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For the wilderness was a place of hope, of new beginnings.13 It was in the wilderness that Yahweh had met with Israel and made them into his people when they came out of Egypt.

R. T. France

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Russell Lowell

Let him who is struggling against the power of appetite look to the Saviour in the wilderness of temptation.

Ellen Gould White

The untended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.

A. W. Tozer

If we would follow the Lord wholly, we must go right away into the wilderness of separation, and leave the Egypt of the carnal world behind us.

Charles Spurgeon

The wilderness was Israel’s teacher.

Philip Graham Ryken; R. Kent Hughes

What was the difference between the test that Adam underwent in Paradise and the test Jesus experienced in the wilderness?

R. C. Sproul

Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; then he spent forty years on the back side of the desert realizing he was nobody; finally, he spent the last forty years of his life learning what God can do with a nobody!

—D. L. Moody

Dwight L. Moody

The desert is the place where God’s people learn hard lessons of life and faith. It is a place to learn the real priorities and there are no margins for error. In the desert there is no room for luxuries and no respect of human status or strength. To contemplate the desert, then, is to understand the call to walk by faith in God alone. It is a place that simplifies us, down to our true selves, until we are ready to meet the God of life and death.

David Runcorn

The wilderness repeatedly represents in Israel’s history a place of repentance, and hence a place of God’s grace.

James R. Edwards

The manna in the wilderness was another type—something from the Old Testament that pointed to salvation in Christ. The manna taught Israel to depend on God for all their needs, but it had certain limitations.

Philip Graham Ryken; R. Kent Hughes