He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.
Interpretation
Finding peace and joy comes from rising above worldly troubles and connecting with the divine.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon suggests that true happiness and a bright outlook on life can be achieved by transcending the worries and distractions of the material world and fostering a relationship with God. It emphasizes the importance of spiritual connection and the ability to gain perspective on life's challenges.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
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.
Your house is your larger body.
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.
The evils that arise to us from the structure of the material universe are neither trivial nor few, yet the history of political society sufficiently shows that man is, of all other beings, the most formidable enemy to man.
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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