Quotes About Scripture

The idea that there is only one way to be reconciled with God has its origins in the Old Testament.

What else should we do with the Word of God but obey?

The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful way forcing people to think about that reliability that is God-given.

If we are to know God, we must read His words, for therein He stands revealed to the honest in heart.

One reason, of course, as a Christian, I believe the Bible is the word of God. I take the Bible as the standard.

We cannot know God apart from His Word.

God was there when it happened. We were not there.... Therefore, we are completely limited to what God has seen fit to tell us, and this information is in His written Word.

An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.

Sadly, God mentions no crowned nags in Proverbs.

In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other.

When believers neglect the revealed Word of God, they are likely to turn to silly and unprofitable methods of insight.

The fear of God does not come naturally to human beings; it must be learned through Scripture, worship, and the hard knocks of experience.

The wonders of nature call to you. The promises and prophecies of Scripture speak to you. God himself reaches out to you.

I accept the historical challenge, and with that, I accept the essentially Christian position that God always has more light to break out of his holy Word.

The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.

Beginning in 1962... the courts began to systematically secularize the nation, reflecting its view that God and the Scripture had no place in the public arena.

It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.

I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity.

The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.

All prophecy is based on a revelation from God, but always operates at a lower level of authority than that of inspired Scripture.

If you keep the law of God, you are not described in Scripture as a pinched legalist, but rather as happy (Prov. 29:18).