Quotes About Scripture

Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You. – Psalm 119:11

Memorizing Scripture gives us: 1. Clearer thoughts. 2. Steadier nerves. 3. Healthier emotions. 4. Purer habits. 5. Happier homes. 6. Greater respect. 7. Eternal optimism. Isn't that worth at least five minutes a day?

the need to prioritize prayer, reverence for the Eucharist, the importance of solitude, and the call to immerse oneself in sacred Scripture.

To have faith in Christ is to believe in him, and, as Stephen Robinson pointed out beautiful in his book Believing Christ (Deseret Book, 1992), it is to believe what the Lord says.

The apostolic model of exposition of, reflection upon, and deduction from Scripture supports our engagement in the theological enterprise. If we are to help our generation understand the Scriptures, we too must deduce and arrange conclusions from what we have gained from our exegetical labors in Scripture and be ready to "dialogue" with men. Engagement in and the result of this task is theology.

But He is a God of love only as far as His justice, holiness, and righteousness will permit! His justice never contradicts His love and His love is in perfect harmony with his justice. If your doctrine makes them oppose one another, your theology is out of sync with Scripture.

As for doctrine, Luther asserted the absolute authority of Holy Scripture and that each human must discover the meaning of scripture and establish his or her own, personal relationship with God.

God promised a blessing to those who read, hear, and keep the Word of God. This means he will help us understand it.

How vital then that we come to know God's Word as a familiar friend: Even the Holy Spirit cannot cause us to remember something we never learned!

Alaska Airlines would have been cheaper, but Reacher hated Alaska Airlines. They put a scripture card on their meal trays. Ruined his appetite.

Os puritanos sabiam que a Escritura é a regra inalterada da santidade, e eles nunca se permitiram esquecer disso.

Charles Spurgeon underscored this point, saying, "For every text in Scripture, there is a road to the metropolis of the Scriptures, that is Christ. And my dear brother, your business is, when you get to a text, to say, 'Now what is the road to Christ?' . . . I have never yet found a text that had not got a road to Christ in it."51

The words of Scripture are plain: God hates greed. It's ugly. It breeds other sins. It consumes and controls us. We can't get rid of greed with a halfhearted wish or a token prayer. We must wholeheartedly come before the Lord and beg Him to remove this wretched leech with her long-reaching tentacles.

So the first reason for studying Scripture is that it is a means of spiritual growth. There is none apart from the Word. It is God's primary tool to develop you as an individual.

It is not a church's job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.

Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy!

The only things that really need to be accomplished in the home are daily scripture study and prayer and weekly family home evening.

God's Word, when rightly expounded, is medicinal for a whole host of spiritual diseases.

Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.

For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.

Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity.

In Scripture we read of two kinds of men-the spiritual man controlled by the Holy Spirit, and the "carnal" man who is ruled by his passions.

Christians should read and meditate the upon the Word of God which sustains and directs their spiritual lives.

I´ve read the first pages of the script, it´s all about Jesus, He is the principal performer.