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.
In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.
Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.
A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well
For me, I was always the only woman in my cohort, first as a mechanical engineering undergraduate student, then as a chemical engineering graduate student. There were very few women getting degrees in those fields at the time. My role models were men - great men role models.
However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
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