Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.
Interpretation
The quote encourages individuals to seek help in restoring their inner harmony when feeling lost or discontented.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon highlights the importance of turning to a higher authority or source of wisdom when one feels spiritually or emotionally out of balance. He suggests that just as a musical instrument needs tuning to produce the right sound, our hearts and souls require guidance and support to achieve harmony and peace. By acknowledging our struggles and seeking assistance, we can rediscover our inner tune and live more fulfilling lives.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal growth.
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 highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about anymore than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks. A good night's sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace.
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.
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