Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
– John Wesley –
Knowledge – Understanding
July 20, 2015
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 –
March 20, 2015
The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.
– DL Moody –
March 19, 2015
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 –
February 19, 2015
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
February 15, 2015
Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
– John Wesley –
December 28, 2014
I was thinking, the other day, how different Christ is from all the friends and helpers that we have. They bring us good things, but Jesus gives us Himself. He does not merely give us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption, but He Himself is made of God all these things to us! Hence we can never do without Him. When very ill, you are pleased to see the doctor, but when you are getting well you say to yourself, “I shall be glad to see the back of the good man, for that will be a sure sign that I am off the sick list.” Ah, but when Jesus heals a soul, he wants to see Jesus more than ever! Our longing for the constant company of our Lord is the sign that we are getting well! He who longs for Jesus to abide with Him, forever, is healed of his plague! We never outgrow Christ—we only grow to hunger more and more!
– Charles Spurgeon –
November 26, 2014
Truly, I am content with what God has given me in all points, except that I long for more of Christ! I could sit down happy if I knew that my portion in the house and in the field would never grow—but I am famished to have more of my Lord!
– Charles Spurgeon –
November 19, 2014
So, Beloved, the Holy Spirit is with us and when we take His Book and begin to read and want to know what it means, we must ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the meaning. He will not work a miracle, but He will elevate our minds and He will suggest to us thoughts which will lead us on, by their natural relation, the one to the other, till at last we come to the pith and marrow of His Divine Instruction. Seek, then, very earnestly the guidance of the Holy Spirit, for if the very soul of reading is the understanding of what we read, then we must, in prayer, call upon the Holy Spirit to unlock the secret mysteries of the Inspired Word.
– Charles Spurgeon –