In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
Interpretation
A church's holiness directly influences its ability to testify for Christ effectively.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon emphasizes the relationship between the holiness of a church and its effectiveness in spreading the message of Christ. It suggests that the more spiritually pure and committed a congregation is to its values and teachings, the more impactful its witness will be to others, highlighting the importance of integrity and faithfulness in religious testimony.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the role of churches in the community.
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.
I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
If you don't see God in the next person you meet, look no further.
Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction.
How do we get out of our small mind? When we enquire into the core of our existence. What is life? Who am I? This spirit of self-inquiry can awaken something inside you.
I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.
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