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.
I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.
Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.
I know from first-hand experience that separating transgender students from their peers can cause many to leave school, hide who they are, or even do the unthinkable.
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience...was disparaged.
My only claim is that not all talented people should go to college and not all talented people should do the exact same thing.
Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!
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