“Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord” (Hosea vi. 3). The mysteries of Christ are not learned in a day. Some are in a good mood, maybe, and they will look into the Bible and read a chapter or two, and away they go for a week, and never practise it more; like some boys, if at school one day, truant all the week after. Is it any wonder such thrive not in knowledge? It is a good speech of one:—”The study of the Word and the reading of it differs as much as the friendship of such who every day converse lovingly together doth from the acquaintance one hath with a stranger at an inn, or whom he salutes as he passeth by in the street.” If you will get knowledge indeed, you must not only salute the Word now and then, but walk with it, and enter into daily converse with it.
—Gurnall.