Scripture Quotes · Page 23

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

— Meister Eckhart

“God’s Word is the ultimate beauty treatment for every woman.”

— Elizabeth George

They that deny Christ to be God, must greatly wrest, or else deny the Scripture to be the Word of God.

— Thomas Watson

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

— C. S. Lewis

Scripture often reminds us that it's not enough to have ears - we must use them.

— Max Lucado

“[Christ] will come again. But we must look to Scripture, not human thought, for our guide to preparing.”

— David Jeremiah

The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures.

— George Herbert

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

You got to know which scripture to use for which situation. There's another scripture that's more appropriate for this situation.

— Madea

The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the…

— Abraham Kuyper

The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held…

— Erwin McManus

“Our Scripture awakened that most glorious of things, the spontaneous love our Lord so desires His children to bear Him, for it…

— Amy Rachel Peterson

The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for…

— Sri Aurobindo

[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict…

— Galileo Galilei

They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and…

— Matthew Henry

The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sometimes we need a personal crisis to reinforce in our minds what we really value and cherish. The scriptures are filled with…

— M. Russell Ballard

“Obedience is the thing, living in active response to the living God. The most important question we ask of this text is…

— Eugene H. Peterson

On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a…

— Dalai Lama

“The interaction between God and man in Scripture has always been of great interest to me. I find the Bible’s depictions of…

— Garrett Ham

My conservative brothers and sisters seem to argue that God revealed everything to us in scripture. Ever since, it has simply been…

— Gene Robinson

The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have…

— Martin Luther

The Hebrew scriptures say it's okay to enslave anybody except your fellow Jews. It says you should enslave only your neighbors. I…

— John Shelby Spong

Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering. These, joined with…

— Boyd K. Packer

The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that…

— Marilynne Robinson

A false identity is any lie that contradicts our God-given identities through Scripture. These false identities can be created by ourselves because…

— Matthew West

“The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to…

— Dan Barker

There is no doctrine more fundamental to our work than the Atonement of Jesus Christ. At every appropriate opportunity, testify of the…

— Richard G. Scott

I have serious problems with fundamentalist Christians and their creationist theories. Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I…

— Tony Campolo

Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits…

— Saint Augustine

There needs to be an order of office, but in every single office that is presented in the Scriptures there is the…

— Francis Schaeffer

Believers are often encouraged to spend some time each day alone praying and reading the Bible. This is a good thing, modeled…

— Kenneth Boa

A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it

— Martin Luther

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

— Brother Yun

For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.

— Kevin DeYoung

Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If the biblical creation account is in any degree unreliable, the rest of Scripture stands on a shaky foundation.

— John Macarthur

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

— Jelly Roll Morton

The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.

— Saint John Chrysostom

It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.

— John Stott