Those who read fast, reap no more advantage than a bee would by only skimming over the surface of the flower, instead of waiting to penetrate into it, and extract its sweets. Much reading is rather for scholastic subjects, than divine truths.
– Jeanne Guyon –
from Spiritual Progress
We should read the Bible as those who listen to the very speech of God.
– FB Meyer –
from The Way into the Holiest
Blessed Bible! thou art all truth.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from his sermon “The Bible”
It is not the quantity that is read, but the manner of reading, that yields us profit.
– Francois Fenelon and Jeanne Guyon –
from Spiritual Progress
I desire to handle the Word of God so that no man may ever find an excuse in my ministry for his living without Christ.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Where are you saturating?
– Jeremiah Bolich –
One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it and believe it.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Beware of reasoning about God’s Word. Obey it.
– Oswald Chambers –
from Disciples Indeed
We have to learn to rely on the Holy Spirit because He alone gives the Word of God life. All our efforts to pump up faith in the Word of God is without quickening, without illumination. You reason to yourself and say, “Now God says this and I am going to believe it,” and you believe it, and re-believe it, and re-re-believe it, and nothing happens, simply because the vital power that makes the words living is not there.
– Oswald Chambers –
from Biblical Ethics