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
It is a grand thing to have a man with whom God is, to entrust one’s business to.
– Andrew Murray –
Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please God, that perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.
– Brother Lawrence –
It is always unpleasant to be spoken against, and forsaken, and lied about, and to stand alone. But there is no help for it. The cup which our Master drank must be drunk by His disciples.
– JC Ryle –
from his book Holiness
Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of God, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please.
– Brother Lawrence –
from The Practice of the Presence of God
We should read the Bible as those who listen to the very speech of God.
– FB Meyer –
from The Way into the Holiest
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
– CS Lewis –
Stubbornness and self-love give way to beauty in one who has been broken by God.
– Watchman Nee –
from The Release of the Spirit
Blessed Bible! thou art all truth.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from his sermon “The Bible”