Quotes on Scripture

Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us.

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. _x000D_ The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, _x000D_ but sevenfold; _x000D_ they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.

Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.

And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped, the less it danced, or words to that effect, I shall carry on as planned.

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.

I revere the fullness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and creation. In the gospel moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His Word.

It is good to read the testimonies of Scripture; it is good to seek the Lord our God in them. As for me, however, I have already made so much of Scripture my own that I have more than enough to meditate on and turn over in my mind. I need no more . .. I know Christ, the poor crucified One.

Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of the life back into the harbor of the divine will.

By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof.

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

Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.

As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures.

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.