To get the full flavor of an herb, it must be pressed between the fingers, so it is the same with the Scriptures; the more familiar they become, the more they reveal their hidden treasures and yield their indescribable riches.
Category: Quotes
Words of wisdom, philosophy, encouragement and humor from various sources.
Quoted: Robert Colier on Vision
Vision… it reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
Quoted: Dr. James Stalker on Scripture
Every one who knows what it is to give a lesson or an address occasionaly on Scripture is aware how the verse or paragraph on which he has had to prepare himself to speak stands out in his Bible afterwards from the rest of the text, as if its letters were embossed on the page.… Continue reading Quoted: Dr. James Stalker on Scripture
Quoted: Significance Of The Bible
THE BIBLE contains the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the doom of sinners and the happiness of believers. Its doctrines are holy, its precepts are binding, its histories are true, and its decisions are immutable. Read it to be wise, believe it to be safe and practice it to… Continue reading Quoted: Significance Of The Bible
Quoted: Jay Jones On Obedience To Ministry
“Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.” The first should not exist in the absence of the second.
Quoted: T. DeWitt Talmage on Jesus’ Birth
Glory be to God that Jesus came from throne to manger, that we might rise from manger to throne, and that all the gates are open and that the door of heaven that once swung this way to let Jesus out, now swings the other way to let us in. From the book, ‘From Manger… Continue reading Quoted: T. DeWitt Talmage on Jesus’ Birth
Quoted: Benjamin Franklin on Death
As a young man in 1728, Franklin had composed his own mock epitaph which read: The Body of B. Franklin Printer; Like the Cover of an old Book, Its Contents torn out, And stript of its Lettering and Gilding, Lies here, Food for Worms. But the Work shall not be wholly lost: For it will,… Continue reading Quoted: Benjamin Franklin on Death
Quoted: Judson Cornwall on True Praise and Worship
Whenever the method of worship becomes more important than the Person of worship, we have already prostituted our worship. There are entire congregations who worship praise and praise worship but who have not yet learned to praise and worship God in Jesus Christ.
Quoted: R. Kent Smith on Preaching
There are days it is all flesh and faith… Then there are those that HE arrives and makes us look really good. The secret is… Be there both days
Quoted: E. M. Bounds on Prayer
Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God’s work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.