The most tried and true way to put God first is to read His Word, the Bible, and obey it. There are no shortcuts to spiritual growth.
– Jim George
Related Quotes:
- The less you obey the Word of God, the more you distance yourself from God in the spiritual realm – Sunday Adelaja
- The Bible teaches that there will be a famine of the Word of God in the last days . . . spiritual starvation leads to spiritual death. – Billy Graham
- Faith, prayer, and the Word of God are the weapons God provides you with to fight spiritual battles. – Jim George
- If you obey God with your whole heart, you’ll usually scare off the folks who want you to obey them. – Meg Moseley
- God’s strength will come to you when you faithfully read His Word. – Jim George
- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
- The only spiritual soul can obey’s the spiritual law. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- God’s laws for the spiritual world are found in the Bible. Whatever else there may be that tells us of God, it is more clearly told in the Bible. – Billy Graham
- God’s word is the way to God himself. If you miss the word of God, you will miss God. Jesus is the word! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Pray more often and read and obey The Holy Scriptures in The Holy Bible. – Errol Anthony Smythe
- Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year. – Jim George
- when you obey the rules, the rules obey you – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- The Bible is God speaking to mankind. The more you read the Bible, the more you will hear God speaking to you. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- God clearly communicates His will for us through His Word. – Jim George
- Spiritual growth is the only real growth – Radhe Maa
- I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently. – Jim George
- For wisdom: read your Bible repeatedly and apply its truths often. – Jim George
- Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make. – Jim George
- Prayer and Bible study are inseparably linked. Effective prayer is born out of the prompting of God’s Spirit as we read His Word. – Billy Graham
- You don’t need to understand. You need only to obey and then reap the blessings of that obedience. – Jim George
- Just as the Bible is God’s written Word, so Jesus is God’s living Word. – Billy Graham
- The man who cannot obey God cannot say that he loves or trusts his Master. If God knows best then how dare we interfere with His will? – Alan de Jager
- The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. – George Bernard Shaw
- The only wrong way to read the Bible is to not read it at all. – Elizabeth George
- When it comes to the heart and soul, only the Bible can bring true and lasting changes. – Jim George
- If I stick to the Bible and preach the principles and the teachings of the Bible, and quote the Bible, it has an impact of its own. – Billy Graham
- O Lord, Thy Word, heals my wounds.O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope. O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit.O Lord, Thy Word, revive my soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Exercising a spiritual gift without showing true love is meaningless. – Jim George
- True repentence is to depart from evil. A return to God, seeking his grace for power to obey him. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Read, re-read! Every word you read is a food for thy soul! – Lailah Gifty Akita
- I tried, I really tried, to stick with it. I planned to grow old with this man and possibly die in his arms. – Brenda Perlin
- And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
- Noah got a word from God then built upon that word. Then when the storm came he stood on what he built according to the word of God! – Joe Joe Dawson
- The crux of Bible-Onlyism is that the Word became ink and dwelt among us, and we have only read about His glory. – Atom Tate
- God created people free, but in order to receive true freedom we have to obey God’s rules – Sunday Adelaja
- I cannot read God’s mind, however I can read God’s Word. – RC Sproul
- God is sending forth His message of love, but you must tune in. You must be willing to listen and to receive His message and then to obey it. – Billy Graham
- Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens-”even when things go wrong. – Jim George
- Spiritual warfare is the unseen battle God wages on your behalf. – Jim George
- In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself. – Jonathan Clements