"The man who never reads will never be read. He who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own." C.H. Spurgeon
"And in all this reading, our objective is not so much the accumulation of knowledge as the stimulation to think Christianly." John Stott
"Unread Bibles are evidences against rebels, and are unbecoming in believers." C.H. Spurgeon
"Either read or get out of the ministry!" John Wesley
"This much is certain; we will never preach more than we know and we will never preach above our reading." Albert Mohler
(speaking of preaching) "There is no profession in which performance depends so much upon the accumulation of insight and information." John Killinger
Ouch...that Wesley was is strong!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd wasn't Wesley often dealing with less educated people? He still tells them to hit the books.
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