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— R. A. Torrey, The Word of God has power to make wise.

This has been illustrated over and over again in the history of the church. The men who have greatly affected the spiritual history of this world, the men who have brought about great reformations in morals and doctrine, the men whom others have flocked to hear and upon whose words people have hung, have been Bible men in every instance, and in many cases they knew little besides the Bible.

I have seen men and women without culture, who have had almost no advantages in school, but who knew their Bibles; and I would rather sit at their feet and learn the wisdom that falls from their lips, than listen to the man who knows much about philosophy and science and theology even, and does not know anything about the Word of God.

There is wonderful force in the words of Paul to Timothy, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly (the revised version says “completely”) furnished unto all good works” (2 Timothy 3: 16, 17) Through what? Through the study of the Book.

“A Japanese man who came over to this country once said: ‘When I look at a Buddhist priest in my own country, and I see his life of meditation, the study of his holy books, and how he contemplates, and how he strives and disciplines his life for spirituality, I think holy man. When I come to the United States and see an evangelical pastor, I think business man.'”

The grass withers, the flower fades,

But the word of our God stands forever.