You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that human nature is inherently flawed and cannot be adequately captured by mere words.
Charles Spurgeon's quote emphasizes the idea that the true nature of humanity is so deeply flawed and complex that any attempt to criticize or slander it falls short of reality. He implies that the actual shortcomings and vices of people far exceed what could be expressed through language, pointing to the deep-seated issues within human behavior that are often ignored or underestimated.
In practice
In a speech about the complexities of human behavior.
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.
To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing anyone.
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.
I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.
Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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