That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.
Interpretation
Religion that demands little from a person often holds little value.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon emphasizes the importance of dedication and sacrifice in religion. It suggests that true faith and spiritual growth require effort, commitment, and sometimes personal costs, implying that a religion without such demands may not provide meaningful value or transformation in one's life.
In practice
In a sermon on commitment to personal beliefs.
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.
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.
I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.
'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.
I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.
The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
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