Quotes About Scripture

If you like comedy, go home and curl up with Leviticus. The writers of The Onion are handed Leviticus on their first day.

Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.

God cannot honor anything, no matter its degree of sincerity, if it is contrary to His Word.

Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father.

The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.

If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.

The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.

Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ.

God clearly communicates His will for us through His Word.

If we read the Holy Bible, we shall know better ways of living life.

Why don't you read the Holy Bible?

2 Timothy 3:16 ALL Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness.

Lord Jesus, stay with us, for evening is at hand and the day is past; be our companion in the way, kindle our hearts, and awaken hope, that we may know thee as thou art revealed in Scripture and the breaking of bread. Grant this for the sake of thy love, amen.

I want God's Word written on my heart so that my life reflects a close walk with God.

Every Christian in every age has been tempted to paper over scripture's cracks, explain away its oddities, show it's no different or more demanding than what we hearers already think we know about God and the world. This is a mistake. Scripture is spectacularly odd.

Modern, technique-based ways of reading have their place, but reading scripture is not complete until the church loves God and neighbor more.

Our delight is tickled as we see Christ concealed in the Old and revealed in the New.

I am convinced that the Bible is a delight and that studying the Bible is about learning to see that delight.

One reason we misunderstand allegory is that we moderns think that reading is a matter of garnering information. For ancient Christians, reading scripture is a matter of being changed from one degree of glory to another, of being transformed (2 Cor. 3:18).

Reading the Bible, for Christians, is a matter of expecting to be surprised by Jesus again.

If the Protestant Reformation sought to remove the Catholic Church as an mediator between the individual and God, Hermetic magic sought to go one further, and provide techniques to directly plug an individual into the mind of God itself, not just handing over the right of individual interpretation of scripture but a direct connection to the source of scripture.

For me, my future hope is found in my relationship with Christ. By trusting in him and choosing to live a life dedicated to bringing His kingdom glory, I can be confident that I am living a life with purpose and meaning. My identity is found by what God says and who I want to become is laid out in Scripture.

In Scripture we see example after example of God coming alongside people who felt weak and inadequate—who felt the absence of the strength needed for the assignment they'd been given—and calling them to be strong. In fact, there are more than thirty occasions in the Bible where God commands someone to be strong.

You want God? Don't look at Scripture, look everywhere, at the planets, the constellations, the universe. Look at a bug, a flea. Look at the manifold wonders of creation, including the Nazis. That's the kind of God you're dealing with.