He who is his own guide is guided by a fool.
Interpretation
Relying solely on oneself for guidance can lead to misguided decisions.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon emphasizes the importance of seeking wisdom and counsel from others rather than relying only on one's own judgment. It suggests that self-guidance without external input can result in poor choices, as one's own perspective may be limited and flawed.
In practice
In a discussion about making important life choices, this quote can highlight the value of seeking advice.
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.
Most people talk about fear of the unknown, but if there is anything to fear, it is the known.
I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.
Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.
He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place.
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