A Quote by J. C. Ryle

We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.

J. C. Ryle

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J. C. Ryle
English - Priest
May 10, 1816 - June 10, 1900

There is more Bible buying, Bible selling, Bible printing and Bible distributing than ever before in our nation. We see Bibles in every bookstore - Bibles of every size, price and style. There are Bibles in almost every house in the land. But all this time I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.

J. C. Ryle

The trick is that you can't find the hidden treasure until you start digging. Often enough, if you take the leap and do something, something will happen. Probably not what you thought, but something.

Debbi Fields

Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which has to be pressed, but the spring is hidden, and the pressure must have a certain strength, so that an accidental pressure would not be sufficient. So likewise is the hope of eternity hidden in man's inmost parts, and affliction is the pressure. When it presses the hidden spring, and strongly enough, then the contents appear in all their glory.

Soren Kierkegaard

Men build our churches but do not enter them, print our Bibles but do not read them, talk about God but do not believe Him, speak of Christ but do not trust Him for salvation, sing our hymns and then forget them.

Leonard Ravenhill

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

John Lubbock

A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.

Melissa de la Cruz

No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible - to read the history and theology.

D. A. Carson

Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.

Smith Wigglesworth

As Christians living in changing times, we must keep three things open: our heads, our hearts, and our Bibles.

Kevin DeYoung

When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person.

Judah Smith

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

John Polanyi

Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.

J. C. Ryle

Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.

Chanakya

For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

Khalil Gibran

Who reads short stories? one is asked, and I like to think that they are read by men and women in the dentist's office, waiting to be called to the chair; they are read on transcontinental plane trips instead of watching banal and vulgar films spin out the time between our coasts; they are read by discerning and well-informed men and women who seem to feel that narrative fiction can contribute to our understanding of one another and the sometimes bewildering world around us.

John Cheever

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