Quotes about Study

It is a very poor thing, whether for nations or individuals, to advance the history of great deeds done in the past as an excuse for doing poorly in the present; but it is an excellent thing to study the history of the great deeds of the past, and of the great men who did them, with an earnest desire to profit thereby so as to render better service in the present.

Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged....

One who will not learn to handle the Bible for himself is not an evangelical Christian.

It is not surprising, of course, that those who attempt to discredit the evidence of Scripture are the people who themselves do not seriously read, know, or make a thorough study of the Scriptures.

Study to practice in life that which the Lord commands, and then be you assured that you shall never hear nor read the same without fruit.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.

The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.

Exchange your love of necklaces and of gems and of silk dresses for earnestness in studying the scriptures.

have written it as a Bible study about God and His sovereignty, wisdom, and love as they bear upon the adversities we all encounter.

Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize in us the likeness to the original.

We can't treat the Bible with kid gloves. We really need to wrestle with the issues, because our faith depends on it.