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“The Bible is alive...it speaks to me...it has feet, it runs after me...it has hands, it lays hold of me." -Martin Luther

“The Bible is alive...it speaks to me...it has feet, it runs after me...it has hands, it lays hold of me." -Martin Luther

“To read Scripture is to risk transformation, conversion, an exchange of masters.” -William Willimon

“To read Scripture is to risk transformation, conversion, an exchange of masters.” -William Willimon

“Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic… Do not defend God’s word, but testify to it… Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of her capacity!” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic… Do not defend God’s word, but testify to it… Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of her capacity!” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“If we are not interested in the Word of God, can we really be interested in God?” -Robert Godfrey

“If we are not interested in the Word of God, can we really be interested in God?” -Robert Godfrey

“Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.” -Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.” -Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Never let good books take the place of the Bible. Drink from the Well, not from the streams that flow from the Well.” -Amy Carmichael

“Never let good books take the place of the Bible. Drink from the Well, not from the streams that flow from the Well.” -Amy Carmichael

“The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.” -Elisabeth Elliot

“The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.” -Elisabeth Elliot

“When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ‘It is talking to me, and about me.’” -Soren Kierkegaard

“When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ‘It is talking to me, and about me.’” -Soren Kierkegaard

“Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.” -A.W. Tozer

“Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.” -A.W. Tozer

“If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.” -Martin Luther

“If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.” -Martin Luther

"Scripture is like a river...broad and deep, shallow enough here for the lamb to go wading, but deep enough there for the elephant to swim.” -Gregory the Great

"Scripture is like a river...broad and deep, shallow enough here for the lamb to go wading, but deep enough there for the elephant to swim.” -Gregory the Great

“When I study the Bible, I prepare myself to talk to others. When I read the Bible, God talks to me.” -D. L. Moody

“When I study the Bible, I prepare myself to talk to others. When I read the Bible, God talks to me.” -D. L. Moody

“The Bible is the cradle wherein the Christ is laid.” -Martin Luther

“The Bible is the cradle wherein the Christ is laid.” -Martin Luther

“The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.” -Harper Lee

“The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.” -Harper Lee

“I believe that the Bible alone is the answer to all our questions, and that we need only to ask repeatedly and a little humbly, in order to receive this answer. One cannot simply read the Bible, like oth-er books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“I believe that the Bible alone is the answer to all our questions, and that we need only to ask repeatedly and a little humbly, in order to receive this answer. One cannot simply read the Bible, like oth-er books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer