It is not the bee’s touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most, but he who meditates most — who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

— Thomas Brooks

It is not hasty reading, but seriously meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul.

— Thomas Brooks