“All other books might be heaped together in one pile and burned with less loss to the world than would be occasioned by the total obliteration of a single page of the sacred volume, the Holy Scriptures.
All other books are at the best but as gold leaf, whereof it takes acres to make an ounce of the precious metal; but this book is solid gold; it contains ingots, masses, mines, yea, whole worlds of priceless treasure, nor could its contents be exchanged for pearls or rubies.
Even in the mental wealth of the wisest men there are no jewels like the truths of revelation.
Oh, sirs, the thoughts of men are vanity, the conceptions of men are low and groveling at their best; and he who has given us this book has said, ‘My thoughts are not your thoughts; for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my thoughts higher than your thoughts.’ (Isaiah 55:8-9)
Let it be to you and to me a settled matter that the Word of the Lord shall be honoured in our minds and enshrined in our hearts. Let others speak as they may.
We could sooner part with all that is sublime and beautiful, cheering or profitable, in human literature than lose a single syllable from the mouth of God.”
–Charles H. Spurgeon, “Holy Longings,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, vol. 27 (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1881), 27: 124.
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