Christ did not die to make his Father loving, but because his Father is loving: the atoning blood is the outflow of the very heart of God toward us.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that Christ's sacrifice is a demonstration of God's inherent love rather than a means to create it.
Charles Spurgeon's quote underscores the belief that the love of God is intrinsic and eternal, and that Christ's death was an expression of this love rather than a catalyst for it. It suggests that the act of atonement was a reflection of God's heart and character, demonstrating how deeply He cares for humanity.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a church service to illustrate the nature of God's love.
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.
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.
Slip into the gap, have the desire, detach from the outcome, and let the universe take care of the details.
If your ego starts out, "I am important, I am big, I am special," you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.
The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero.
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