Quotes About Scripture

The most tried and true way to put God first is to read His Word, the Bible, and obey it. There are no shortcuts to spiritual growth.

Memorizing Scripture strengthens your faith because it repeatedly reinforces the truth, often just when you need to hear it again.

yo sostengo que eso no pasaría mucho si se ciñeran a orar mientras leen el texto. De esta forma, el Espíritu de Dios usará la Palabra de Dios para ayudar al pueblo de Dios a orar cada vez más de acuerdo a la voluntad de Dios.

Si usted desea ser transformado, si quiere ser más semejante a Jesucristo, disciplínese para leer la Biblia.

In most Christian circles you will rarely hear fasting mentioned, and few will have read anything about it. And yet it's mentioned in Scripture more times even than something as important as baptism (about seventy-seven times for fasting to seventy-five for baptism).

little input of God's Word results in little resemblance to God's Son.

Debido a que Dios inspiró las Escrituras, crea que lo que lee fue destinado para usted, al menos de alguna manera que se asocia con Cristo, así como para los primeros que recibieron el mensaje. Sin esa actitud, rara vez percibirá la aplicación de un pasaje de las Escrituras a su situación personal.

Porque mientras mejor entendamos la Biblia, más preparados estaremos para aplicarla

According to James 1:22-25, we can experience God's truth so powerfully that what the Lord wants us to do becomes as plain to us as our face in the morning mirror. But if we do not apply the truth as we meet it, regardless of how wonderful the experience of discovering the truth has been, we deceive ourselves if we think we will be blessed for giving attention to the Bible on those occasions. The one who "will be blessed in his doing" is the one who does what Scripture says.

La solución bíblica, simple y permanente Entonces, ¿cuál es la solución simple a la rutina aburrida de decir siempre las mismas cosas acerca de lo mismo de siempre? Aquí está: Cuando ores, ora a través de un pasaje de las Escrituras, de manera particular a través de un salmo.

Regardless of how busy we become with all things Christian, we must remember that the most transforming practice available to us is the disciplined intake of Scripture.

El método Los Salmos: fueron diseñados para ser orados. Gordon Wenham

Take every word as spoken to yourselves. When the word thunders against sin, think thus: "God means my sins;" when it presseth any duty, "God intends me in this." Many put off Scripture from themselves, as if it only concerned those who lived in the time when it was written; but if you intend to profit by the word, bring it home to yourselves: a medicine will do no good, unless it be applied.9

Si no entiendes el significado del versículo, ve al siguiente. Si el significado de ese versículo es muy claro, pero nada viene a tu mente para orar, pasa al siguiente. Solo habla con el Señor acerca de todo aquello que se te ocurre mientras lees la Palabra, sin prisa. Hazlo aun si —y esta parte del libro es, la más factible de ser mal interpretada— lo que viene a tu mente no tiene nada que ver con el texto.

Podríamos llevar «todo en oración» delante de Dios. Podemos orar por todo. Cada persona, objeto, tema, circunstancia, temor, situación: todo en el universo es lo que podemos llevar delante de Dios. Por lo tanto, cada pensamiento que entra en tu mente mientras estás leyendo un pasaje de la Escritura —aun si tal pensamiento no tiene que ver con el texto que está delante de ti en ese momento— es algo que puedes llevar delante de Dios.

He has revealed Himself generally to us through creation, but more specifically through the Word.

Tengo suficiente confianza en la Palabra y en el Espíritu de Dios como para creer que, si la gente ora de esa manera, en el largo plazo sus oraciones serán más bíblicas que si ellos solo crean sus propias oraciones.

The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.

What value is there to reading one, three, or more chapters of Scripture only to find that after you've finished, you can't recall a thing you've read? It's better to read a small amount of Scripture and meditate on it than to read an extensive section without meditation.

To read the Bible and not to meditate was seen as an unfruitful exercise: better to read one chapter and meditate afterward than to read several chapters and not to meditate.

To pray the Bible, you simply go through the passage line by line, talking to God about whatever comes to mind as you read the text.

No Spiritual Discipline is more important than the intake of God's Word. Nothing can substitute for it. There simply is no healthy Christian life apart from a diet of the milk and meat of Scripture.

Thus no other object on earth is as valuable as the Bible, for nothing else can provide anything as essential or eternal.

Open the Bible, start reading it, and pause at every verse and turn it into a prayer. John Piper