Bible
The Word did
everything
Let it
saturate your heart
- C. H. Spurgeon
The
dignity and glory of the Authorized Version (KJV) - D. Martyn
Lloyd-Jones
The Word did everything
In short, I will preach it, teach it, write
it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must
come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I
opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with
force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word;
otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept , or drank
Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word
so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor
ever inflicted such losses upon it. I
did nothing; the Word did everything.
- Martin Luther
Bathe in a text of
Scripture
Some people like to read so many chapters every day. I would
not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay
my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than I would,
as it were, rinse my hand in several chapters. Oh, to
bathe in a text of Scripture,
and to let it be sucked up into your very soul, till it
saturates your heart! The man who has read many books is not
always a learned man; but he is a strong man who has read
three or four books over and over till he has mastered them.
He knows something. He has a grasp of thoughts and
expressions, and these will build up his life. Set your
heart upon God’s word! It is the only way to know it
thoroughly: let your whole nature be plunged into it as
cloth into a dye.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Taught that We May Teach
