Scripture Quotes · Page 11

Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up

— John Howard Griffin

As you engage your mind in the scriptures, your mind will become pure.

— Frederick Lenz

All teaching and all truth and all doctrine must be tested in the light of the scriptures.

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“He can't go five minutes without quoting scripture. It's like biblical Tourettes.”

— Dawn Jayne

If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood.

— Thomas Paine

When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

— Bono

Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.

— Annie Besant

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

— Yeshua

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that…

— John Nelson Darby

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience…

— William of Ockham

God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote,…

— Anonymous

“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits…

— Anonymous

I don’t read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite’s rules for old men, which he did…

— Roger Angell

“You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the…

— Martin Luther

Over the years I realized the damage fundamentalism did to my own spiritual and mental health. I've spend time recovering, studying scripture,…

— Richard Rossi

Barth's approach tears up any possibility of dialogue between faith and unfaith or between theology and other human sciences. Theology just says…

— George Pattison

“There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp,…

— Anonymous

The Scripture says that He, the Lord, came walking in the Temple, with His train; I do not know who they were,…

— Brigham Young

God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to him. He must disclose to us who he is…

— John Stott

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal,…

— Martin Luther

In my understanding of God I start with certain firm beliefs. One is that the laws of nature are not broken. We…

— Nevill Francis Mott

Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old…

— Lady Gregory

When you begin to read or listen to the Holy Scriptures, pray to God thus: "Lord Jesus Christ, open the ears and…

— Ephrem the Syrian

Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges…

— Ezra Taft Benson

America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so…

— Barack Obama

You might tell me that you have been engaging in some deep questioning and theological rethinking.1 You can no longer live with…

— Brian D. McLaren

[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male,…

— C. S. Lewis

“Even when only partly understood, the Bible remained bigger than the niches to which it was relegated. For it requires that we…

— James Wm. McClendon Jr

But after about a year praying, there was just this clear direction. The leadership team believed that God was leading us to…

— Stephen Kendrick

In order to trust God, we must always view our adverse circumstances through the eyes of faith, not of sense. And just…

— Jerry Bridges

What Grandfather Burton did for me was to write a sacred family record, the small plates of Burton, or, if you will,…

— Theodore M. Burton

“Rather than viewing Scripture as a book that merely teaches us how to believe and how to act, Jesus shows us that…

— Josh McDowell

My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Sometimes when I read Scripture, I'm trying to learn something or teach something or change something in my life.

— Jennifer Rothschild

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.

— Stanley Hauerwas

Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.

— Anonymous

The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

— Athanasius of Alexandria

There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.

— Dolly Parton

The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example.

— Richard Furman

Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.

— Frank R. Wolf