Scripture Quotes - Page 18

For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.

Barth's approach tears up any possibility of dialogue between faith and unfaith or between theology and other human sciences. Theology just says what it says on the basis of scripture, and that's that.

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

I could never lead a Bible study; I don't know Scripture that well.

I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.

Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it

God is so clear in spelling out His attributes in scripture in order that others would know what He is really like.

When individual members and families immerse themselves in the scriptures regularly and consistently, … other areas of activity will automatically come. Testimonies will increase. Commitment will be strengthened. Families will be fortified. Personal revelation will flow

The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so plain and precious.

No duty is more earnestly impressed upon us in Scripture than the duty of continual communion with Him.

God ordained and established civil government, but only to serve the common good. A civil government that oppresses its people and acts contrary to the people's interests deposes itself, ceases to be a legitimate government, and, therefore, citizens are no longer obligated by Scripture to obey it.

The republican model described in the Hebrew Scriptures reassured pious Americans that republicanism was a political system favored by God.

The scriptures, for example, discredit an ancient philosophy that has come back into vogue in our day-the philosophy of Korihor that there are no absolute moral standards, that "every man prospers according to his genius, and that every man conquers according to his strength; and whatsoever a man does is no crime" and "that when a man is dead, that is the end thereof".

Some have argued that the Christian notion of Scripture is not epistemologically sustainable. It's not philosophically possible with rigor to uphold the Christian understanding of Scripture.

Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting something, making a truth claim, uttering a proposition that is claiming to be true, it is the truth.

Through reading the scriptures I realized there was a purpose for my life, that I was created for a reason, that I was significant, that it was my choices that got me to where I was at and that it would be my choices that would get me to where I wanted to be as well.

If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

The fact is, we sometimes read Scripture, thinking of what it ought to say, rather than what it does say.

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.

When you study in the Scripture, the Scripture clearly teaches we're not our own.