Some More Quotes on the Value of Bible Reading
"We are intelligent about everything else in the world. Why not be intelligent about our religion? We read newspapers, magazines, novels, and all kinds of books, and listen to the radio by the hour [and we may add internet, movies, and TV to all that]."
"Individual direct contact with God's Word is the principal means of Christian growth. all leaders of spiritual power in Christian history have been devoted readers of the Bible.
The Bible is the Book we live by. Bible reading is the means by which we learn, and keep fresh in our minds, the ideas that mold our lives. Our lives are the product of our thoughts. To live right, we need to think right."
"Our attitude toward the Bible is a pretty sure indication of our attitude toward Christ. If we love a person, we love to read about him, do we not?"
[On taking even "15 or 20 minutes a day" to read the Bible]. "Can't find time? Well, it is important enough to take time. 1 minute a day, or 3 minutes a day, for religious devotion, is child's play. If we are Christians, why not take our religion seriously? Why play at it? Let us not fool ourselves. We CAN find time for the things we WANT to find time for."
"...the great body of our church members treat the Bible as if it were a mere side-issue in their lives."
"I marvel that Church People are so indifferent to, and neglectful of, the Book that tells them about their Saviour. But I marvel more that Church LEADERS are doing so little about it. Unquestionably the most fatal weakness of the present day Church is the lack of leadership in the pulpit on this one point of guiding and leading its people into the one habit that is the source and basis of everything that the church exists to accomplish in its people."
Henry Halley
2 comments:
I think that we need to be much more dilligent in reading the Bible. If we are not reading then how are we going to grow? The Bible is the way that we see how we need to change. So how will we change if we are not reading? I think I just repeated myself. oh well. bye you guys!
Alli is so right. Even the fact that I'm online right now show's what I'm really interested in. (not necessarily referring to TB as being what I'm on for.) It's a real challenge to me to think, "What do others see in me as something that really drives me?" It is really such a chalenge to me personally.
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