A Few Favorite Quotations About Bible Study

I always enjoy reading what various Christian thinkers and authors have said about studying the Bible. I’ve found the quotations below to be insightful and inspirational. If you have a favorite, feel free to add it in the Comments.

“The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.”
― Charles C. Ryrie

“I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the Bible.”
— D. L. Moody

“We are dealing with God’s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.”
― D. A. Carson

“We must make a study of our God: what He loves, what He hates, how He speaks and acts. We cannot imitate a God whose features and habits we have never learned. We must make a study of Him if we want to become like Him. We must seek His face.”
― Jen Wilkin

“To meditate on Scripture is to allow the truth of God’s Word to move from head to heart. It is to so dwell upon a truth that it becomes part of our being.”
― Greg Oden

“Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive, wakeful reading.”
— J. C. Ryle