Scripture Quotes - Page 15

There is no use of Evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of Evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core, namely the Scriptures.

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.

The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)

God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.

Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.

It's good that kids know the Scripture. It's best that they know the Scripture and get the concept. All I can say is, it's working.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.

The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment.

Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.

When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.

Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent.

...tis a dangerous thing to ingage the authority of Scripture in disputes about the Natural World, in opposition to Reason; lest Time, which brings all things to light, should discover that to be evidently false which we had made Scripture to assert.

In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.

It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.

All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced...the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.

All of Scripture is for us but not all of Scripture is to us.

God loves to glorify himself by suspending his gifts and blessings on our asking him for them. We should never presume to receive from God apart from prayer what he's clearly told us in Scripture will be ours only through prayer.

All prophecy is based on a revelation from God, but always operates at a lower level of authority than that of inspired Scripture.

From the holy scriptures, heaven-sent lift will be found for heaven-sent duties.