When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.
Interpretation
Overcoming one challenge leads to more, and security can breed complacency that invites danger.
This quote emphasizes the idea that life is filled with continuous challenges and temptations that we must face. Overcoming one temptation does not mean that we can relax, as new challenges will present themselves. Additionally, it highlights the paradoxical nature of security; while it gives us comfort, it can also make us vulnerable if we allow complacency to take hold.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience and facing challenges.
Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.
Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.
He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.
Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing in a Saviour. It is not resolving, it is not complaining, it is not mourning, but believing, that will make thee divinely victorious over that body of sin that to this day is too strong for thee, and that will certainly be thy ruin, if it be not ruined by a hand of faith.
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.
Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it.
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)
Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain
Listen to many, speak to a few.
The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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