Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?
Interpretation
The quote highlights the discrepancy between knowing our moral and spiritual obligations and actually practicing them.
George Whitefield emphasizes the irony that while the duties and teachings of Christianity are widely understood, their implementation in daily life is notably lacking. This observation calls attention to the gap between knowledge and action, suggesting that awareness of our responsibilities does not automatically lead to adherence to them, which encourages self-reflection on personal faith and practice.
In practice
During a sermon on the importance of faith in action.
And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?
God is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls.
If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever.
Whoever reads the gospel with a single eye, and sincere intentions, will find, that our blessed Lord took all opportunities of reminding his disciples that His Kingdom was not of this world; that His doctrine was a doctrine of the Cross; and that their professing themselves to be His followers, would call them to a constant state of voluntary suffering and self-denial.
The Christian world is in a deep sleep; nothing but a loud shout can awaken them out of it!
What could the Lord Jesus Christ have done for you more than he has? Then do not abuse his mercy, but let your time be spent in thinking and talking of the love of Jesus, who was incarnate for us, who was born of a woman, and made under the law, to redeem us from the wrath to come.
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.
There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we donβt know where we are going.
The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself
If we live out of our memory, we're tied to the past and to that which is finite. When we live out of our imagination, _x000D_ we're tied to that which is infinite.
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