The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
—Søren Kierkegaard
All supposed leadings of God should be tested by the Word of God. The Bible is God’s revealed will. Any leading that contradicts the plain teaching of the Bible is certainly not the leading of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit does not contradict Himself.
—R. A. Torrey
The Bible has a way of putting more in a single sentence than other writers can put in a whole book. Yet there are some who would tell us that the Bible is no more God’s book than other books. Either they have not read the Bible, or they have read it with their eyes closed.
—R. A. Torrey
I have found that the man who believes in the Bible always comes out ahead in the long run, and that the man who is too wise and too advanced to believe the Word of God come out behind, in the long run, every time.
—R. A. Torrey
“A dusty Bible ought never to be in your house.”
“We must stand by our Bible, never giving way.”
— Charles Spurgeon
When you read, observe what you read. Observe how things come in. Take notice of the drift of the discourse, and compare one scripture with another.
—Jonathan Edwards
Faith . . . reaches out in a single act to the person of Christ as well as to Scripture. It embraces Christ as Savior and Scripture as the word of God.
—Herman Bavinck
“Children can learn the Bible as soon as they are capable of understanding anything.”
— Charles Spurgeon
[Christianity] bases upon the Bible both its thinking and its life. Liberalism… is founded upon the shifting emotions of sinful men.
—J. Gresham Machen
If you die in your sins, there is not in the Bible one ray of hope to show that there will be opportunity to repent hereafter. Now is the accepted time of salvation.
—D. L. Moody
Christianity is founded upon the Bible. It bases upon the Bible both its thinking and its life. Liberalism on the other hand is founded upon the shifting emotions of sinful men.
—J. Gresham Machen
“A man may go to College, he may learn all about the letter of Scripture, but he is no minister of God if he has not sat at [Christ’s] feet, and learned of him[…]”
– Charles Spurgeon
I suspect I have been allotting habitually too little time to religious exercises, as private devotion, religious meditation, Scripture reading, etc. Hence I am lean, and cold, and hard.
—William Wilberforce
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
—Søren Kierkegaard
There is a tremendously uplifting power in joy. Perhaps that is why there is so much about it in the Bible.
—Amy Carmichael
I look with humble hope to the promises of Scripture. Ho everyone that thirsts, etc.
—William Wilberforce
I humbly hope I look up with faith as the only way of obtaining all spiritual blessings, renouncing any other plea but Christs’s merits and the Scripture promises.
—William Wilberforce
We must get on our knees before our open Bible & allow the Holy Spirit to break our hearts & create a passion for Christ as we’ve never had
—AW Tozer
People desire to make God a dead God, in order to be able to deal with him according to their pleasure. But the Holy Scripture calls to man: You have gone astray; God exists. He is the true God; he lives, now and forever.
—Herman Bavinck
To acquire knowledge, Scripture refers man not to his own reason but to God’s revelation in all his works. Lift up your eyes, and see the one who has created all things; [lift them up] to the teaching and the testimony; otherwise, they shall perish.
—Herman Bavinck
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.
—Isaac Newton
The Bible has a way of putting more in a single sentence than other writers can put in a whole book. Yet there are some who would tell us that the Bible is no more God’s book than other books. Either they have not read the Bible, or they have read it with their eyes closed.
—R. A. Torrey
Still good advice (whether pocket Bibles or phones):
In everyone’s life many minutes each day are lost, waiting for meals, riding on trains, etc. … Carry a pocket Bible with you, and save those golden moments by putting them to the very best use, listening to the voice of God.
—R. A. Torrey
We live in a day in which false doctrine abounds on every hand and the only Christian who is safe from being led into error is the one who studies his Bible for himself daily.
—R. A. Torrey
The soul’s proper food is found in one book, the Bible.
—R. A. Torrey
Unite with a church where they believe in the Bible and where they preach the Bible. Avoid the churches where words are spoken, open or veiled, that have a tendency to undermine your faith in the Bible as a reliable revelation from God, the only rule of faith and practice.
—R. A. Torrey
I know that some of our knees are a bit old, but I still thought this interesting.
“Oftentimes, it helps us to a realization of the presence of God to read the Bible on our knees. The Bible became a new book to me when I took to reading it on my knees.”
—R. A. Torrey
All supposed leadings of God should be tested by the Word of God. The Bible is God’s revealed will. Any leading that contradicts the plain teaching of the Bible is certainly not the leading of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit does not contradict Himself.
—R. A. Torrey
People tell us the Bible is full of things that are impossible to believe. I know of nothing else so impossible to believe as that a holy God should love such individuals as you and me, as the Bible says He does. But as impossible as it is to believe, it is true.
—R. A. Torrey