He is truly great in who hath power over himself.
Interpretation
True greatness comes from self-control and mastery over one's own actions and emotions.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon highlights the importance of self-discipline as a key aspect of greatness. It suggests that those who can govern their own desires and impulses are truly powerful and admirable, as such self-control reflects inner strength and moral integrity.
In practice
In a motivational speech about achieving personal goals, one could use this quote to inspire self-discipline.
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.
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.
Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.
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