The PyroManiacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from the lifetime of works from the Prince of Preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The following excerpt is from the Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, volume 27, sermon number 1,578, "Taught the we may teach."
"We are to be impartial in our study of the word, and to be universal in its reception."
Set your whole heart on the word. Some people like
to read so many chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the
practice, but I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all
day than I would, as it were, rinse my hand in several chapters.
Oh, to bathe
in a text of Scripture, and to let it be sucked up into your very soul, till
it saturates your heart! The man who has read many books is not always a
learned man; but he is a strong man who has read three or four books over
and over till he has mastered them. He knows something. He has a grasp of
thoughts and expressions, and these will build up his life.
Set your
heart upon God’s word! It is the only way to know it thoroughly: let your whole
nature be plunged into it as cloth into a dye.
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