Praise is the rehearsal for our eternal song.
Interpretation
Praise prepares us for a deeper appreciation of life and existence.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon suggests that praise is not only an expression of gratitude and recognition but also a practice for cultivating a sense of joy and purpose. It implies that embracing praise in our lives can prepare us for greater spiritual experiences and a harmonious existence, akin to a beautiful song that resonates eternally.
In practice
In a speech about gratitude and the importance of acknowledging others.
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.
When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.
Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.
Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.
Needing approval is like saying 'your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself'.
To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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