Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that scripture, like a lion, is powerful and capable of standing on its own merit without the need for defense.
Charles Spurgeon compares scripture to a lion, emphasizing its inherent strength and truth. Just as a lion does not require defense because of its natural power, scripture is self-evident and can assert its authority without the need for external justification. The quote encourages people to trust in the power of the scripture to speak for itself, rather than attempting to defend it aggressively.
In practice
During a sermon, when discussing the authority of scripture.
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.
Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.
So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.
Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers and try to live in harmony with natural laws and universal principles. Courage is the father of all virtues; we need great courage to lead our lives by correct principles and to have integrity in the moment of choice.
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