We cannot all ARGUE, but we can all PRAY; We cannot all be LEADERS, but we can all be PLEADERS; We cannot all be mighty in RHETORIC, but we can all be prevalent in PRAYER.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that while not everyone can take on leadership roles or engage in persuasive arguments, everyone has the ability to pray and advocate for others.
Charles Spurgeon's quote emphasizes the idea that not everyone possesses the same skills or roles in society, such as arguing or leading. However, it highlights the universal capacity for prayer and advocacy, which can be powerful tools in support of others. In this context, the quote encourages individuals to recognize their potential for influence through prayer and compassionate support, regardless of their formal position or abilities.
In practice
During a speech at a community gathering.
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 truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.
With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.
A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
Stay diagnostic even as you take action.
What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make your bets on people.
Never ask your employees to do something you wouldn't be willing to do yourself.
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