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Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds QUOTES

1 " For years I viewed my interaction with the Bible as a debit account: I had a need, so I went to the Bible to withdraw an answer. But we do much better to view our interaction with the Bible as a savings account: I stretch my understanding daily, I deposit what I glean, and I patiently wait for it to accumulate in value, knowing that one day I will need to draw on it. "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

2 " We will not wake up ten years from now and find we have passively taken on the character of God. "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

3 " The Word is living and active. It will conform you by dividing you. And in the dividing, miracle of miracles, it will render you whole. "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

4 " The heart cannot love what the mind does not know. "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

5 " If we want to feel deeply about God, we must learn to think deeply about God. "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

6 " We must make a study of our God: what he loves, what he hates, how he speaks and acts. We cannot imitate a God whose features and habits we have never learned. We must make a study of him if we want to become like him. We must seek his face. "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

7 " The Bible does tell us who we are and what we should do, but it does so through the lens of who God is. The knowledge of God and the knowledge of self always go hand in hand. "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

8 " We can't fully appreciate the sweetness of the New Testament without the savory of the Old Testament. "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

9 " finding greater pleasure in God will not result from pursuing more experiences of him, but from knowing him better. It will result from making a study of the Godhead. "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

10 " Bible literacy matters because it protects us from falling into error. Both the false teacher and the secular humanist rely on biblical ignorance for their messages to take root, and the modern church has proven fertile ground for those messages. Because we do not know our Bibles, we crumble at the most basic challenges to our worldview. Disillusionment and apathy eat away at our ranks. Women, in particular, are leaving the church in unprecedented numbers.1 "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

11 " A vision of God high and lifted up reveals to me my sin and increases my love for him. Grief and love lead to genuine repentance, and I begin to be conformed to the image of the One I behold. "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

12 " The Bible does not want to be neatly packaged into three-hundred-and-sixty-five-day increments. It does not want to be reduced to truisms and action points. It wants to introduce dissonance into your thinking, to stretch your understanding. It wants to reveal a mosaic of the majesty of God one passage at a time, one day at a time, across a lifetime. "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

13 " How do you move a mountain? One spoonful of dirt at a time. Chinese proverb "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

14 " Every good endeavor should be done with purpose. Without a clear sense of purpose, our efforts to do a good thing well can flounder. But with a clear purpose, we are far more likely to persevere. "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

15 " The second thing I got backwards in my approach to the Bible was the belief that my heart should guide my study. The heart, as it is spoken of in Scripture, is the seat of the will and emotions. It is our “feeler” and our “decision-maker.” Letting my heart guide my study meant that I looked for the Bible to make me feel a certain way when I read it. I wanted it to give me peace, comfort, or hope. I wanted it to make me feel closer to God. "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

16 " Exegesis says, “Before you can hear it with your ears, hear it with theirs. Before you can understand it today, understand it back then. "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

17 " Are we called to be like Noah? Yes. Are we called to be like the Good Samaritan? Yes. But not simply because they are positive examples to inspire us to righteousness. These stories point us to Christ. "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

18 " A well-rounded approach to Bible study recognizes that the Bible is always more concerned with the decision-maker than with the decision itself. Its aim is to change our hearts so that we desire what God desires, rather than to spoon-feed us answers to every decision in life. "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

19 " If we want to feel a deeper love for God, we must learn to see him more clearly for who he is. If we want to feel deeply about God, we must learn to think deeply about God. "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

20 " We must love God with our minds, allowing our intellect to inform our emotions, rather than the other way around. "

― , Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds