Strongly influenced by Reformation thinkers of his day, Thomas Cranmer wholeheartedly believed in the importance of spending time in the Scriptures daily. This explains why the Word of God functions as the very foundation of the Book of Common Prayer, which is saturated with Scriptures from the Old and New Testament. Cranmer once said, “The people (by daily hearing of holy Scripture read in the church) should continually profit more and more in the knowledge of God and be the more inflamed with the love of his true religion.”
