Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!
Interpretation
The quote expresses a desire to view the world solely through the lens of faith and the suffering of Christ.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon conveys a profound longing to immerse himself entirely in the teachings and sacrifices of Jesus Christ. By desiring to have the 'cross painted on his eyeballs,' he wishes to see everything in life filtered through the lens of Christ's passion, suggesting that the understanding of worldly experiences should be deeply rooted in spirituality and faith. Spurgeon emphasizes the importance of aligning one's perception with divine love and sacrifice, elevating the impact of faith in everyday life.
In practice
During a sermon about the importance of viewing life through faith, I shared this quote to emphasize the message.
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.
There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.
Man has always been his own most vexing problem.
Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds, unable to fly far from their own shores. To provide resting places for them, where they can coal and repair, would be one of the first duties of a government proposing to itself the development of the power of the nation at sea.
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
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