Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.
Interpretation
Focus on spreading faith rather than engaging in arguments about it.
This quote emphasizes the importance of actively promoting one’s faith in Christ rather than getting embroiled in debates or discussions that may detract from the core message of Christianity. It suggests that the ultimate goal should be to bring attention to Christ and the values He represents, maintaining a focus on the cross as a symbol of sacrifice and redemption.
In practice
In a church sermon to motivate congregants to share their faith.
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.
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.
If I hear about a tsunami that hit Asia, hundreds of people have lost their lives, and you see it and you hear about it, but you still brush your teeth, still have to go on with your day. But let you get information about one person who you're close to or you're intimate with, it has an almost paralyzing effect.
Wood feeds the fire which burns it.
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.
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