Scripture Quotes

• Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon him.

  

  William Law
  • Spirit
  • Poor
  • Empty

• The scripture is filled with examples of genuine masculinity; you could mine David's story for probably a year by itself. And we have to get the masculinity of Jesus back. Not the pale-faced altar boy, but the man that made a weapon and cleared the temple, who boldly cast out demons and calmed the raging sea.

  

  John Eldredge
  • Jesus
  • Boy
  • Sea

• We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • World
  • Mind
  • Church

• It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.

  

  Chris Adrian
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Promise

• No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.

  

  Learned Hand
  • May
  • History
  • Political

• When you teach, you need to give the students incentives by grades or by other factors. I went to the Bible to find that topic in Scripture. I was shocked that after college and graduate school I had no idea that Jesus Christ had talked so much about rewards.

  

  Bruce Wilkinson
  • School
  • College
  • Jesus

• President Benson's mighty influence is felt in many ways. His timely and inspired counsel to read the precious Book of Mormon brought an added appreciation of this sacred scripture to all who followed his direction.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Book
  • Inspired
  • Appreciation

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

  

  Austin Farrer
  • Present
  • Worship
  • Images

• In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whether you're obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don't see any purpose for me in being ordained.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • God
  • Purpose
  • Bible

• At the end of the day I see myself as a communicator. So any way that I can, any medium, any art form that I can use to communicate the truths of the Lord and scripture and my passion, then I'm going to do it. I don't know, I may do a spoken word piece one day, or I may turnaround and try to write a short story. I don't know, it just depends, but anything artistically that I can use I'll try to do it.

  

  Tedashii Lavoy Anderson
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Art

• Jesus said, 'Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's,' and part of that was to go to war, protecting whatever nation was under control of the king. I wouldn't agree with any interpretation of Scripture that was used to say that a man or a woman shouldn't protect their families.

  

  Jerry Falwell, Jr.
  • War
  • Control
  • Jesus

• For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written, are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Book
  • Impressions

• After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.

  

  John Biddle
  • God
  • Long
  • Truth

• The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

  

  Peter Abelard
  • Life
  • Men
  • Scripture

• There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Women
  • Church
  • Bible

• they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not another, contrary to all scriptures.

  

  William Tyndale
  • Philosopher
  • Free Will
  • Heathen

• All Scripture is equally inspired, but not all Scripture is equally applicable or relevant to every stage of life.

  

  Andy Stanley
  • Life
  • Inspired
  • Scripture

• The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.

  

  John Calvin
  • Christianity
  • Falsehood
  • Word Of God

• The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can for me change this.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Religious
  • Human

• The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Prayer

• Scripture tells us to "run with endurance the race that is set before us." As we do, may God hold close those who’ve been taken from us too soon.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
  • May
  • Taken

• I believe that the writers of Genesis had detected the inherent selfishness in human nature that I propose is in our genes, and invented the myth of original sin to account for it. It's an image. I am not acting as an exegete - I don't interpret scripture.

  

  Christian de Duve
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Scripture

• In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our defense. In this sense God is the rock of his people, and false Gods are called the rock of those that trust in them. In the same sense the Gods of the King who shall do according to his will are called Mahuzzims, munitions, fortresses, protectors, guardians, or defenders.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • God
  • Scripture
  • Trusting

• Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Tradition
  • Scripture
  • Guides

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