Scripture Quotes - Page 7

Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.

Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.

When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.

Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.

We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.

Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.

But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.

The inerrancy of Scripture means that scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact.

The more I read the Scriptures I find an overwhelming case of Scriptures being concerned with the poor, outcast, widow, foreigner and marginalized.

I don’t read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite’s rules for old men, which he did not deliver over the air: Never trust a fart. Never pass up a drink. Never ignore an erection.

The Word of truth teaches in the clearest and most positive terms that all of the dead will be raised. No doctrine of the faith rests upon a more literal and emphatic body of Scripture authority than this, nor is any more vital to Christianity.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

Scripture does not say that God is 'love, love, love' or that He is 'wrath, wrath, wrath,' but that He is 'holy, holy, holy.'

If custom is to avail for proof of soundness, we too, surely, may advance our prevailing custom; and if they reject this, we are surely not bound to follow theirs. Let the inspired Scripture, then, be our umpire, and the vote of truth will surely be given to those whose dogmas are found to agree with the Divine words.

It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation.

Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

We should let Scripture interpret us more than we interpret Scripture.

As we remember prayer and take time to turn to the scriptures, our lives will be infinitely more blessed and our burdens will be made lighter.

We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.

Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.

Live for God. Obey the Scriptures. Think of others before yourself. Be holy. Love Jesus. And as you do these things, do whatever else you like, with whomever you like, wherever you like, and you'll be walking in the will of God.

Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.