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.
Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.
She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore.
Beware of finding what you're looking for._x000D_ _x000D_ A favorite aphorism he often used.
I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.
We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. "It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering?
Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.
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