The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the concepts of repentance and humility in the Christian faith.
Charles Spurgeon's quote reflects the importance of repentance and self-awareness in Christian teaching. It suggests that true Christians often find themselves in a state of humility and reflection, recognizing their need for forgiveness and divine grace at the foot of the cross, which symbolizes the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. This posture is both a physical and spiritual acknowledgment of one's shortcomings and the path to redemption.
In practice
Use this quote in a sermon about the importance of humility in 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.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
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.
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
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