Quotes About Scripture

We still do not know what Yeshua really said. We know only what a number of hearers and witnesses have heard. Scripture consists of what has been heard, not what has been said.

By ignoring the apparent contradictions of scripture, fundamentalism ignores its questions, reducing its complexity to implicit equations. Hate equals love; obedience is freedom.

holy scripture was believed to justify her subordination and explain her inferiority; for even as a copy she was not a very good copy. There were differences. She was not one of His best efforts. There is a line in an old folk song that runs: 'I called my donkey a

The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

The Bible's answers are never to be separated from the God of the Bible.

God has written His divine guidelines for your life right in the Bible.

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.

The Bible is the most important part of your faith.

There is no better way to live God's way than to have His Word in your heart and mind.

God's Word is written for you and to you, but it won't help unless you read it.

When you think on the powerful truths of Scripture, God uses His Word to change your way of thinking.

The role of godly parents is to make sure that the hearts and minds of their children are saturated with the Word of God.

God's Word changes the way you think, feel, and live.

Instead of becoming a woman of the world, become a woman of the Word.

Every religion in the world has had a subset of devotees who seek a direct, transcendent experience with God, excusing themselves from fundamentalist scriptural or dogmatic study in order to personally encounter the divine.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

The idea of monogamous same-sex relationships being acceptable to God emerges from an unwillingness to submit to the clear teaching of Scripture.

As a "personal revelation" from your Heavenly Father,[3] your patriarchal blessing is "your own 'personal scripture.' "[4] It "is like having your very own section of the Doctrine and Covenants—a revelation especially for you."[5]

We have taken the good news of the gospel off the headlines of our ministries where it should always be, and we have put it in the advice column part of our youth groups. We pull the gospel out to give advice rather than showing students how Jesus is the hero of all of Scripture, all of life, all the parts of their lives, and showing them how the gospel makes sense of everything.

To recount the essential features of the model: the internal instigation of the Holy Spirit working in concord with God's teaching in Scripture is a cognitive process or belief-producing mechanism that produces in us the beliefs constituting faith, as well as a host of other beliefs.

We are not called upon to enter into controversy with those who hold false theories. Controversy is unprofitable. Christ never entered into it. 'It is written' is the weapon used by the world's Redeemer. Let us keep close to the Word. Let us allow the Lord Jesus and His messengers to testify. We know that their testimony is true.

What Jerry has done, in a masterful way, is go through and select portions of the Scripture and put words in Jesus' mouth that are legitimate because they already appear in the Bible.

I've read the Bible before, a couple of times cover to cover.

We read every verse of Scripture lovingly and attentively, because every verse is a potential summons from God.