Scripture Quotes - Page 3

If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.

Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide.

When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a source of stimulation, and nothing more... Adopted, rather than used as a stimulus, they are a hindrance.

The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also. If the Holy Ghost guides us at all, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.

We must stress that the basis for our faith is neither experience nor emotion but the truth as God has given it in verbalized, prepositional form in the Scripture and which we first of all apprehend with our minds.

Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture

Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may have become by being long entertained, so soon as it is seen to be contrary to the Bible, we must be prepared to abandon it without hesitation.

Live it like its gospel , quote it like its scripture.

All Scripture is God-breathed and He doesn't waste His breath.

The Bible is not a book like any other. It makes a claim that God spoke and speaks through its message. It argues that as his creatures, we are accountable to him for what he has revealed. The trustworthiness of Scripture points to its authority as well. Scripture is far more than a history book, as good and trustworthy as that history is. It is a book that calls us to examine our lives and relationship to God. Beyond the fascinating history, it contains vital and life-transforming truths about God and us.

From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology.

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

Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.

One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the scriptures contain all the knowledge required to deal with the problems of contemporary society.

The Scriptures sprang out of God.

The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.

The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.

Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment

By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the Church alone is the entrance to salvation: She alone, by herself, and under the protection and guidance of the Holy Spirit, is the source of truth.

When I eat alone I feel like a seminarian being punished. I tried it for one week and I was not comfortable. Then I searched through Sacred Scripture for something saying I had to eat alone. I found nothing, so I gave it up and it's much better now.

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

You can never really know the scriptures until you're willing to be changed by them.

The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.