To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe
Interpretation
The Bible is a profound expression of God's thoughts, evoking respect and reverence.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon emphasizes the distinction between the Bible as a text and God as an entity. He expresses that while the Bible is ultimately a representation of God's voice, it is not to be equated with God Himself. The awe he feels when engaging with the scripture reflects the deep respect afforded to divine teachings, highlighting the transformative power of words in connecting humanity to the divine.
In practice
In a sermon, one might say, 'As Spurgeon said, to engage with the Bible is to hear God's voice with reverence.'
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.
I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Racism is not just slavery and Jim Crow. It is the daily violence that is enacted on our communities each and every day we live in this White supremacist society.
The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.
. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
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