I went to hear Mr. Moody with no other idea than to have something to laugh at. I knew he was no scholar, and I felt sure I could find many flaws in his argument. But I found I could not get at the man. He stood there hiding behind the Bible and just fired one Bible text after another at me till they went home to my heart straight as bullets from a rifle. I tell you, Moody’s power is in the way he has his Bible at the tip of his tongue.
– Anonymous Convert –
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. (Matthew 7:7-8)
It is significant that the Lord thought it necessary to repeat the truth in so many forms. It proves that He knows our hearts, how doubt and distrust toward God are natural to us, and how easily we are inclined to rest in prayer as a religious duty without expecting an answer.
– Andrew Murray –
from Teach Me To Pray
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 –
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
– John Wesley –
I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.
– DL Moody –
The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.
– DL Moody –
The Word of God is plain in itself; and if there appear any obscurity in one place, the Holy Ghost, which is never contrarious to Himself, explains the same more clearly in other places.
– John Knox –
The paths of wisdom are not like walks in the garden, which we make use of for diversion only, and an amusement; but like tracks in a great road, which we press forward in with care and pains, as a traveler in his journey, till we come to journey’s end.
– Matthew Henry –
from The Pleasantness of a Religious Life, 1714
Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
– John Wesley –