Bible Quote by Edward Norris Kirk

We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.

— Martin Luther

As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct.

— Jerry Bridges

The scriptures are one of our greatest treasures. They contain God’s instructions to His people from the beginning of time.

— L. Tom Perry

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

— Hosea Ballou

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

— Saint Augustine

“The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.”

— St. John Chrysostom

You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work of devotion…

— Marianne Williamson

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

— John Philip Kemble

“If we neglect Scripture in order to read only other books, we not only cut ourselves from the divine umbilical cord that feeds our…

— Tony Reinke

“The sacred Scriptures grow with the one who reads them.”

— Pope Gregory I

“Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence. Let Scripture be first and most in…

— Richard Baxter

Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively,…

— Richard Baxter