No one expects to reach the heights of success in education, the arts, finance or athletics without a great deal of hard work and perseverance. We often use the expression “You have to really want it!” Growing in our faith requires the same. Christianity is based on a revelation from God that is filled with information that the natural mind could never have imagined. The wealth of this knowledge will never be mastered without diligent effort.
– William Wilberforce –
The Word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from Council for Christian Workers
Whatever subject I preach, I do not stop until I reach the saviour, the Lord Jesus, for in Him are all things.
– Charles Spurgeon –
The more you love the Scriptures, the firmer will be your faith. There is little backsliding when people love the Scriptures.
– DL Moody –
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
– Hudson Taylor –
Again I say, There is all the difference in the world between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
What could we do without the Book
That God gave us to read?
No more than any farmer
Who hadn’t any seed!
– C T Studd –
It is of no use trying to sew with the silken thread of the gospel unless we pierce a way for it with the sharp, needle of the law.
– Robbie Flockheart –
Charles H Spurgeon Sermon Conversion as Our Aim
It will not profit us to read about Christ, if we are not joined to Him by living faith. Once more then let us test our religion be this question: “What think we of Christ?”
– JC Ryle –
from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels