Quotes About Scriptures

I start work by spending time in personal Bible study. Because my projects center on a question in my own faith walk, I find Bible study essential. And God gives me scriptures daily that speak to the question with which I'm struggling.

The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.

Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear

God's justice is subordinate to his love, for his justice is a property of his character, but his love is his essential self. For do not the Scriptures say, "God is love," but never, "God is justice"?

Apparently Washington's adage of "deeds not words" was utilized to convey to his grandson the importance of the Sabbath, the significance of regular worship, and the value of the reading of the scriptures. Conway's charges are eviscerated in light of the testimony of the one who was allegedly not evangelized by Washington!

Judaism, the one and only directly and divinely revealed religion in the world

the message and impact of the prophets and, second, the compilation of the Hebrew scriptures which, far from being the divinely inspired word of God, are, like all holy writings, clearly a set of documents produced by human hands with a specific aim.73

The Hindu scriptures declare that those who habitually speak the truth will develop the power of materializing their words. What commands they utter from the heart will come true in life.

Why do we love to read the Scriptures daily? Because they speak to us of home. Why do we live differently from those around us? Because we remember that we are soon going home (1 Peter 4:1–7). Why

Does one approach the Scriptures (or any other influential document or collection of documents in the history of world civilization) with a hermeneutics of consent or a hermeneutics of suspicion? Christians have not done well in trying to read literature from other religions empathetically, and atheists and adherents of other world religions today increasingly approach the Bible with preexisting hostility.

I did read Indian scriptures when we could get the English versions, but the problem was I never took the time to learn the language. Really, what it comes down to is that I knew the emotion of faith; I knew what my parents were trying to teach me, but we always said 'No' when my mom was trying to teach us Punjabi.

what God does. He sovereignly picks a man up out of the kingdom of Satan, and places him in the kingdom of heaven. Those are the elect that are referred to some 25 times in the Scriptures: Matt. 24:22: "For the elect's sake, whom he chose, he shortened those days" (at the destruction of Jerusalem). I Thess. 1:4: "Knowing, brethren, beloved of God, your election." Rom. 11:7: "The election obtained it, and the rest were hardened." Rom. 8:33: "Who shall lay anything to charge

the holy Scriptures…are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus" (2 Timothy 3:15).

Yes, but those people simply don't understand the will of God in all this. The scriptures are quite clear about the basis for slavery. I know some would have us go against God's will, but they are simply ignorant.

The human body, again, is the greatest of its kind in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is higher than all the animals and all the angels, so say the Scriptures. None is greater than man, for even the Devas or gods will have to come down again and attain salvation through a human body. For, man alone attains to perfection, and not even the Devas.

a Jewish convert to the Church, Henry Miller, who discovered that the entire Book of Mormon could be written on 41 pages if the Hebrew alphabet were used and on 81 pages if the ancient Semitic alphabet (sometimes called Phoenician or Old Israelitic) were used. Photographic plates of Henry Miller's translations will be found on pages 40 and 41 of J. M. Sjodahl's book, An Introduction To the Study of the Book of Mormon.

The fact that no material from brahminical Hindu scriptures or the Qur'an is included is easily explained. Either it could result in the charge that the Gurus were merely plagiarists or to the assertion that they did accept the authority of these scriptures. What they certainly were is eclectic in their view of scripture, refusing to claim that God spoke only through the revelation that was given to them.

I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.

Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

When you study by listening directly to the teacher, it is like turning an attentive ear to our body, and that is Dahnhak. All scriptures are a kind of teachings, and the means to get to the Truth, but they are not the Truth itself. The awakened can feel the Truth. When this is translated into words and letters, they get to lose the heart and soul of the Truth. -- from "The Way to Light Up Your Divinity

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us the Lord will provide.

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.

Defining evangelism in a biblical way helps us align our evangelistic practice with the Scriptures. Here's a definition that has served me well for many years: Evangelism is teaching the gospel with the aim to persuade.