Some people like to read so many chapters every day. I would
not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay
my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than I would,
as it were, rinse my hand in several chapters. Oh, to
bathe in a text of Scripture,
and to let it be sucked up into your very soul, till it
saturates your heart! The man who has read many books is not
always a learned man; but he is a strong man who has read
three or four books over and over till he has mastered them.
He knows something. He has a grasp of thoughts and
expressions, and these will build up his life. Set your
heart upon God’s word! It is the only way to know it
thoroughly: let your whole nature be plunged into it as
cloth into a dye.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Taught that We May Teach
