Scripture famous quotes
05-24-2025
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To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
-- Adam Clarke -
Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.
-- Adi Shankara -
The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Holy Spirit, take the Word of truth as we find it in the Scriptures and bring it home to our lives.
-- Alistair Begg -
We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.
-- Alistair Begg -
We must think ourselves empty when coming to the text of scripture and read ourselves full.
-- Alistair Begg -
It is imperative that those who name the name of Christ would be instructed in the truth of Scripture.
-- Alistair Begg -
As in paradise, God walks in the Holy Scriptures, seeking man.
-- Ambrose -
Truth is neither in the scripture nor in the words of prophets. It is in your heart, feel it, discover it and expand with it.
-- Amit Ray -
Random? You'€™d almost think we were dealing with an identifiable enemy motivated by a distinct ideology that is drawn verbatim from a particular belief system'€™s scriptures. Nah . . .
-- Andrew C. McCarthy -
In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whether you're obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don't see any purpose for me in being ordained.
-- Anne Graham Lotz -
There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't.
-- Anne Graham Lotz -
The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.
-- Anne Hutchinson -
Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it?
-- Ardeth Kapp -
My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.
-- Arsenio Hall -
To realize that the Holy Scriptures are a revelation from the Most High, communicating to us His mind and defining for us His will, is the first step toward practical godliness. To recognize that the Bible is God's Word, and that its precepts are the precepts of the Almighty, will lead us to see what an awful thing it is to despise and ignore them.
-- Arthur W. Pink -
No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.
-- Arthur W. Pink -
That opinion that personal holiness is unnecessary to final glorification is in direct opposition to every dictate of reason; to every declaration of Scripture.
-- Augustus Toplady -
The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.
-- Austin Farrer -
Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture
-- B. B. Warfield -
The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.
-- Barack Obama -
Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?
-- Barack Obama -
What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
If we belong to Christ, Satan has no right to exercise authority over us, but he hopes we're too ignorant regarding Scripture to know it.
-- Beth Moore -
We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves.
-- Beth Moore -
According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.
-- Bill Vaughan -
It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
-- Bono -
You can never really know the scriptures until you're willing to be changed by them.
-- Brother Yun -
The Word of truth teaches in the clearest and most positive terms that all of the dead will be raised. No doctrine of the faith rests upon a more literal and emphatic body of Scripture authority than this, nor is any more vital to Christianity.
-- C. I. Scofield -
The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.
-- C.P. Cavafy -
As we fell in Adam, we are saved in Christ. To deny the principle in the one case, is to deny it in the other; for the two are inseparably united in the representations of Scripture
-- Charles Hodge -
No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.
-- Charles Simeon -
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation.
-- Christiaan Huygens -
The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture.
-- Chuck Missler -
But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.
-- Clement of Alexandria -
Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having taught us first of all by his works, did it afterwards, by his Words. We will now for a while read the former of these books; 'twill help us in reading the latter. They will admirably assist one another.
-- Cotton Mather -
Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.
-- Cyprian -
The Bible is not a book like any other. It makes a claim that God spoke and speaks through its message. It argues that as his creatures, we are accountable to him for what he has revealed. The trustworthiness of Scripture points to its authority as well. Scripture is far more than a history book, as good and trustworthy as that history is. It is a book that calls us to examine our lives and relationship to God. Beyond the fascinating history, it contains vital and life-transforming truths about God and us.
-- Darrell Bock -
No duty is more earnestly impressed upon us in Scripture than the duty of continual communion with Him.
-- David McIntyre -
The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.
-- Deborah Norville -
The emphasis in Scripture is not the amount we give, but the attitude with which we give.
-- Dillon Burroughs -
If you keep the law of God, you are not described in Scripture as a pinched legalist, but rather as happy (Prov. 29:18).
-- Douglas Wilson -
Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.
-- Eden Ahbez -
Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.
-- Ephrem the Syrian -
When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
-- Eugene H. Peterson -
Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts. The scriptures tell us that "Only by pride cometh contention".
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
We are not alone. Even now there are thousands of beings in heaven watching what is going on down here—a ‘great cloud of witnesses,’ the Scripture says. It reminds me that there is so much more to our existence than what we can see. What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.
-- Francis Chan -
We must stress that the basis for our faith is neither experience nor emotion but the truth as God has given it in verbalized, prepositional form in the Scripture and which we first of all apprehend with our minds.
-- Francis Schaeffer -
Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.
-- Frank R. Wolf -
Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.
-- G. C. Berkouwer -
Every word about the God-breathed character of Scripture is meaningless if Holy Scripture is not understood as the witness concerning Christ.
-- G. C. Berkouwer -
The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God's Spirit.
-- G. Campbell Morgan -
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
-- Galileo Galilei -
[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.
-- Galileo Galilei -
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
-- Galileo Galilei -
Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
-- Galileo Galilei -
The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.
-- Gary Bauer -
We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.
-- George Carey -
I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.
-- George Carey -
If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.
-- George Muller -
The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also. If the Holy Ghost guides us at all, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.
-- George Muller -
Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.
-- George Muller -
Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.
-- Greg L. Bahnsen -
If custom is to avail for proof of soundness, we too, surely, may advance our prevailing custom; and if they reject this, we are surely not bound to follow theirs. Let the inspired Scripture, then, be our umpire, and the vote of truth will surely be given to those whose dogmas are found to agree with the Divine words.
-- Gregory of Nyssa -
Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....
-- H. G. Wells -
Scripture is not a concept; scripture is a person (John 1:1,14). When you stand before the Word of God, you are not merely encountering a concept; you are standing face-to-face with God.
-- Henry Blackaby -
We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.
-- Hosea Ballou -
Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.
-- Howard Fast -
So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to penetrate the surface with more than just a cursory glance.
-- Howard G. Hendricks -
The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.
-- Howard G. Hendricks -
When we . . . read and study the scriptures, benefits and blessings of many kinds come to us. This is the most profitable of all study in which we could engage.
-- Howard W. Hunter -
If you pray for an angel to visit you, you know what he'll do if he comes. He'll just quote the scriptures to you - so you know you're wasting your time waiting for what we already have. I'm quite serious about that.
-- Hugh Nibley -
Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.
-- Iain Pears -
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
-- Isaac Newton -
And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day .... The reason why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that we observe many other things, not because the Bible, but because the church has enjoined it.
-- Isaac Williams -
True Christians delight to read the Scriptures, because they tell them about their beloved Savior.
-- J. C. Ryle -
Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
-- J. C. Ryle -
Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing in God's judgment, hating what He hates, loving what He loves, and measuring everything in this world by the standard of His Word.
-- J. C. Ryle -
When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.
-- J. I. Packer -
When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
-- Jack Kerouac -
Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.
-- James McHenry -
The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.
-- Jelly Roll Morton -
I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.
-- Jim Caviezel -
All Scripture is God-breathed and He doesn't waste His breath.
-- Jim McCotter -
To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only that it be an honest study - a search for truth.
-- John Andreas Widtsoe -
Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness.
-- John Bytheway -
The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.
-- John Calvin -
But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
-- John Calvin
