Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.
Interpretation
True understanding often comes from experiencing hardships.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon emphasizes that profound truths and insights about God and life are often gained through suffering and adversity. It suggests that without the challenges posed by affliction, one may not fully comprehend or appreciate these important truths, as they need to be 'burned' into one's being through experience.
In practice
This quote can inspire a group discussion about the importance of resilience in a community service meeting.
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.
We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.
In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.
Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.
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