Bible Quote by Roy L. Smith Download Open image “More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.” — Roy L. Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bible More More people Obscure People Plain Scripture Than Troubled
That it has pleased God to make Holy Scripture obscure in certain places lest, if it were perfectly clear to all, it might be… — Pope Gregory VII Copy Share Image
The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is something for… — John Drane Copy Share Image
“The challenges to the clarity of Scripture start out small. They sound humble and practical at first. But in the end, if we lose… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Some people are ignorant of the world but educated in Scripture, and are therefore prone to missing the relevance of Scripture - these sometimes,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For various reasons, when people engage the Bible, they don't see very readily how it relates to their work. — David Kim Copy Share Image
Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them. — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“If Christians have learned anything from our rocky two-thousand-year theological history, it’s that we make the most beautiful things ugly when we try to… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. — Roy L. Smith Copy Share Image
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. — Roy L. Smith Copy Share Image
The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share. — Roy L. Smith Copy Share Image
The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have… — Roy L. Smith Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“God hates Hell. He hates the idea of people going there. He hates it so much that He was willing to take on human… — Evan Minton Copy Share Image
“The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose, Sergeant,’ Anthony Payne replied. ‘That is from The Merchant of Venice, but it holds great truth.” — Michael Arnold Copy Share Image
When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell… — Lee Greenwood Copy Share Image
“Scripture also teaches that human beings are morally responsible creatures” — Robert A. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote: "I had enjoyed much peace… — Stephen Taylor Copy Share Image
O Word of God incarnate . . . It is the golden casket Where gems of truth are stored; It is the heaven-drawn picture… — Walsham How Copy Share Image
Every plant which my heavenly father has not planted with be uprooted — Jesus Christ Copy Share Image
Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
