As a Christian, Do You Memorize Verses from the Holy Bible?

I am more spiritually inclined than religious. Over the years the exposure I have got vis-a-vis rituals have made me believe that to be a good human being one needs to spend as much time as possible in praising the Lord than memorising scriptures of which most of us may not even know the meaning. When we were little we had the mass in Latin and we used to say those prayers like parrots not knowing what we were saying. Also over the years a lot has changed chopping and changing scriptures and interpretations thereof. I am a proactive struggling for environment and playing a small role in my individual capacity to do whatever I can and if many did that than spending hours in churches uttering scriptures the meaning of which they do not know there would not have been global warming that we are concerned about today. Kýrie, eléison; Christé, eléison; Kýrie, eléison.

I am not a Christian, but was raised in Catholic schools where we learned bible history but it wasn't until I was exposed to my Hubby's religion that I found out memorization of Bible verses was a popular occupation of Protestants. I was very impressed by how much they knew of this great book.

I was fortunate that in my growing up years the church I attended really emphasized memory verses. Later on in life I helped coach young people who were doing Bible quizzing. Sometimes I challenge myself to memorize, but not as much as I should lately. I think a project for me would be to memorize the entire 8th chapter of Romans as it contains some of my all time favorite verses.

I am not a Christian by religion but I like your discussion, I would like to answer my view on it not as a part of some religion. Even I don't memorize verses from our religious scripture. but its always good to have it in back of mind. It also helpful for someone who teach and explain people about those verses. So, as i person I lay more attention of its usefulness in real like. Naturally, I need to know the meaning and dont need to memorize it. And I strongly believe that those verse want us to understand and action on them and not just memorize them. Eventually, we will be memorized because we dont just know the meaning, we also action and use those things mentioned in the verse. So, that what I believe.

I have memorized and am currently memorizing Bible verses. When I was younger, I had to memorize certain chapters, and I am so glad it was a requirement for my Christian schooling. I wish it would have been required to memorize more! When I was very young my parents helped me memorize Psalm 23. For quite a while I had not memorized anything from the Bible. Recently I started making it a practice to meditate on God's Word daily and was wishing I had more memorized. (I kept going over and over the same passages!) So I had an idea for memorizing. I called it the "Memorization Marathon". Since a marathon has 26 miles, the Memorization Marathon would be to memorize 26 chapters in 26 weeks. It sounded like an enormous goal at first. But I am now about to complete the half-way mark-- 13 weeks! My brother and a friend are also doing it. So we are memorizing one chapter of the Bible every week right now, and are hiding God's Word in our hearts! I am recording my progress on my blog. If you're interested, there's a link to my blog on my profile page. How's that for a short answer?! :)

I've been literally studying the Bible.I'd rather read for myself instead of accepting someone elses translation of it.Recently I wanted to get to know the Bible even more so I've been memorizing verses and where to find them.I still keep forgetting.When I remember a verse I'll post it from my memory.

Normally I don't. But I memorized some of them for debating with Christians .. heheh. Muslim used to memorise Quran in the Original source language, there are lot of people who knows the whole Quran by heart. I don't have much by heart, I know the smaller chapters by heart which is about 1/30 of the Quran by heart. Peace.

I have been a member of churches that expect people to memorize verses , and some that don't. The bible does not say we have to do this. It does say we would study the bible ( 2 timothy 2.15) and that we should remember God's promises. But memorizing the exact wording is not a requirement. In any case, there are so many versions and translations of the bible, that people would be memorizing different things anyway. It is important to have some knowledge of what the bible says. It is also useful sometimes to be able to give people verses to back up what you are saying if you are telling them about the bible. So that would be an argument for memorizing some; but I repeat, this is not a requirement from God. personally, I find that as I read, study and discuss the bible a lot, I end up remembering certain verses and references. I certainly don't sit there with a list trying to memorize things. I remember things I have been reading.