The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.
Interpretation
The truth of God's Word is powerful and does not require human defense; it can stand on its own.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon uses the metaphor of a lion to illustrate the inherent strength and power of the Word of God. Just as a lion does not need defending because of its own power, the message of God is robust enough to prove its truth, and believers do not need to forcefully defend it. Instead, they should share it, trusting that its inherent truth will resonate and protect itself against challenges.
In practice
In a sermon about faith and scripture, one might reference this quote to emphasize the power of the Bible.
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 greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.
If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.
Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.
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