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title: 'James W. Alexander on What He Prized Most: Hiding God’s Word in His Heart'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2023-02-14
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2023-james-w-alexander-on-what-he-prized-most-hiding-gods-word-in-his-heart
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# James W. Alexander on What He Prized Most: Hiding God’s Word in His Heart

“Beloved children, having almost worn out my eyes by reading and study, let me testify to you, of all I ever learned I most prize what is level to you all, — i.e., *the knowledge of the English Bible*; and for one verse that I know by heart I wish I knew a hundred.” — [James W. Alexander](/authors/james-waddel-alexander), *The American Sunday*-*School and Its Adjunct* (1856), p. 119