Scriptures Quotes

• My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Bible
  • Fountain
  • Counsel

• No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Cross
  • Scriptures
  • Understands

• [Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Bible
  • Doctrine
  • Scriptures

• The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Key
  • Scriptures
  • Gita

• The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.

  

  John Calvin
  • Heaven
  • Believers
  • Words of God

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Study
  • Religions
  • Reverence

• He who wholly renounces himself, and relies not on mere human reason, will make good progress in the Scriptures; but the world comprehends them not, from ignorance of that mortification which is the gift of God's word.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Gift
  • God's Word
  • Human Reason

• We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • God
  • Philosophy
  • Sublime

• The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.

  

  John Calvin
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Learning

• I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Angels
  • Fathers
  • Scriptures

• My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

  

  Bono U2
  • Understanding
  • Christ
  • Scriptures

• We ought not to READ the scriptures, but listen to them, for our Beloved is present and speaks to us through them.

  

  Basil Pennington
  • Present
  • Listen
  • Beloved

• Every Christian must refer always and everywhere to Scriptures for all his choices…not daring to take a step without being illuminated by the divine rays of those words.

  

  Amy Welborn
  • Christian
  • Scriptures
  • Refer

• The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Teaching
  • Christians
  • Scriptures

• What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • God
  • Scriptures
  • Orbs

• My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Ambition
  • Self-realisation

• 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.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Jesus Christ
  • Sins
  • Died

• He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a Christian. This is so that he would not seem to require correction again and again and before two or three witnesses as though he were a Christian. He ought to be corrected for the very reason that he is not to be disputed with. In addition, this is said because a controversy over the Scriptures can, clearly, produce no other effect than help to upset either the stomach or the brain.

  

  Tertullian
  • Reason
  • Christian
  • Discussion

• My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

  

  Bono U2
  • Understanding
  • Christ
  • Teaches

• I have found it helpful to say a prayer asking to understand the scriptures when I read them. Then I ask, "What does Heavenly Father want me to learn from this scripture?" He always helps.

  

  Allan F. Packer
  • Prayer
  • Understand
  • Scriptures

• If you have laws and legislation that ban certain things based on the principles of the Scriptures and based on your Christian background, then let it stand there. Who is having big debates with the Islamic people about it (gay rights)? Who is telling them to bend their laws? If your laws are based on your Christian points of view, then you must stand your ground?

  

  Bishop Noel Jones
  • Christian
  • Laws
  • Legislation

• It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

  

  Bono U2
  • Poverty
  • Accident
  • Coincidence

• In the Buddhist scriptures one of the qualities attributed to Right Mindfulness is called “‘non-superficiality,” and this is, of course, just a negative way of expressing our positive term “thoroughness.”

  

  Nyanaponika Thera
  • Qualities
  • Scriptures
  • Thoroughness

• The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God; to have a faithful heart, a joyful conscience, a spiritual consolation; to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ; to have the gift of prophecy, and the revelation of the Scriptures; to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to rejoice in God.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Law

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