Scripture Quotes - Page 21

• The assurance of every truth of Scripture is just the beauty of it. First because He has promised to do it; and God's promises are bonds that never yet were dishonored. Secondly, because Christ Jesus hath taken an oath that He will do it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Taken, Promise

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  167 Copy quote

• It is precisely because Biblical revelation is absolutely authoritative and perspicuous that the scientific facts, rightly interpreted, will give the same testimony as that of Scripture. There is not the slightest possibility that the facts of science can contradict the Bible.

  Henry M. Morris

  Biblical, Giving, Facts

  30 Copy quote

• Learning, pondering, searching, and memorizing scriptures is like filling a filing cabinet with friends, values, and truths that can be called upon anytime, anywhere in the world.

  Richard G. Scott

  Filing Cabinet, World, Cabinets

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Rachel Held Evans

  People, Speak, Found

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.180, Thomas Nelson Inc

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The concept of freedom in Scripture differs from modern notions. Freedom is not a life lived free of restraints but a life that recognizes healthy limits, those that are concern to produce prosperity and order for the person who observes them.

  Max Anders

  Order, Healthy, Limits

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  5 Copy quote

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

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Inspired, Holy, Preaching

  77 Copy quote

• Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.

  Wayne Grudem

  Doctrine, Sake, Isolation

  Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.21, Harper Collins

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fear of God does not come naturally to human beings; it must be learned through Scripture, worship, and the hard knocks of experience.

  Max Anders

  Doe, Worship, Humans

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  81 Copy quote

  Show source

• Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mistake, Men, Thank God

  4 Copy quote

• Intellectual methods-study and reason-are essential to our progress toward eternal life, but they are not sufficient. They can prepare the way. They can get the mind ready to receive the Spirit. But what the scriptures call conversion-the change of mind and heart that gives us the direction and strength to move resolutely toward eternal life-comes only by the witness and power of the Holy Spirit.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Moving, Heart, Giving

  7 Copy quote

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

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Monk, Holy, Distinction

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  28 Copy quote

• The God who inspired the Bible is the same God who made the universe, Earth, and all life. This God is the very definition of truth; therefore nature's record will never contradict Scripture and vice versa. When a seeming contradiction confronts us, we can know with certainty we have either misunderstood (one, the other, or both revelations) or perhaps we haven't yet dug deploy enough. Whatever the case, we can embrace the opportunity to gain greater knowledge and appreciation for the Bible, for nature, and for the God who is responsible for both.

  Hugh Ross

  Appreciation, Opportunity, Misunderstood

  16 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  J. I. Packer

  Father, Son, Spirit

  20 Copy quote

• There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims. It has no temple, nor even a solitary column. There goes a rumor that the earth is inhabited, but the shipwrecked mariner has not seen a footprint on the shore. The hunter has found only fragments of pottery and the monuments of inhabitants.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Bible, Rumor

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.188, Xist Publishing

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which is natural to awareness, because the mind that desperately desires to reach another realm or level of experience inadvertently ignores the basic light that constitutes all experience.

  Tilopa

  Philosophy, Light, Discipline

  91 Copy quote