Scripture Quotes

Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.

Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.

A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it

All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?

Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof.

Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

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.

In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.

A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.

We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.

If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.

If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.

How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting.

Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says.

Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.

We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God's, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

It’s not comparing yourself with others who call themselves Christians. Compare yourself to the Scripture.

I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.

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