BIBLE-PERSPECTIVES
There are
four things that we ought to do with the Word of God – admit it as the Word of
God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the
world.
I will give
you this as a most certain observation, that there never was anything of false
doctrine brought into the church, or anything of false worship imposed upon the
church, but either it was by neglecting the Scripture, or by introducing
something above the Scripture.
A Puritan Golden Treasury, compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 33.
It is clear
that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If
someone were to hand me a book that was as simple to me as the multiplication
table, and say, “This is the Word of God. In it He has revealed His whole will
and wisdom,” I would shake my head and say, “I cannot believe it; that is too
easy to be a perfect revelation of infinite wisdom.” There must be, in any
complete revelation of God’s mind and will and character and being, things hard
for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but
beginners.
R.A. Torrey
If
thou didst know the whole Bible by heart...what would all that profit thee
without the love of God and without His grace?
Thomas a Kempis
Sink the Bible
to the bottom of the ocean, and still man’s obligations to God would be
unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and guide would
be gone; the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!
Henry Ward Beecher
The Bible is
an armory of heavy weapons, a laboratory of infallible medicines, a mine of exhaustless wealth. It is a guidebook for every
road, a chart for every sea, a medicine for every malady, and a balm for every
wound. Rob us of our Bible and our sky
has lost its sun.
[The Bible
is] shallow enough for a child not to drown, yet deep enough for an elephant to
swim.
God’s Word
will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from God’s Word.
Nobody ever
outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
C.H. Spurgeon