If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the power of prayer and the grace that overlooks our imperfections.
Charles Spurgeon highlights the belief that when one approaches prayer with sincerity, the shortcomings or faults in that prayer are forgiven due to divine grace. It suggests that the act of reaching out to a higher power is more important than the perfection of the words spoken during prayer, as grace encompasses our flaws.
In practice
In a sermon on the importance of faith, you might quote Spurgeon to emphasize that God's grace covers our imperfections.
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.
May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives.
Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.
A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.
The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God?
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