Quotes About Scriptures

There's different ways to be impacted by truth. One is to read the scriptures. Another is to read other works by other people who have read the scriptures, non fiction for example. Another is to do studies. Another is to go to a place of worship. Another thing is to sit and listen to someone who's speaking. There's all kinds of ways. Another way is to write. About the truth. Discover the struggle through your character.

There's nothing quite like the scriptures for killing faith stone dead. Actually reading them and thinking about what they said evaporated my belief like spit on a hot stove.

When St Antony of Egypt was asked, "What rules shall I keep so as to please God?", he replied: "Wherever you go, have God always before your eyes; in whatever you do or say, have an example from the Holy Scriptures; and whatever the place in which you dwell, do not be quick to move elsewhere. Keep these three things, and you will live.

The only pure and all-sufficient source of the doctrines of the faith", writes Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow, "is the revealed word of God, contained in the Holy Scriptures.

Whatever our level of education, we can truly read and understand the Scriptures in the light of our faith in Jesus, the living Word, who is present and speaks to us today in and through his Church. Outside of that faith, no one can do theology or understand Scripture as God intends it to be understood.

Although the church is more ancient than the Scriptures formally considered (and as to the mode of writing), yet it cannot be called such with respect to the Scriptures materially considered (and as to the substance of the doctrine) because the Word of God is more ancient than the church itself, being its foundation and seed.

every time Jesus mentioned the Torah, he qualified it with something like this: "The scriptures say thus and so, but I say…" I should have said, "Jesus undermined the inerrancy of the scriptures in favor of his version of pragmatic empathy!" or "Every time Jesus undermined the scriptures it was to err on the side of nonjudgmental co-suffering love. So up yours

This does not mean that the knowledge of the world, church history, theology, philosophy, and the Scriptures is without value. Such knowledge can be very useful.[105] But it is not central. Theological competence and a high-voltage intellect alone do not qualify a person to serve in God's house.

The Bible is not religion; it is a history of those who had religion. The religion of those who live within the covers of the Bible centered in living oracles and the ordinances of salvation. Theirs was a religion of prophets and apostles

We cannot will ourselves to accept grace. There are no magic words, preset formulas, or esoteric rites of passage. Only Jesus Christ sets us free from indecision. The Scriptures offer no other basis for conversion than the personal magnetism of the Master.

One good way to listen is to listen with a sacred text: a psalm or a prayer, for instance. The Hindu spiritual writer Eknath Easwaran showed me the great value of learning a sacred text by heart and repeating it slowly in the mind, word by word, sentence by sentence. In this way, listening to the voice of love becomes not just a passive waiting, but an active attentiveness to the voice that speaks to us through the words of the Scriptures.

The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting.

We treasure the word of God not only by reading the words of the scriptures, but by studying them. We may be nourished more by pondering a few words, allowing the Holy Ghost to make them treasures to us, than to pass quickly and superficially over whole chapters of scripture.

If you wish to know the truth, read the holy Scriptures.

Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures help us to build a strong trust in the truth of God.

The Holy Scriptures are spiritual truths.

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

When we want to speak to God, we pray. And when we want Him to speak to us, we search the scriptures.

If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.

De manera que el liderazgo de tu familia comienza con tu tiempo a solas con Dios. Es sumamente importante para el hombre apartar un tiempo cada día para orar, leer las Escrituras y poner el corazón en sintonía con el de Dios.

Three major forces largely shaped the world in which Christianity was born and developed: the Scriptures and traditions of Judaism, the culture of Greece, and the political power of Rome.

Thomas Watson who said, "The Scriptures are the library of the Holy Ghost.… The Scriptures contain in it the credenda, 'the things which we are to believe,' and the agenda, 'the things which we are to practice.'" I need to make sure I visit that library every day.

You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me…" (John 5:39).

There is a division in the Scriptures between the two covenants, but the one constant seamless message of the whole Bible is the grace of our Father revealed through the Son by the ministry of the Spirit.