Scriptures Quotes · Page 7

“We must realize that even though the sacred text of the scriptures could never be improved or changed, flesh certainly can!”

— Ted Roberts

We are all thieves; we are all thieves; we have taken the scriptures in words, and know nothing of them in ourselves.

— Margaret Fell

We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

— Matthew Henry

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

— John Bunyan

“I'm of the opinion and quite certain that our 'personal histories' with God are meant to be well informed by the Scriptures”

— R. Alan Woods 2007

“I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

— Hosea Ballou

Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a…

— Richard G. Scott

Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as…

— Anonymous

“The scriptures do not present us with a series of Christian types to be imitated according to choice; they preach to us…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is fair to say the New Testament is the most ethically sophisticated of the great scriptures; the proper comparison for the…

— Sebastian Faulks

“Study the scriptures and study the mortals who have been most consistently accurate about the most important things. When your freedom and…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“We have sinners who are doing godly things and Christians who are doing evil things. The reason is the sinners focuses on…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which…

— St. Jerome

“Scriptures are instruments, and to know how to use these instruments is itself a science. One has wandered for infinite lives because…

— Dada Bhagwan

Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to…

— John Calvin

“We can say all the right things about the Bible, and even read it regularly, but when life gets difficult, or just…

— Kevin DeYoung

“Scriptural knowledge is achetan (inanimate; lifeless), nevertheless it still it takes one towards chetan (animate, the eternal pure Soul). And Gnani’s [the…

— Dada Bhagwan

Peace in this life is based upon faith and testimony. We can all find hope from our personal prayers and gain comfort…

— James E. Faust

“When you are reading your Scriptures in this way—it matters not whether you have read little or much—if a verse stands out…

— David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

We don’t exhaust the Bible even after reading it hundreds of times. Each time we read it we see it in a…

— Anonymous

The Holy Scriptures...can alone secure to society order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability,…

— James McHenry

“In understanding the Scriptures: “Then [Jesus] said to [the disciples], ‘These are my words that I spoke to you while I was…

— Jen Wilkin

“Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures help us to build a strong trust in the truth of God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down.

— Lauren F. Winner

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

— Randall Terry

“God gave us the Scriptures not just to inform or motivate us; more than anything he wants to save us.”

— Scott Hahn

“The Stones and the Scriptures; The Scriptures and Archaeology; and The World of the First Christians”

— Lee Strobel

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.

— Isaac Newton

Open book of scriptures I man wont deny keep it high. The grass is greener on the other side.

— Julian Marley

The scriptures recommend love and service to the enlightened to develop purity.

— Frederick Lenz

“No knowledge comes from the outside world or an imaginary supernatural paradise.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.

— John Flavel

When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.

— John Philip Kemble

“Tradition is never said to be “God-breathed”[6] and is never exalted to a place of equality with (or supremacy over) the Scriptures.”

— James Robert White

Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

— Saint Augustine

Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

— John Donne

Our conscience illuminated by the Holy Spirit as we search the Scriptures will show us in every circumstance the right way.

— Richard Wurmbrand

“The attainment of an established awareness of the Self (the Soul) transcends the four Vedas.”

— Dada Bhagwan