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.
It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
Remember, in the vast infinity of life, all is perfect, whole, and complete... and so are you.
Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some unconscious obedience to the all-just laws, so that we become like a still lake of purest crystal and without an effort our depths are revealed to ourselves. . . .
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