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.
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate and infect us all. They poison our minds, before we can resist, or so much as suspect their malignity. Like the barbarous directors of the Eastern seraglios, they deprive us of our vitality, and fit us for their despicable employment from the cradle.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.
Talent is a by-product of education; the quality of a country's human capital depends on it.
Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.
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