Emulate the tiny ant; be an ant of God. Listen to the word of God and hide it in your heart. Collect plenty of food during the happy days of your spiritual summers. You will then be able to endure the difficult days of temptations during the winters of your soul.
– Augustine –
354 – 430 AD
The whole Scripture doth principally aim at this thing, that we should not doubt, but that we should hope, that we should trust, that we should believe, that God is a merciful, a bountiful, a gracious, and a patient God to his people.
– Martin Luther –
1483-1546
I have read the Bible through a hundred times in order, and every time with increasing joy. Whenever I have started afresh it seemed like a new book to me.
– George Müller –
As the smallest dewdrop on the meadow at night has a star sleeping in its bosom, so the most insignificant passage of Scripture has in it a shining truth.
– Thomas De Witt Talmage –
Do not expect ever to exhaust the full meaning of Scripture. A supernatural God must have a supernatural Book. Finite minds cannot grasp the infinite. That is one reason why men who know the Bible best find it ever new.
– DL Moody –
Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray.
– Robert Murray McCheyne –
It shall greatly help thee to understand Scripture if thou markest
not only what is spoken or written
but of whom
and to whom
with what words
at what time
where
to what intent
with what circumstances
considering what goeth before
and what followeth.
– John Wycliffe –
Don’t settle only for spiritual food that’s been “predigested” by others. Experience the joy of discovering biblical insights firsthand through your own Bible study!
– Donald Whitney –
from Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
The Bible is one book, written by one Author, with one subject: Jesus Christ and the salvation God … provides through Him.
– Alistair Begg –