Ancient Quote by Desiderius Erasmus

...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe on the…

— Thomas Aquinas

“We affirm that the Holy Scriptures are to be received as the authoritative Word of God. We deny that the Scriptures receive their authority…

— R.C. Sproul

Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.

— John Wycliffe

I think that the authority of Scripture must be accepted by Catholics and Protestants, and that if our doctrinal judgments are not measured by…

— Matthew Levering

Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.

— G. C. Berkouwer

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

— Stanley Hauerwas

“We must be constantly aware of our responsibility in the Communion of Saints, without giving our honored predecessors the final say or making them…

— Anonymous

We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us.

— Steven J Lawson

All Sacred Scriptures is but one book, and that one book is Christ, because all divine Scripture speaks of Christ, and all divine Scripture…

— Hugh of Saint Victor

“The faith that stands on authority is not faith. The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. The…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The holy men and women, whose lives are told throughout this book, witness to the fact that the word of God is alive and…

— Stephen J. Binz

“All Christians have access to the spiritual riches found in the Scriptures, which, after all, were written amid the spiritual turmoil and social conflicts…

— James Martin