The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.
Interpretation
Our spiritual vitality hinges on the importance we assign to the Bible in our lives.
George Muller's quote emphasizes the profound connection between one's spiritual well-being and the role that the Bible plays in one's daily life. It suggests that the deeper we engage with biblical teachings and incorporate them into our thoughts and actions, the more robust our spiritual life will be. Thus, the Bible acts as a guiding force, influencing our beliefs, actions, and emotional health.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the importance of faith, one might reference this quote to illustrate how scripture guides spiritual growth.
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.
The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.
The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.
The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst He smites with the one hand, He supports with the other.
I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.
If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.
That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.
Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme non-dual Self. Full Awakening is the eventual ceasing of all the mental impressions of being an ego.
Although believers by nature are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.
I don't think most people are aware of the exotic and extreme tools at the disposal of the most powerful and wealthy men of America when they are bent at silencing accusations against them.
Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.
There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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