Quotes About Scriptures

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.

Renew your mind daily by reading the Holy Scriptures.

Meditation on the Holy Scriptures is sweet to the soul.

Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures.

Without the knowledge of the Scriptures, we fail to pray effectively.

Thou must bestow some time for thy diligent search after truth. Truth lies deep, and must be digged for. Since man was turned out of paradise, he can do nothing without labour except sin (this follows his hand indeed), but this treasure of knowledge calls for spade and mattock. We are bid 'search the Scriptures.

So that now all those ways whereby God directly made known his mind to this people, are resolved into this one of the Scriptures, which we are to receive as the undoubted word of God, containing in a perfect rule of faith and life, and to expect no other revelation of his mind to us.

Bless God for the translation of the Scriptures. The word is our sword. By being translated, this sword is drawn out of its scabbard.

The Spirit is the only true interpreter of the word. Hence that known passage of Bernard: quo spiritu factæ sunt Scripturæ, eo spiritu legi desi derant, ipso etiam intelligendæ sunt—the Scriptures must be read, and can be understood, by that Spirit alone by whom they were made.

Study may make one a great scholar in the Scriptures, but prayer makes a wise Christian, as it obtains sanctified knowledge, without which it is no perfect gift, but —a gift and no gift.

No solo las Escrituras implican fuertemente la creación ex nihilo, sino que la evidencia empírica de un comienzo absoluto del universo parece tener ramificaciones teológicas trascendentales

Thomas's procedure, then, may be summarized in three steps: (1) Fulfilled prophecies and miracles make it credible that the Scriptures taken together as a whole are a revelation from God. (2) As a revelation from God, Scripture is absolutely authoritative. (3) Therefore, those doctrines taught by Scripture that are neither demonstrably provable nor empirically evident may be accepted by faith on the authority of Scripture.

El hombre que aprende de memoria grandes porciones de las Escrituras enriquece su propia vida y aumenta su potencial para bendecir a los demás, si

las Escrituras deben llegar a ser una parte tan importante de nuestras vidas que moldeen nuestra conversación dondequiera que estemos y cualquier cosa que hagamos. Debemos

wickedness does not promote rational thought. This is, in fact, a major message of the scriptures.

Instead of appealing to human authorities, institutions, and traditions, an apostolic church challenges people to encounter God for themselves, to search the Scriptures to find truth, and to follow God's ways instead of social expectations.

18th April, 1872.—I pray the good Lord of all to favour me so as to allow me to discover the ancient fountains of Herodotus, and if there is anything in the underground excavations to confirm the precious old documents (Ä ²¹²»1±), the Scriptures of truth, may He permit me to bring it to light, and give me wisdom to make a proper use of it.

Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says.

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

The Scriptures sprang out of God.