Quotes About Scripture

The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship.

You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.

This misreading of Scripture arises from combining our individualism with a more subtle, deeply hidden and deeply rooted aspect of our Western worldview: we still think the universe centers around us.

Some of these proverbs sound as if they come from Scripture (and many people believe they do), like this one: 'God helps those who help themselves'-which is likely anti-biblical. God helps those who rely on him.

We can easily forget that Scripture is a foreign land and that reading the Bible is a crosscultural experience.

Science and The Word of God There is a constant effort made to explain the work of creation as the result of natural causes; and human reasoning is accepted even by professed Christians, in opposition to plain Scripture facts. There are many who oppose the investigation of the prophecies, especially those of Daniel

The New Testament alone refers to this awesome event 321 times—in one out of every thirty verses—

He is not a Muslim. Nothing in the Bible indicates that he is. Everything in Scripture implies the Antichrist is coming from Europe, from the Western world. He will be leading Gentiles.

Actually, reading the Bible was the factor that had the highest correlation with every other factor of discipleship. Now when people ask me, "How do we get people to witness?" "How do we get people to serve others?" or "How do we get people to pray?" I give them the same answer: Get people to read the Bible.

Scripture: inputting spiritual/gospel truth

Through Scripture, we hear Christ's voice speaking into the outrage, giving us wisdom rather than forcing us to seek it from the chaotic masses. Through prayer, we cast our anxieties and fears upon Christ rather than pouring them out into a vat of outrage. Through fasting, we remind ourselves of the soul's dependence upon Christ and the insufficiency of everything else.

Scripture teaches us to contend for the faith (Jude 3) and contextualize to culture (1 Cor. 9:22-23).

The Scripture moveth us, in sundry places, to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness.

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

And he [Moses] was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

We believe in God, and in that which has been sent down on us and sent down on Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac and Jacob, and the Tribes, and that which was given to Moses and Jesus and the Prophets, of their Lord; we make no division between any of them, and to Him we surrender.

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond.

For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

Of all forms of commentary on the divine Word, a translation is the most subtle.

What is scripture, then? It's a hint, a clue, not a description. The fanaticism of one sincere believer who thinks he knows causes more evil than the united efforts of two hundred rogues. It's terrifying to see what sincere believers will do because they think they know.

He'd believe anything provided it's not in Holy Scripture.

The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.