Remember that it is not a hasty reading, but serious meditation on holy and heavenly truths, that makes them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the mere touching of the flower by the bee that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time on the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove to be the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.
– Thomas Brooks –
It was God’s Word that made us; is it any wonder that His Word should sustain us?
– Charles Spurgeon –
God’s Word and God’s Spirit always agree and are of the same mind. The Spirit of God who gave the Holy Scripture cannot say one thing here and another in your heart. That would be to bear witness against himself. And how can a divided kingdom stand?
– Ralph Venning –
from Learning in Christ’s School, 1675
We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Take the words of Jesus and let them become the Supreme Court of the Gospel to you.
– John G. Lake –
Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
– JC Ryle –
It is the students of the Bible and they alone, who will find it a weapon ready in hand in the day of battle.
– JC Ryle –
It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit … will bring us to Him.
– CS Lewis –
Afflictions are the golden key by which the Lord opens the rich treasure of His word to his people’s souls.
– Thomas Brooks –
1608–1680