C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

It is an ill sign when a man dares not look a Scripture in the face, and an evidence of brazen impudence when he tries to make it mean something less condemnatory of his sins, and endeavours to prove it to be less sweeping in its demands. TD50:17 Some want to shape the Scriptures to their creed, and they get a very nice square creed too, and trim the Bible most dexterously: it is wonderful how they do it, but I would rather have a crooked creed and a straight Bible, than I would try to twist the Bible round to suit what I believe. 1210.6 There can never be any justification for twisting Scripture, in order to wrench it out of an enemy’s hand. 1436.542 There are some commentaries that seem to have been written on the principle of twisting the text into the shape that the commentator approved, and I am afraid we have all had a share in attempts to make the Word of God say what we think it ought to have said according to our system of divinity. 3090.207