Quotes About Study

The serious student of the Bible cannot dismiss homosexual behavior simply as an alternate lifestyle. Nor can it be argued that homosexuals were "born this way" or that such behavior is an illness.

Discover the Bible for yourself.

Come back to the Bible. Begin to read it. Study it and God will speak to you and change you—and through you perhaps history can be changed.

If ever we are to study the Scriptures, if ever we are to spend time in prayer, if ever we are to win souls for Christ, if ever we are to invest our finances for His kingdom—it must be now.

Becoming "new" in Christ is a wonderful beginning, but it isn't the end of pain or problems in our lives. It is the beginning of our facing up to them. Being a Christian involves a lifetime of hard work, dedicated study, and difficult decisions.

Prayer and Bible study are inseparably linked. Effective prayer is born out of the prompting of God's Spirit as we read His Word.

Make use of this tool of communication by which God speaks to us—namely, the Bible! Read it, study it, memorize it. It will change your entire life. It is not like any other book. It is a "living" book that works its way into your heart, mind, and soul.

A survey reported that the majority of the seminaries [in the United States] had no classes on prayer. That really shouldn't surprise us when we consider how many local churches offer classes on gardening and the "Art of Conversation" instead of the study of God's Word and prayer.

Prayer is the companion of Bible study.

If you want to become a great leader, you need to prepare yourself to become a great leader, and the best way to do that is to study great leaders.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. Those who don't understand, don't understand understanding. And those who understand, understand not understanding.

Tove was not forced to make a choice between study and work in the spring of

an extremely important trip … just for a week, and there's no way I can possibly refuse. I'll be as quick as I can, on my word of honor." He was immediately ejected from her embrace and roundly abused in terms that were severe but just. He spent the night in the study, on the hard divan

The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest; and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.

I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.

The study of mental phenomena calls for the exercise of that faculty of the mind by which we consider a proposition from all sides and form an opinion in harmony with all the facts. It uses not only one's own experiences but the experiences of others as well as the current working facts in the case and is able to forecast the outcome of an adventure or the solution of a problem.

I do confess that I bring to the study of history the prejudices born of my experiences and imagination—who doesn't—but I will not admit that this disqualifies me from seeing some bit of the truth about the past, even if only a bit.

Had Alexandra ever pressed Jean Louise's vulnerable points with awareness, she could have added another scalp to her belt, but after years of tactical study Jean Louise knew her enemy. Although she could rout her, Jean Louise had not yet learned how to repair the enemy's damage.

but after years of tactical study Jean Louise knew her enemy. Although she could rout her, Jean Louise had not yet learned how to repair the enemy's damage.

Ever since I was little my mother had told me, if you don't know something, go to the library and look it up.

I read them in the intervals between study and play with an ever-deepening sense of pleasure. I did not study nor analyze them—I did not know whether they were well written or not; I never thought about style or authorship. They laid their treasures at my feet, and I accepted them as we accept the sunshine and the love of our friends.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.