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.
The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.
The last thing to collapse is the surface.
A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings in America?
Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.
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