If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.
Interpretation
To foster spiritual renewal, we must hold the Word of God in high esteem.
Charles Spurgeon's quote emphasizes the importance of valuing and respecting the teachings of the Word of God as a foundation for spiritual revivals. He suggests that true renewal in faith and community begins with a profound reverence for sacred texts, which serve as a guide and inspiration for believers.
In practice
During a church sermon, a pastor may use this quote to inspire the congregation to engage more deeply with 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.
In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.
Until we take seriously God's definition of the church and stop just 'having church,' we will not see transformation in our society.
The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases - or ever has released at any moment in History - a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day - and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.
Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
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