Scripture Quotes - Page 20

• I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.

  John Stott

  Pain, Voice, Listening

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• The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

  St. Jerome

  Swim, Drink, Enough

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• If you're anxious about the state of the world, that's understandable. But trade your anxiety for the blessing of hearing the words of Scripture, keeping them in faith and obedience, and remembering the time is near.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• If you meditate long enough, deep enough, it is impossible for you to hurt anybody for food; it is impossible. It is not a question of argument, it is not a question of scriptures, it is not who says what, it is not a question of calculating that if you take vegetarian food you will become spiritual; it is automatic. It is not a question of cunningness, you simply become spiritual. The whole thing seems so absurd. Just for food, killing animals, birds, seems so absurd, it falls down.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Hurt, Fall

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• When one comes to know God and His Son Jesus Christ through the scriptures, the Spirit, and personal revelation, it is impossible to feel anything other than overwhelmed by the attributes so perfectly developed in them and so tentatively and superficially developed in oneself. Even so, we are told to strive to become like them.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Son, Spirit

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• The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

  John Ortberg

  Goal

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.184, Harper Collins

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• The Bible is not a book of magic. It's a book of mystery. You can't just quote verses that support your prejudices or guarantee your health, wealth, and happiness and demand that God 'follow through' as promised. God is not limited to the words of Scripture. God is still speaking.

  Mel White

  Book, Wealth And Happiness, Support

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• The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

  William Shenstone

  Musical, Lines, Periods

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• From the Scriptures we find basic truths that may serve as the foundation of our teaching of history. The first basic truth is that God is in control of history. God's control may take the form of caring, governing, protecting, sustaining, and preserving. He exercises His will through divine superintendence or by divine intervention

  D. A. Fisher

  Education, Teaching, Exercise

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• Sacred scripture is of course the basic authority for everything; yet I sometimes run across ancient sayings or pagan writings - even the poets - so purely and reverently and admirably expressed that I can't help believing the author's hearts were moved by some divine power. And perhaps the spirit of Christ is more widespread than we understand, and the company of the saints includes many not on our calendar.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Running, Believe, Writing

  Desiderius Erasmus (1965). “The Colloquies of Erasmus”, Chicago, 1965- .

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• The first step to walking in righteousness is simply to try. We must try to believe. Try to learn of God: read the scriptures; study the words of His latter-day prophets; choose to listen to the Father, and do the things He asks of us. Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible-and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Father, Real, Believe

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• I think that people who study the scriptures get a dimension to their life that nobody else gets and that can’t be gained in any way except by studying the scriptures. There’s an increase in faith and a desire to do what’s right and a feeling of inspiration and understanding that comes to people who study the gospel—meaning particularly the Standard Works—and who ponder the principles, that can’t come in any other way

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Inspiration, Thinking, People

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• Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken.

  Trip Lee

  Broken, Perfect, Made

  Twitter post from Jan 13, 2015

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• In all of the history of mankind there has never been a time when we have had a greater opportunity to increase our knowledge of the law of the Lord...Surely there can be no excuse for us not to become the best informed generation of all time in our knowledge of the scriptures. Never before have we had opportunity such as we have today to become real gospel scholars.

  L. Tom Perry

  Real, Opportunity, Law

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• The scriptures speak of His arms being open, extended, stretched out, and encircling. They are described as mighty and holy, arms of mercy, arms of safety, arms of love, “lengthened out all the day long.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Long, Safety, Arms

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• The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Monk, Holy, Distinction

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

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read more widely but often less well, especially when what we are reading-such as the plays of Shakespeare and Holy Scripture-is a body of oral material that has been, almost but not quite accidentally, captured in a book like a fly in amber.

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Book, Reading, Play

  Jaroslav Pelikan (2006). “Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures”, p.16, Penguin

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• One of the great compliments paid the Savior was that he taught as one having authority. The missionary who knows scripture and can quote it speaks with the voice of authority...May I suggest that in our family night gatherings we make it a project to memorize one scripture a week pertinent to this work. At the conclusion of a year our children will have on their lips a fund of scripture which will remain with them throughout their lives.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Night, Years

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• Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Ignorance, Two, Facts

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• If you pray for an angel to visit you, you know what he'll do if he comes. He'll just quote the scriptures to you - so you know you're wasting your time waiting for what we already have. I'm quite serious about that.

  Hugh Nibley

  Angel, Visits You, Waiting

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Inspired, Holy, Preaching

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• A pacifist has a lot of difficulty reconciling pacifism with scripture.

  Mark Driscoll

  Pacifism, Difficulty, Pacifist

  "Mark Driscoll: 'Meek. Mild. As If'". Robert Lanham, Evangelical Right blog, October 3, 2006.

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• Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

  John Calvin

  Wish, Acting, Inward

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• In the Scriptures be the fat pastures of the soul; therein is no venomous meat, no unwholesome thing; they be the very dainty and pure feeding. He that is ignorant, shall find there what he should learn.

  Thomas Cranmer

  Soul, Ignorant, Meat

  Thomas Cranmer, Henry Jenkyns (1833). “The Remains of Thomas Cranmer”, p.111

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