The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.
Interpretation
A deeper understanding of Christ leads to a rejection of shallow beliefs.
Charles Spurgeon's quote suggests that as one grows in knowledge and understanding of Christ, one becomes dissatisfied with only superficial or cursory views of Him. This implies that a genuine relationship and study of spiritual matters deepen one's faith and lead to a more profound appreciation of the complexities and depths of Christ's character and teachings.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the importance of deepening one's spiritual journey.
Amusement should be used to do us good βlike a medicineβ: 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.
I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.
We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night β every night, every night β the moment I feigned sleep.
The good traveler has the gift of surprise.
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows β it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
Traveler, there is no path, the path must be_x000D_ forged as you walk.
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