I cannot agree with those who say that they have 'new truth' to teach. The two words seem to me to contradict each other; that _x000D_ which is new is not true. It is the old that is true, for truth is as old as God himself.
Interpretation
Spurgeon argues that true truths are timeless and not new revelations.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon expresses skepticism towards claims of 'new truth,' suggesting that genuine truth is eternal and unchanging. He posits that what is considered new cannot be truly valid, as it contradicts the nature of truth, which he asserts is timeless and has existed since the beginning of creation.
In practice
This quote could be used during a lecture on the nature of truth in philosophy classes.
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.
Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.
I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.
Misogyny runs deeper than religion.
All men would be tyrants if they could.
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