The world is not a play-ground; it is a school-room. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love.
– Henry Drummond –
Knowledge – Understanding
Understanding the Bible – Oswald Chambers
There are tremendous thoughts expressed in God’s Book, and unless we have learned to rely on the Holy Spirit we shall say, “Oh, I shall never understand that.” But the Holy Spirit understands it, and as we recognize that and rely on Him, He will work it out, whether we consciously understand or not.
– Oswald Chambers –
from the book If You Will Ask
Aligning Our Thinking to Scripture – Elisabeth Elliot
The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows our own crookedness. We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Seek God – Winkie Pratney
To deliberately seek or glorify any form of guidance is an outright invitation to spiritual deception, we are not to seek or specify how God should speak, but only seek Him in any way that He wishes to make Himself known.
– Winkie Pratney –
Union and Dependence Upon the Spirit – William Law
Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it – yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon him.
– William Law –
You Are Responsible for What’s in Your Mind – Frank E. Gaebelein
As a Christian, I am responsible for the furniture of my mind.
– Frank E. Gaebelein –
The Posture to See More – DL Moody
The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe.
– DL Moody –
Hungry for God – Leonard Ravenhill
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Teaching of the Holy Spirit – JC Ryle
Above all let us humbly pray for the teaching of the Holy Spirit. He alone can apply truth to our hearts, and make us profit by what we read.
– JC Ryle –
from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, 1856