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.
Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.
No one knows enough to be a pessimist
Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those - in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed.
You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.
So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat.
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