lost quote
Hey guys... I'm looking for a quote that says something like:
a man alone in a room with a Bible will know more what's going on in the world...
The idea being that a Bible was more useful than a newspaper for current events, etc. I thought I had the quote but can't find it in my library and I can't remember where I read it... Anybody have that in their stuff? Thanks...
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I've search quite a bit too with no good results. Sorry.
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Me three.
I have heard some preachers say similar things, but nobody well know.
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the closest that I came up with:
"If we may judge by the history of the church, both in early and modern times, a man of true religious feeling needs nothing but a room and a Bible, in order to produce the greatest results. The one thing essential is not new plans, new experiments, and daily changes, but a belief in the power of the permanent truths of the Christian religion, and a devotion to these, and to these alone."—The Times.
Spurgeon, C. H. (1878). The Sword and Trowel: 1878 (p. 43). London: Passmore & Alabaster.
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Al Dobko said:
Hey guys... I'm looking for a quote that says something like:
a man alone in a room with a Bible will know more what's going on in the world...
The idea being that a Bible was more useful than a newspaper for current events, etc. I thought I had the quote but can't find it in my library and I can't remember where I read it... Anybody have that in their stuff? Thanks...
Here is a lead
Indeed, some historians do not hesitate to treat Luther’s high opinion of church and ministry as a logical inconsistency. “A man alone in his room with God and God’s Word, the Bible, like Luther in his tower room—this [according to E. Harris Harbison] would be the true picture of a Christian,” had Luther been more logically inclined.4
B. A. Gerrish, The Old Protestantism and the New: Essays on the Reformation Heritage (London; New York: T&T Clark, 2004), 91.
Footnote 4:
E. Harris Harbison, The Age of Reformation (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1955), p. 50.
B. A. Gerrish, The Old Protestantism and the New: Essays on the Reformation Heritage (London; New York: T&T Clark, 2004).
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Those might be it; that's awesome thanks guys!
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The Swiss theologian Karl Barth said that the preacher must have the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.
That's a different perspective to the above statement, but still gold.
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