There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.
Interpretation
God's mercy is vast and immeasurable, extending forgiveness and blessings regardless of one's sins.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon emphasizes the boundless nature of God's mercy. It suggests that no matter how significant a person's sins may be or the time they have spent away from God, His forgiveness is always available. The imagery of 'great sinners' receiving 'great favours' portrays the idea that God's love and mercy transcend human shortcomings and limitations, offering a pathway to redemption and joy in the divine presence.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the nature of forgiveness, a pastor might reference this quote to inspire hope among the congregation.
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.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.
Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.
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