Scripture Quotes - Page 5

It will greatly help you to understand scripture if you note - no only what is spoken and written, but of whom and to whom, with what words, at what time, where, to what intent, with what circumstances, considering what goes before and what follows.

For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.

Holy Spirit, take the Word of truth as we find it in the Scriptures and bring it home to our lives.

Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.

Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.

We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us.

The sincere effort to accept and promote the human values - Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Non-Violence and Love. These five values are a essential for a full and worthwhile life as the five vital airs or pranas mentioned in the scriptures.

Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the Scriptures.

So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to penetrate the surface with more than just a cursory glance.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture.

If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.

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

To lay down one's life for the truth.

The cry for peace will increase according to scripture.

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.

A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time.

How do you remain - steadfast and immovable during a trial of faith? You immerse yourself in the very thing that helped your core of faith: you exercise faith in Christ, you pray, you ponder the scriptures, you repent, you keep the commandments, and you serve others.

Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.

One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe.

The history of every individual man should be a Bible.

The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.

I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.