After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
Interpretation
Repentance and faith are closely linked and happen simultaneously.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon emphasizes the intrinsic connection between faith and repentance, suggesting that true faith cannot exist without the acknowledgment of one's faults, which is repentance. He portrays them as inseparable partners in the spiritual journey of a believer, each influencing and completing the other.
In practice
During a church service, a pastor may quote this to underline the importance of repentance alongside faith.
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.
["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.
Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.
Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler's memories, stand up and demand a justification. They require an explanation. They query, 'Who am I? What is my name? Why am I here?
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
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