BIBLE
Never be afraid of your Bibles. BA175
Old-fashioned believers could give you chapter and verse for what they believed; but
how few of such remain! GF45
If you wish to know God you must know his word; if you wish to perceive his power
you must see how he worketh by his word; if you wish to know his purpose before it
is actually brought to pass you can only discover it by his word. 1607.377
Now, mark this: by this shall you know whether you are a child of God, or not; by the
respect that you have to your Father’s Word. If you have small respect for that Word,
the evidences of a bastard are upon you. 1880.40
To me the Bible is not God, but it is God’s voice, and I do not hear it without awe. 2010.114
It is not the book that is to be altered: our hearts want altering. 2055.655
These words come from him who can make no mistake, and who can have no wish to
deceive his creatures. If I did not believe in the infallibility of the Book, I would
rather be without it. If I am to judge the Book, it is no judge of me. 2084.257
The Bible never gives unrenewed human nature a good word, nor does it deserve it.
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I am perfectly satisfied myself to believe what he writes to me; and if it be so written
in his Book, it seems to me to be quite as true and sure as if he had actually come
from heaven, and had talked with me, or had appeared to me in the visions of the
night. 2183.15
Oh, to have “the word of Christ” always dwelling inside of us;—in the memory, never
forgotten; in the heart, always loved; in the understanding, really grasped; with all
the powers and passions of the mind fully submitted to its control! 2679.279
I have heard of two infidels, one of whom said to his fellow, “If you had to go to jail for
twelve months, and could only have one book, what book would you choose?” He was
very surprised when his companion said, “Oh, I should take the Bible!” The first one
said, “But you do not believe in it; I wonder that you should choose that.” “Oh! but,”
rejoined his friend, “it is no end of a book.” His record is true, it is “no end of a book.” 2916.6
Do you know what it is to have a text leap out of the Scriptures upon you, and carry
you away? This special energy and flash of truth is always memorable. How often
have the waves of this sea of truth been phosphorescent before my eyes—a sea of
glass mingled with fire, of which the spray has dashed over me and set my soul on
flame! 3184.27