“Nothing has a greater impact on spiritual growth than reflection on Scripture. If churches could do only one thing to help people… — Josh Hunt Copy Share Image
“The Reformation was an attempt to put the Bible at the heart of the Church again--not to give it into the hands… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
“Desperation is a great giver of clarity: Bartimaeus needed no time to decide what to do next. “Jesus! Son of David!” he… — Sherri Gragg Copy Share Image
“Over half of those events prophesied in the Bible,” Campbell said, his voice growing more intense, “were later fulfilled. The other half… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
“And dipped himself,” says [the Scripture], “seven times in Jordan.” It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
Here, then, is a simple rule of thumb for all of us to apply: If the words of Jesus challenge something I… — Michael L. Brown Copy Share Image
Many there are who, not comprehending, not being affected with, that divine, spiritual description of the person of Christ which is given… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“The knowledge of this world is not considered knowledge, it is worldly knowledge. Scriptural knowledge is considered as instrumental knowledge. Knowledge of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Derrida. Deconstruction’s claim that there is “nothing outside the text” [il n’y a pas de hors-texte] can be considered a radical translation… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Slowly, God is opening my eyes to needs all around me. In Scripture, God revisits this issue of caring for the poor-… — Margaret Feinberg Copy Share Image
The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer.… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“The Bible was written with the assumption that we are the rational and spiritual beings God made us to be, giving us… — Andreas Köstenberger Copy Share Image
“The personal message of Good Friday, expressed in so many hymns and prayers which draw on the tradition of the Suffering Servant… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that's where we need to be engaging our people much… — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
“The logic of the Bible says: Act according to God's "will of command," not according to his "will of decree." God's "will… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“A scribe’s job is to transcribe what he is instructed to write down. Just as God directed and inspired the authors of… — Beau Jason McGlynn Copy Share Image
“In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbour hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The angels of the Bible terrify the humans to whom they visit; they startle and scare and even stun the humans. Why?… — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
“For the most part we’ve dumbed-down New Testament Christianity and accepted our reality as theology rather than biblical theology as our reality.… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“In attempting to say who Jesus is, the best we can do is to utter words provoked by the collective attempts to… — James P. Carse Copy Share Image
“You love it right?" Lassiter asked, holding his Bible high. "I mean, you told me to go on the internet. I did.… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“One of Gunter’s fears was that the Bible was a ‘policy’, a deliberately manipulative hoax. This venerable theme, revived by Machiavelli, now… — Alec Ryrie Copy Share Image
“he’d read the Bible, the Torah, the Koran, and heard the Upanishads were no different—it was clear the battle for justice was… — Michael Capuzzo Copy Share Image
“The book the man is reading is the Word of God, the Bible. It has become both the focus of and the… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“I had never before spent a night with a woman, had someone lying by my side in the quietness of the dark,… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“[Jesus] must have control not only in the big things, but in the little things also; not only over what we do,… — David Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Do you tell me that the Bible is against our rights? Then I say that our claims do not rest upon a… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
I don't think we've got the gospel right yet. What does it mean to be 'saved'? When I read the Bible, I… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
“No one needs to hold a PhD in biblical interpretation in order to understand the Bible correctly. God gave us His Word… — Ron E. M. Clouzet Copy Share Image
“4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“In itself this Christian education is partly the product of the retreat of biblical scholarship from the faith community to the academy.… — Gerald O. West Copy Share Image
“For man to set himself up as man, means the adoption of a super-nature, a superior nature that is nothing other than… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
The Bible says that in the last days, there will be people in our churches who are not true believers, among other… — Greg Laurie Copy Share Image
As a pastor, I addressed the sorts of issues I see people struggling with most and the issues talked about most directly… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“only the last two chapters of Revelation are devoted to the new creation, although it is the goal toward which the biblical… — Glenn R. Kreider Copy Share Image
“But isn't that what love is, Clarissa? Ownership? 'I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine,' as the Song of Songs… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Not one people has ever yet organised itself according to the principles of science and reason. Never has there been a single… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The power of loving a God whom religion paints as the most detestable of beings would, doubtless, be a proof of the… — Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Reading the Bible is the fast track to atheism. Reading the Bible means starting at "In the beginning..." and throwing it down… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
![“And dipped himself,” says [the Scripture], “seven times in Jordan.” It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon his being baptized, but [it served] as an indication to us. For as we are lepers in sin, we are made clean, by means of the sacred water and…” quote by The Church Fathers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/086/the-church-fathers-1438_baptized_and-dipped-himself-says-the-scripture-se_2988744.jpg)
![“Derrida. Deconstruction’s claim that there is “nothing outside the text” [il n’y a pas de hors-texte] can be considered a radical translation of the Reformation principle sola scrip-tura. In particular, Derrida’s insight should push us to recover two key emphases of the church: (a) the centrality…” quote by James K.A. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f9/james-k-a-smith-11405_bible_derrida-deconstruction-s-claim-that-ther_1444563.png)
![“[Jesus] must have control not only in the big things, but in the little things also; not only over what we do, but how we do it. We must submit to Him and His way as He has been pleased to reveal it in the Bible; and if what we do does not conform to this pattern, it is an assertion of our will…” quote by David Martyn Lloyd-Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/963/david-martyn-lloyd-jones-29466_bible_jesus-must-have-control-not-only-in-the_2948413.jpg)
