Quotes about Study

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals.

So I offer my definition of theology: theology is the application of Scripture, by persons, to every area of life.

Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued, investigation of the great subject of the Deity. The most excellent study for expanding the soul is the science of Christ and Him crucified and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity" (C. H. Spurgeon).

The foundation of all true knowledge of God must be a clear mental apprehension of His perfections as revealed in Holy Scripture. An

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he was thrust into this administrative job, and he submitted to that. And in that submission, he became a great leader. You could say that the only person who is safe to lead is the person who is free to submit.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.

Men were first led to the study of philosophy, as indeed they are today, by wonder.