There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.
Interpretation
The quote critiques individuals who neglect their spiritual readings, suggesting that their ignorance leads to negative consequences.
Charles Spurgeon's quote highlights the irony of people who possess Bibles that are rarely opened, indicating a lack of engagement with the teachings contained within. By stating that there is enough dust on them to write 'damnation,' he emphasizes the serious repercussions of spiritual neglect and the importance of actively seeking knowledge and understanding from religious texts.
In practice
In a sermon about the importance of scripture in spiritual growth.
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.
If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of play, and the ability to instill in the boys a desire to win.
I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
A mother is a school. Empower her; and you empower a great nation.
Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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