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“Courteous reader, 'tis said of scripture that it is deep enough for an elephant to swim in, and yet shallow enough for a lamb to wade through.”
“God's truth always agrees with itself.”
“A curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it.”
“When the Word dwells as a familiar friend in the heart to direct, counsel and comfort us, then it is a sign it abides there.”
“The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.”
“One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.”
“The Word of God alone is to be preached, in its perfection and inner consistency. Scripture is the exclusive subject of preaching, the only field in which the preacher is to labour.”
“All in the church may hear the Word of Christ, but few hear Christ in the Word.”
“Too many, even in our nation and city perish and run blindfold into hell, for want of knowledge; and the most are without knowledge, for want of instruction.”
“The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the penitent thief), one that none may despair, and but one that none may presume.”
“For doctrine. Where Scripture hath not a tongue to speak, I must not have an ear to hear.”
“A clear head must be accompanied with a clean heart; saving knowledge is ever a sanctifying knowledge.”
“There are depths in His word where elephants can swim and there are also shallows where lambs can wade.”
“If a man be new-born, he will desire the sincere milk of the word.”
“I wish that souls would read the Scriptures as profitable Scriptures with the intention to profit.”
“One line of the Bible is worth more than all the learning of men.”
“Read the Scripture, not only as a history, but as a love-letter sent to you from God.”
“Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.”
“Remember that it is not hasty reading, but serious meditation on holy and heavenly truths, which makes them prove sweet and profitable to the soul.”
“Let all writers have their due esteem, but compare none of them with the Word of God.”
“Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence. Let Scripture be first and most in your hearts and hands and other books be used as subservient to it.”
“Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.”
“Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.”
“Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think it; otherwise man's heart would never have been compared to fallow ground and God's Word to a plough.”
“Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.”
“The Scripture is the library of the Holy Ghost; it is a pandect of divine knowledge.”
“The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is, because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.”
“Meditation without reading is wrong and bound to err; reading without meditation is barren and fruitless.”
“Be not only attentive in hearing, but retentive after hearing.”
“God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak.”