The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.
Interpretation
The resurrection is a historically significant event, supported by strong evidence compared to other historical occurrences.
Charles Spurgeon's quote emphasizes the pivotal and well-documented nature of the resurrection, asserting that its historical credibility surpasses that of any other event recorded throughout history. By positioning the resurrection as a fact with substantial evidence, Spurgeon calls attention to its theological and historical importance, inviting individuals to consider the implications of this event in the broader context of their beliefs and understanding of history.
In practice
During a sermon, to reinforce the truth of the resurrection as a historical fact.
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.
We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom.
I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless; yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.
As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
The day nothing turns you on - you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.
Every person you meet is waging his or her own war against a callous universe that is plotting against them.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
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