Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.
Interpretation
True repentance goes hand in hand with the desire for holiness.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon emphasizes the intrinsic connection between genuine repentance and the pursuit of holiness. He suggests that if one is truly repentant for their wrongdoings, it will naturally lead them to seek a more righteous and holy life, indicating that these two elements are inseparable in the journey of faith and moral growth.
In practice
In a sermon about personal transformation, this quote can inspire the congregation to seek forgiveness and strive for a holy life.
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.
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Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.
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When you make contact with your Higher Self, you'll have the support of Nature, which will allow for the manifestation of all you desire
Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.
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