If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the immense value of saving even one individual, suggesting that true fulfillment comes from making a meaningful impact, regardless of the scale.
Charles Spurgeon's quote highlights the profound worth of a single human soul, suggesting that the efforts and sacrifices made in the pursuit of helping others are justified by the difference one life can make. It advocates for the value of individual impact over collective achievement, reinforcing the idea that true success lies in the ability to positively change or save at least one person’s life.
In practice
Use this quote in a motivational speech about community service.
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.
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Ponder the significance of the responsibility the Lord has given to us. The Lord has counseled, "Let the solemnities of eternity rest upon your minds." (D&C 43:34.) You cannot do that when your minds are preoccupied with the cares of the world.
Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.
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