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Monday

The 5 Best Quotes on the Bible + Free Printable - Coffee & Conversation

I am not a fan of QUOTES

In fact often I can be heard complaining how people almost treat a quote

as more important than the Word of God

I actually wrote a blog post about Do We Really Need This Quote?

I'm taking a theme of the Bible this month on my blog so hence the Quotes on the Bible - NOT quotes from the Bible.

I'm looking at serious quotes from people I would respect.

So in the list below I will quote

Not Benny Hinn but J.C. Ryle

Not Greg Locke but Charles Spurgeon

Not Mark Driscoll but Dwight L. Moody

1. Charles Spurgeon

"Visit many good books, but live in the Bible."

2. J.C. Ryle

"Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading."

3. Dwight L. Moody

"The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible."

4. R.C. Sproul Jr

"In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible."

The visual below is available as a Bible Quotes Free Printable

5. Billy Graham

"If you are ignorant of God’s Word, you will always be ignorant of God’s will."

and I could not resist adding a second quote by Charles Spurgeon just as an special encouragement to us all

"A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to

someone who isn’t."

Don't forget to download your Bible Quotes Free Printable

Sunday

Bible Memorization - Psalm 63 v 3 & 4

What do you think?

Could you do it?

Memorize a chapter of one of the Books of the Bible!

Yeah that's not so easy,

BUT

you can learn a verse of the Bible.

Let's actually learn 2 short verses from one of the longest books of the Bible, one of the best known from the Old Testament.
The Book of Psalms.

Most people would consider this a rather daunting challenge especially if they have never learned any scripture before.

Well today we are not going to tackle all of Psalm 63 but we will take on the third and fourth verses.

"Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You.

Thus will I bless You while I live: I will lift up my hands in Your name."

In memorizing this verse let's look at 3 things:

Memorising Tips
A Music Video of Psalm 63 v 3&4
Some Freebies to help you.

Memorising Tips

If you read the Top 10 Ways to Learn Scripture you will see that I give 10 tips to help in this process but we don't have to use all 10 of them on each verse - just the ones that suit best with the verse.

For Psalm 63 v 3 & 4 I'm going to advise using tips 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 10

1. Read the verses often, every day, multiple times in the day.

Leave a bookmark in your bible and every time you go past it grab the bible and open at the verse etc. (you will pick up other ideas later in this post).

Reading and repeating somethings over and over is the natural way to get it into your head.

With these 2 verses it is obvious to think of it in two parts verse 3 and verse 4 but also to think of each verse in 2 halves.

"Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You.

&

Thus will I bless You while I live: I will lift up my hands in Your name."

2. Write out the verse several times.

Why? Because he action of WRITING helps us learn anything.

Because in each of these 2 verses it seems like there are two parts, those two parts can be written on a line each

So you are writing each verse in two halves just as reading it in the two halves as in no.1 above.

Up to date to HERE!

4. Personal testimony - Action from you and more action from you.

These two verses are a great testimony to show praise and honour and obedience to God

Verse 3 talks of God's great care for us and then the right response to this is for us to thank Him and Praise him.

Then Verse 4 continues with more response from us in that we will Bless God all our days and lift our hands in surrender to Him.

This is an example of a verse followed by a natural continuation in the following verse.

So always think of the testimony and recognition of God's lovingkindness and our natural reaction to that to help you get the two verses flowing into one complete thought.

8. Make it easy to see the verse clearly and regularly each day.

In no.1 above I mentioned your bible and a bookmark

but

we cannot have our Bible at hand every moment of the day so if you feel you need frequent readings of the verse like pop-up reminders then do the following:

Get a post-it pad and write the verse out clearly on it then tear off the post-it and stick it on

the mirror you will use first thing each morning and last thing each night
the front cover of your Bible
the front cover of the book you are currently reading
the door of the fridge
the inside of the door of the cupboard where you go to get your favourite mug for that cup of coffee

9. Make or use Bible Verse Graphics

The 2 pictures of these 2 verses Psalm 63 v 3 & 4 near the start of this post are examples of Bible Verse Graphics.

A picture with the words written on it clearly.

By making these yourself you will learn as you create them.

you can use ones made for you that you keep close to hand

(like the ones included in My Resource Library)

I post a Bible Verse Graphic every morning on my

Facebook Page for Sandra's Ark

so if you want to be encouraged by a verse each day or have a graphic you can Share to your timeline or Save in Facebook then click through to my Facebook Page and be sure to like and follow the page to see those graphics in your feed each day.

or Colouring Pages

While colouring in a Bible Verse Page you will be spending time around the words and this also helps to learn the verse.

or Word Search Puzzles of the verses

(like this one below included in My Resource Library)

or Phone Screensavers / Wallpaper

What better use of your phone - to keep that verse in front of you each time you go to check your messages.

For this you will need it to be a suitable portrait shape and size so most of the normal verse graphics you see will not suit.

I have a few verses made out for screen savers & you can download them from

My Resource Library

and finally

my favourite way

but it is not always possible to use this method

10. Sing it.

It is well known that in singing a song you can easily learn the words of the song.

Many years ago a pastor in our denomination of churches wrote a chorus from the words of these two verses - almost word by word from the Bible and because of this song I have always found it so easy to quote these verses

Fred & I have made several short videos of songs/choruses to help you memorize certain verses and you can watch the one for Psalm 63 v 3 & 4 below

I've also prepared a playlist of Short Songs to memorize Scripture on YouTube:

Sandra's Ark Youtube - Bible Memorization

Some Freebies to help you.

Don't forget that many of my posts on the blog have bible verse graphics and I have some of these available as free downloads in my

RESOURCE LIBRARY

Including this one containing the two verses we are memorising in this post

that's also where you will find the phone screen savers for some verses.

You may be interested in my other posts relating to Psalm 63

Pondering Psalm 63

Songs about God's Love

Psalm 51 v 10-12 - Memorizing the Bible

I could never do it!

Do what?

Memorize a chapter of one of the Books of the Bible!

Yeah that's not so easy, BUT you can learn a verse or a few verses of the Bible.

Let's look at a few verses from one of the Psalms

Many people think they could never manage to memorize a whole Psalm or a whole chapter of Scripture.

It is a rather daunting challenge especially if you have never learned any scripture before.

But we are not going to tackle a full Psalm we will simply take on three verses of the 51st Psalm

verses 10 - 12

"Create in me a clean heart, O God,

and renew a right spirit within me.

Cast me not away from Thy presence,

and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.

Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation,

and uphold me with Thy free Spirit."

So in memorizing this verse we will look at 4 things:

Memorising Tips
A Music Video of Psalm 51 v 10-12
Some Freebies to help you.

Memorising Tips

For Psalm 51 v 10 - 12 I'm going to advise using tips 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 & 10

1. Read the verse often, every day, multiple times in the day.

Leave a bookmark in your bible and every time you go past it grab the bible and open at the verse etc. (you will pick up other ideas later in this post).

Reading and repeating somethings over and over is the natural way to get it into your head.

With this verse it is obvious to think of it and separate it to learn into the three parts ie. the 3 verses

"Create in me a clean heart, O God,

and renew a right spirit within me.

then

Cast me not away from Thy presence,

and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.

then

Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation,

and uphold me with Thy free Spirit."

2. Write out the verse several times.

Why? Because he action of WRITING helps us learn anything.

The first verse above can be written on two lines of a page and the next verse on the next two lines and then the last verse on the next two lines.

So you are writing it in three parts just as reading it in the three verses as in no.1 above.

7. Understand the meaning of the verse.

We will never memorize anything properly without having understood the meaning of it and knowing the meaning helps us remember the order of the parts of the verses.

In these verses we have three sections which refer to two things each and these two things are similar.

Hence we work on the pairing of these similar things.

First pairing

Create in me a clean heart & Renew a right spirit within me

Second pairing

Cast me not away from Thy presence & take not Thy Holy Spirit from me

Third pairing

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation & uphold me with Thy free Spirit

This is not just a scrambled prayer it is well structured and obviously the Psalmist had been thinking seriously about how He should pray.

8. Make it easy to see the verse clearly and regularly each day.

In no.1 above I mentioned your bible and a bookmark

but

we cannot have our Bible at hand every moment of the day so if you feel you need frequent readings of the verse like pop-up reminders then do the following:

Get a post-it pad and write the verse out clearly on it then tear off the post-it and stick it on

the mirror you will use first thing each morning and last thing each night
the front cover of your Bible
the front cover of the book you are currently reading
the door of the fridge
the inside of the door of the cupboard where you go to get your favourite mug for that cup of coffee

9. Make or use Bible Verse Graphics

The picture of Psalm 51 v 10 - 12 near the start of this post is an example of a Bible Verse Graphic.

A picture with the words written on it clearly.

By making these yourself you will learn as you create them.

by using ones made for you that you keep close to hand to see and read frequently such as my Free printable for these verses

I also post a bible verse graphic every morning on my

Facebook Page for Sandra's Ark

so if you want to be encouraged by a verse each day or have a graphic you can SHARE to your timeline or SAVE in Facebook then click through to my Facebook Page and be sure to like and follow the page to see those graphics in your feed each day.

or Word Search Puzzles

While finding the words of a Bible Verse in a Word Search Puzzle you will be spending time around the words and this also helps to learn the verse.