Quotes About Scripture

1) Why do I meditate?[102] Because I am a Christian and because for that very reason every day is lost to me in which I have not deepened my knowledge of God's word in Holy Scripture. It is only on the firm basis of God's word that I can take certain steps. As a Christian, however, it is only through hearing the sermon and through prayerful meditation that I come to know Holy Scripture.

Holy Scripture does not consist of individual passages; it is a unit and is intended to be used as such.

Many go to great lengths to discover God's will or to hear His voice, yet we only need to open His Book.

God's will isn't always written in the sky, but it is clearly written in His Word.

Your attitude toward Scripture can reveal your attitude toward the Savior. When your passion for God's Word runs high, your passion for God does as well.

Appendix 2 Scriptural Confessions

Father St. Jure, S.J., commenting on Canticles 8:6 — "Place me as a seal upon thy heart and as a seal upon thy arm" — says that "the heart signifies the interior, contemplative life, and the arm, the exterior, active life, and that Holy Scripture mentions the heart and the arm together in order to show that both modes of life can be found perfect together in one person. The heart is mentioned first, because it is far more noble and necessary than the arm.

Luther made a distinction between the inner and outer word: the latter is the Scripture and the former the revelation of Christ. Thus the Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid and the swaddling clothes in which Christ is wrapped. Or the Word of God is the water that comes to us through the pipes (the written witness).

the Bible does not present what the right human thoughts about God are. The Bible shows the right thoughts of God about humans.

Friend, the church finds its life as it listens to the Word of God. It finds its purpose as it lives out and displays the Word of God. The church's job is to listen and then to echo.

In the end, an impatience with the Word of God can be explained only by an impatience with God. We all, both individually and congregationally, neglect God's Word to our own ruin.

Most of you live your life on flimsy little songs, not upon the word of God.

It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.

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.

Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

Much of God's will for your life is already found in the Bible.

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

One of the outcomes of a Spirit-filled life is a new illumination to understand God's Word.

I have said it many a time, and am surer of it than ever, that the life and death issue of Christianity is the inspiration and authority of the Bible.

There Is No Single View on Marriage Presented in the Bible

There is no condition that a godly man or woman can be in, but there is some promise or other in the Scripture to help him in that condition. And that is the way of his contentment, to go to the promises, and get from the promise, that which may supply. This is but a dry business to a carnal heart; but it is the most real thing in the world to a gracious heart: when he finds lack of contentment he repairs to the promise, and the Covenant, and falls to pleading the promises that God has made.

As long as you are at home make your cell your paradise, gather there the varied fruits of scripture, let this be your favourite companion, and take its precepts to your heart.

see the hidden meaning of Scripture in all its fullness (for the word of God is a pearl and may be pierced on every side)