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.
It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.
When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been happening with drugs?
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junky time to start. A sick junky has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait.
I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
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