God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.
Interpretation
True praise to God requires both vocal expression and heartfelt devotion.
Charles Spurgeon's quote emphasizes the importance of sincerity in worship. It suggests that simply verbalizing praise is not sufficient; one's heart and emotions must be genuinely engaged in the act of exultation to truly honor God.
In practice
A pastor might use this quote during a sermon to emphasize the importance of heartfelt worship.
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.
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
My father was a man of principle who found his principles confirmed in the unremitting failure which they brought on him.
Now, race is one of those topics in America that makes people extraordinarily uncomfortable. You bring it up at a dinner party or in a workplace environment, it is literally the conversational equivalent of touching the third rail.
How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top
I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.
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