Quotes About Scriptures

No, the missionary efforts of Peter, Stephen, Philip and Paul never urge lost men to do anything other than to repent of sin and bow in faith before Jesus Christ. When they debate, they draw their arguments from the Scriptures (Acts 17:2;

And if we fail to recognize within the Scriptures our Master's voice speaking his infallible truth to us from his world to our world, we destroy ourselves not only epistemically but also personally, for we abandon the only foundation for the certainty of knowledge and the only "meaning base" by which we may truly know the One infinite, personal God and thereby ourselves as persons of dignity and worth.2

The Stones and the Scriptures; The Scriptures and Archaeology; and The World of the First Christians

Jesus was best known as a master of metaphor, a legendary storyteller, and a powerful healer who communicated in signs, images, and gestures. Therefore, to understand Jesus and the Scriptures, we need to train ourselves and others not to exegete more words but to exegete images.

Within the human heart things have taken over. God's gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution."6 We have mixed up what we serve and what we use. Sadly, many serve things and use God; the Scriptures instruct us to do just the opposite.

A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.

Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment

Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.

The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man in direct communication with the mind of God.

The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.

Las personas deben sentirse libres de orar sobre todo lo que les venga a la mente mientras leen un pasaje de las Escrituras.

Los Salmos: una pequeña Biblia Libro por libro, creo que los Salmos son el mejor lugar en las Escrituras para orar la Biblia. Una de las razones, como alguien dijo, es que «los Salmos son como una pequeña Biblia. Cada doctrina de la Biblia está allí: ya sea en capullo o en flor, pero todo está allí».

Pray over the Scriptures. Christians just setting out on the path of prayer sometimes pray for everything they can think of, glance at their watches, and discover they have been at it for all of three or four minutes. This experience sometimes generates feelings of defeat, discouragement, even despair. A great way to begin to overcome this problem is to pray through various biblical passages.

Ours is an undisciplined age. The old disciplines are breaking down. . . . Above all, the discipline of divine grace is derided as legalism or is entirely unknown to a generation that is largely illiterate in the Scriptures. We need the rugged strength of Christian character that can come only from discipline. V. RAYMOND EDMAN

When the Bible was written, society was agrarian. There were no smartphones. No helicopters. "You can't expect us to find answers for these, our postmodern times, in that glaringly pre-modern book." But that is precisely what we should expect. The Scriptures speak to our condition, and because we are wealthy, they speak to it very directly. But we have to be prepared to listen.

42. And mix not truth with falsehood, nor conceal the truth [i.e. Muhammad Peace be upon him is Allaah's Messenger and his qualities are written in your Scriptures, the Tauraat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel)] while you know (the truth) .

The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

We must learn to interpret our experiences by what we know about God through His Word instead of interpreting what God is like by our experiences. If we do not ground our belief about the nature of God and His disposition to us in the Scriptures, we will reject much of what He says about Himself when we face difficulty.

The Scriptures are not so much the goal as they are an arrow that points us to the life-changing Christ

The Jewish faith in Jesus' day was dominated by rabbis—teachers of the law. Their doctrine was thorough. Jesus told them, "You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life" (John 5:39–40, italics added). They knew the written word of God very well, but not the living Word, even as he stood before them.

While we need to look deeply into the Scriptures Jesus knew, we needn't look beyond them for things that aren't there.

Would it surprise you to learn that the rabbis thought that study, and not prayer, was the highest form of worship? They pointed out that when we pray, we speak to God, but that when we study the Scriptures, God speaks to us.

The true Mystic, realising God, has no need of any Scriptures, for he has touched the source whence all Scriptures flow.

Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.