Quotes on the Word of God
The Bible as lamp and food — reading, loving and living by the Word.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
14 quotations from 6 writers, each traced to the exact paragraph it comes from.
Andrew Murray 4
The effect of the word on the heart is in most cases not immediate.
The word is nothing if it is not kept, obeyed, or done.
Throughout Scripture, in the life of every saint, of God’s own Son, throughout the history of God’s Church, God is, first of all, a prayer-hearing God.
The chief thing is, not to know what God has said we must do, but that God Himself says it to us.
Charles H. Spurgeon 1
You may read the Bible continuously, and yet never learn anything by it, unless it is illuminated by the Spirit; and then the words shine forth like stars.
Gareth Evans 1
To every weapon of Satan they have an answer in the Word of God.
George Müller 4
Do not men believe that God means what he appears plainly to have asserted?
How precious it is, even for this life, to act according to the word of God!
We may therefore profitably meditate, with God’s blessing, though we are ever so weak spiritually; nay, the weaker we are, the more we need meditation for the strengthening of our inner man.
Faith has to do with the word of God,—rests upon the written word of God; but there is no promise that he will pay our debts.
Hudson Taylor 2
The Bible is a supernatural book, a divine revelation: the Holy Spirit is the supernatural, the divine Guide to its meaning.
The child of God has no need of the counsel of the ungodly; if he love and study God's Word it will make him wiser than all such counsellors.
Jonathan Edwards 2
Holy affections are not heat without light; but evermore arise from the information of the understanding, some spiritual instruction that the mind receives, some light or actual knowledge.
We may often observe it, that the Holy Spirit who indited the Scriptures, often takes notice of little things, minute occurrences, that do but remotely relate to Jesus Christ.