Scripture Quotes

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

Random? You'€™d almost think we were dealing with an identifiable enemy motivated by a distinct ideology that is drawn verbatim from a particular belief system'€™s scriptures. Nah . . .

Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it?

My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.

The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.

Scripture is something God had ‘let be,’ and so it is at once God’s creation and the creation of the dozens of people and communities and cultures who produced it.

You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.

The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.

Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

Scripture suggests that meditating on the Word of God can have an always-on effect of peace and strength in difficult times.

All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.

Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.

Meditation on a passage of scripture... led a young boy into a grove of trees to commune with his heavenly Father. That is what opened the heavens in this dispensation

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.

If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.

Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.

Some parts of the Bible are dreadful. In fact, my working title for The Sins of Scripture was "The Terrible Text of The Bible."

Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift.

If there's no Scripture in the worship set, then it's not really a worship set.

Scripture often reminds us that it's not enough to have ears - we must use them.

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ...but unless you realize the Truth, there is no freedom.

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

Both my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them.

The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture.

We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)

God is consistent with his nature and declared purposes in Scripture, but he is not limited to our finite understanding of him or the ways we think he should work.

The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.

Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

Money is emphasized in Scripture simply because our temptation to love it is inexplicably powerful.

One of the reasons that Christians read Scripture repeatedly and carefully is to find out just how God works in Jesus Christ so that we can work in the name of Jesus Christ.

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.

There is no use of Evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of Evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core, namely the Scriptures.

Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.

Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.

A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.

The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.

The natural man "cannot see or discern that divine excellency in the Scripture, without an apprehension whereof no man can believe it aright to be the word of God."

The scriptures are one of our greatest treasures. They contain God’s instructions to His people from the beginning of time.

My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

When the Scripture speaks, God speaks

Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing

Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.

I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.

To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship.