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John Ruskin: “Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when
I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.”
Charles A. Dana: “The grand old Book still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned and
pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the pages of the Sacred Word.”
Thomas Huxley: “The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and oppressed. The human race is
not in a position to dispense with it.”
W.H. Seward: “The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the
Bible.”
Patrick Henry: “This book is worth all the books that ever were printed, and it has been my misfortune
that I have never found time to read it with the proper attention and feeling till lately. I trust in the
mercy of Heaven that it is not yet too late.”
17.4 Let’s Practice…
1. What is the quickest and most effective way to learn God’s Word?
2. Where in the Bible does God command us to memorize God’s Word?
3-4. What two things are helpful in memorizing God’s Word?
17.5 Let’s Personalize this Lesson…
Activity: To apply this lesson, all you must do is to select a passage of Scripture and make a plan
to memorize it. So write down a passage of Scripture:
Now write it here once you have memorized it:
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