Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit who consoles.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the continuous evolution of our character and the dual role of our inner spirit in both guiding and comforting us.
Charles Spurgeon's quote reflects on the idea that each passing day contributes to the formation of our eternal selves, suggesting that our daily choices and actions shape our long-term identity. It highlights the importance of self-awareness, as the same inner spirit that may convict us of our shortcomings can also provide solace and encouragement as we seek to grow and improve.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-improvement, one might refer to this quote to inspire the audience to reflect on their daily actions.
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.
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently they can do it, but far worse, to see how much faster and more efficiently they are than a party which did the same climb a few days before. The climb becomes secondary, no more important than a racetrack. Man is pitted against man.
The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.
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