Quotes About Scripture

I'm into scripture every day.

A lot of times the thoughts of religion are not all bibliocentric, sometimes they're cultural. Then it becomes cultural to say, 'it's wrong to do this and it's wrong to do that.' It becomes a misinterpretation of scripture.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.

The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture.

The promise of the new covenant is not that we're liberated from God's word, but that we're liberated to keep it.

Scripture Reading: Psalm 62:5–8 (NIV1984) Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken. My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge. Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.

Scripture's commands to "rejoice in the Lord always" (Philippians 4:4)

Scripture reveals God as an emotional being who feels—a Person.

God speaks to us in and through the Word.

If they can't find those answers in your holy writings, they'll move on to the next person's holy writings.

Art is always tempted to glory in itself, and nearly every form of art has been used to communicate values that are contrary to Scripture. Art is as fallen as any other aspect of human existence. This fallenness perverts the arts against fulfilling their original purpose and prevents us from embracing them uncritically.

The testimony of the Bible is clear. The God of Jesus, of Peter and of Paul, and of Abraham and Jacob is a living God. He calls himself "I AM," not "I WAS." Scripture isn't a brittle and crumbling letter from a God long silent. The Bible proclaims a God of visions, fresh words, and new revelations. To believe the Bible is to believe in such a God.

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts to the second, the Epistles to the third, the Revelation.

Scripture is the thing I like to share with people more than anything. My prayer reality is quite kooky. I have this very unique dialogue with the Lord. I utilize my own sort of street vocabulary - nothing slang that would be unacceptable.

I was in a Bible study, Henry Blackaby's 'Experiencing God,' and I started to experience God as I was reading the pages of this workbook and studying scripture with some friends, and we all just searching to fill that void in our lives.

Our loyalty is not to our grandparents, the traditions, our volleyball team, our friends; as believers, our loyalty is to Scripture.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

The author of the document would one day come to believe that it was sacred scripture and that his writing desk was a holy object.

According to Scripture, earthly life was but a moment, but the moment seemed spacious when he was with her.

To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.

The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.

Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted but no Separatist was ever married in church, because there is no hint of a marriage ceremony in scripture and the primitive church had not considered marriage a sacrament before AD 537.

Studying Scripture can equip, guide and reveal how to live in life-giving ways that deepen our friendship with God and others.