Scripture Quotes
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
Therefore, let God inspired Scripture decide between us; and on whichever side be found doctrines in harmony with the Word of God, in favor of that side will be cast the vote of truth
So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to penetrate the surface with more than just a cursory glance.
When the honest, sincere Christian is faced with the decision regarding whether a thing is right or wrong, he should ask, does it agree with all that the Scripture has to say on the subject?
Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.
We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us.
A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time.
If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.
Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.
Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the Scriptures.
The Bible isn't a storybook with many heroes. No, there's only one hero in Scripture: the Son, the Lamb, the Savior, the King, the Redeemer - Jesus.
The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.
Christ, who came meek and mild to save us from pain and suffering, was the One who talked more about hell than any other person in Scripture.
The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture.
The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.
The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.
How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.
That opinion, which supposes personal sanctification to be unnecessary to final glorification, stands in direct opposition to every dictate of reason, to every declaration of scripture.
There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will.
As we fell in Adam, we are saved in Christ. To deny the principle in the one case, is to deny it in the other; for the two are inseparably united in the representations of Scripture
To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.
Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.
All Sacred Scriptures is but one book, and that one book is Christ, because all divine Scripture speaks of Christ, and all divine Scripture is fulfilled in Christ.
Our conscience illuminated by the Holy Spirit as we search the Scriptures will show us in every circumstance the right way.
Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.
The clarity of Scripture means that the Bible is written in such a way that its teachings are able to be understood by all who will read it seeking God's help and being willing to follow it.
Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.
When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.
Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.
Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.
The idea that all the words in Scripture are God's words in such a way that to disbelieve or disobey any word of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God.
God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.
I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.
Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.
But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.
Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.
We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.
Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.