Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.
Interpretation
The true value of the Creator becomes evident when we realize the lack of fulfillment in worldly things.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon suggests that the inherent emptiness of material possessions and worldly achievements can lead to a deeper appreciation for the Creator. It implies that recognizing the transient nature of life and its offerings allows individuals to understand and value spirituality and faith more profoundly, emphasizing that true fulfillment lies beyond the physical realm.
In practice
This quote could be used in a sermon to emphasize the importance of faith over material concerns.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.
Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.
If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?
I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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