It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until the very essence of the Bible flows from you.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of deeply understanding the Bible to embody its teachings in one's life.
Charles Spurgeon's quote highlights the transformative power of immersing oneself in the Bible. It suggests that through thorough study and reflection, the essence of its teachings can deeply influence an individual's character and actions, ultimately shaping them into a living expression of those principles.
In practice
In a sermon about the importance of scripture, you might say, 'As Charles Spurgeon reminds us, it is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible.'
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
And suddenly, I realized the system that I was in did not know what intelligence was, didn't know how to identify smart and not smart. They called me the best, when I knew I wasn't, and they called him the worst, when he was the best. I mean, there could be no more antipodal environment. So I began to question: What is intelligence? Who says? Who says you're smart? Who says you're not smart? And what do they mean by that?
I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.
I had the great good fortune of getting my Ph.D. in the very first year that universities were actively seeking women faculty. The government was putting pressure on universities to hire more women.
Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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