Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.
Interpretation
Challenges and difficulties shape strong character and faith.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon emphasizes that true strength of character and faith is forged through adversity. It suggests that encountering significant challenges and trials in life is essential for developing a resilient spirit and greater conviction, highlighting the transformative power of hardship.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles.
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.
It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.
If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart
The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
All is not gold that glitters, as we have often been told; and the adage is verified in your place and my favour; but if what happens does not make us richer, we must bid it welcome, if it makes us wiser.
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