Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.
Interpretation
Avoid getting lost in overly complex discussions that don't lead to spiritual growth.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon warns against the dangers of fixating on intricate metaphysical discussions that distract from genuine spiritual development. It emphasizes the importance of focusing on practical faith over abstract theorizing, suggesting that an obsession with such subtleties can lead to stagnation or 'spiritual suicide.'
In practice
In a sermon, one might say, 'Let us not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.'
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.
The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much.
When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.
All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say.
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