Scripture Quotes - Page 26

• 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 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

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• 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

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• We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us.

  Steven J Lawson

  Authority

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• The Holy Spirit can’t remind you of something you never read which is why it’s important to memorize scripture. When you have Bible verses inscribed in your mind, you’re carrying a concealed weapon to use against the enemy in battle. Find a passage today and begin laying up His words in your heart and in doing so you will be prepared for any trials that will come.

  David Jeremiah

  Heart, Mind, Enemy

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• Peace can be settled in the heart of each who turns to the scriptures and unlocks the promises of protection and redemption that are taught therein.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Heart, Promise, Redemption

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• I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word...I would be so overpowered with a sense of God's Infinite Majestey, that I would be contrained to throw myself on the ground, and offer my soul as a blank in His hands, to write on it what He pleased.

  George Whitefield

  Book, Writing, Hands

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• 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

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• Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us.

  N. T. Wright

  Heart, Order, Stories

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• Why do [TEMPLES] beautify and shine? Because as the scriptures say, 'truth shineth,' and temples contain truth and eternal purpose; so do you.

  Neill F. Marriott

  Shining, Purpose, Temples

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• 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

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• Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention!

  Matt Redman

  Song, Heart, Attention

  Twitter post from Feb 18, 2014

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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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• The truth of Scripture is meant not only to be studied-it’s meant also to be sung.

  R. C. Sproul

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• We are to believe and follow Christ in all things, including his words about Scripture. And this means that Scripture is to be for us what it was to him: the unique, authoritative, and inerrant Word of God, and not merely a human testimony to Christ, however carefully guided and preserved by God. If the Bible is less than this to us, we are not fully Christ's disciples.

  James Montgomery Boice

  Believe, Mean, Unique

  James Montgomery Boice (1978). “The Foundation of Biblical authority”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• It is never on account of its formal nature as a psychic act that faith is conceived in Scripture to be saving. It is not, strictly speaking, even faith in Christ that saves, but Christ that saves through faith. The saving power resides exclusively, not in the act of faith or the attitude of faith or nature of faith, but in the object of faith.

  B. B. Warfield

  Attitude, Psychics, Saving

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• Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture

  B. B. Warfield

  Essence, Holy, Divine

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• Let the scriptures refresh you.

  Neal A. Maxwell

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• Your vision of your future will help you press forward. Take a few minutes to envision where you want to be in one year or two or five. Then take action to prepare yourselves. People don’t just run a marathon when they decide to do it. They must train daily, slowly building stamina and endurance to run the 26.2-mile distance. So it is with life. It is daily diligence with prayer and scripture study that will help you reach your goals. Your daily decisions will influence generations.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Running, Prayer, Distance

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• 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.

  Augustus Toplady

  Finals, Holiness, Opinion

  "The works of Augustus M. Toplady".

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• The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me," say the Hebrew scriptures.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Jealous, Reign

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.313, Manonmani Publishers

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• We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.

  George Carey

  Religious, Hands, Intolerance

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• Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts. The scriptures tell us that "Only by pride cometh contention".

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Spirit, Conflict

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• Some sleep too much....Nowhere do the scriptures say, 'Thou shalt sleep eight hours.' Nor do they say, 'Retire early unless you happen to be a night person.' There must be an excellent reason for the injunction to retire and arise early. ...You will profit by this counsel if you heed it.

  Joe J. Christensen

  Sleep, Night, Eight

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• What Grandfather Burton did for me was to write a sacred family record, the small plates of Burton, or, if you will, an inspirational family record. Much of what we now regard as scripture was not anything more or less than men writing of their own spiritual experiences for the benefit of their posterity. These scriptures are family records. Therefore, as a people we ought to write of our own lives and our own experiences to form a sacred record for our descendants. We must provide for them the same uplifting, faith-promoting strength that the ancient scriptures now give us.

  Theodore M. Burton

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Writing

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