Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ
Interpretation
For a true Christian, everything is insignificant compared to glorifying Christ.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon emphasizes that a person's devotion to Christ should overshadow all worldly concerns and trivialities. When one truly values their faith, the importance of glorifying Christ becomes paramount, rendering other matters as less meaningful.
In practice
During a sermon, one might use this quote to illustrate the importance of putting Christ first in our lives.
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.
Until we take seriously God's definition of the church and stop just 'having church,' we will not see transformation in our society.
What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much.
What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
Sometimes tears are the glasses that we need to see Jesus.
The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.
When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group
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