
The Word Of God 
The Bible is the medicine chest of humanity.
Heinrich Heine
The Bible is most helpful when it is
open.
Let sleep find you holding your Bible and
when your head nods let it be resting on
the sacred page. Jerome
Carrying a Bible will never take the
place
of reading it.
Many Christians expect the world to
respect
a book they neglect.
How can you have faith in the Bible
unless
you know what is in it?
We should study the Bible as a privilege
not as a duty.
Study the Bible to be wise, believe
it to
be safe, practice it to be holy.
Men do not reject the Bible because
it contradicts
itself, but because it contradicts
them.
Go to your bible regularly, open it
prayerfully,
read it expectantly, live it joyfully.
One of the best evidences and of the
inspiration
and infallibility of the Bible is that
it
has survived the fanaticism and ignorance
of its friends.
A person who merely samples the Word
of God
never acquires much of a taste for
it.
Other books were given to us for information,
but the Bible was given to us for transformation.
If you will carry the Bible while you
are
young, it will carry you when you are
old.
The study of the Bible is a postgraduate
course in the richest library of human
experience.
You can't understand all you read in
the
Bible, but you can obey what you do
understand.
The Bible finds us where we are, and
with
our permission, will takes us where
we ought
to go.
Our forefathers built his country with
three
tools : an ax, a plow and a book. That
book
was the Bible.
If the Bible is mistaken in telling
us from
whence we came, how can we trust it
to tell
us where we are going?
The knowledge, understanding and appropriation
of God's word are the means by which
a Christian
grows.
Be careful how you live. You may be
the only
Bible some people will ever read.
The student of truth keeps an open
Bible,
an open dictionary and an open mind.
Three persons were talking about some
of
the recent translations of the Bible.
One
said, "I like the New English
version
of the Gospels. It's easier reading
than
all the older versions." Said
the second
person, "I prefer the new Jerusalem
Bible. The translators have modernized
the
language without sacrificing reverence."
To which the third person replied,
"I
know an even better translation. I
like my
mother's translation best. She translated
the Bible into life."
(c) Fr. Pius Sammut, OCD. Permission
is
hereby granted for any non-commercial
use,
provided that the content is unaltered
from
its original state, if this copyright
notice
is included.
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