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Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.
Martin Luther
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Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.
Adi Shankara
Verbal oratory, verbosity, and having dexterity in elucidating scriptures are solely for the entertainment of the educated. They do not bring about freedom.
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A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it
Martin Luther
A humble worshipper equipped with the Bible is more powerful than the most influential pontiff without it.
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All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?
Paul Washer
My lack of spiritual fortitude can be attributed to ignoring my relationship with the Lord through shoddy Bible study and prayer. How much longer will it take for me to understand this?
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Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.
John Wycliffe
Sacred Writ is the utmost authority for every adherent, the yardstick of belief and the basis for transformation.
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
St. Jerome
Internalize the Scripture as your passion... Immerse yourself in them, contemplate them, make them the focal point of your learning and investigations.
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All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof.
John Wycliffe
All Christian living should be judged by the Bible; each and every word of it.
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Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.
George Muller
Gaining familiarity with God is achievable if we diligently probe His Sacred Writings & act upon what we uncover.
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I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope.
William Tyndale
I will ensure that an individual who ploughs the field has a greater mastery of holy writings than the Bishop of Rome.
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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
Sri Aurobindo
The Sacred Reality is more powerful than any faith, dogma, writing, concept or worldview.
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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
St. Jerome
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a novice to come and imbibe without fear of being overwhelmed and profound enough for scholars to explore without ever hitting the limit.
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
St. Jerome
A distorted reading of Scripture leads to the perversion of Christ's gospel by human or even sinister forces.
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In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.
John Wesley
The Bible should be the ultimate authority, not the Church.
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If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.
John Owen
If personal visions correspond to the Bible, they are superfluous, and if they contradict, they are erroneous.
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If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.
George Muller
If the Holy Spirit directs us, He will act in accordance with the Scriptures and never in opposition to them.
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We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.
Alistair Begg
'We discover the presence of Christ in all Scriptural accounts. In the Old Testament He is foretold, in the Gospels He is disclosed, in Acts He is proclaimed, in the epistles He is elucidated and in Revelation He is awaited.'
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How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting.
John Hagee
Deceive us - By distorting Scripture. By causing us to wander off the right path. By encouraging us to rationalize instead of contritely accepting our errors.
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Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says.
Joyce Meyer
Cease evaluating yourself based on the opinions of others and be guided by what is declared in Scripture.
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Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
John the Apostle
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If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.
Matt Chandler
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We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God's, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.
John Stott
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It’s not comparing yourself with others who call themselves Christians. Compare yourself to the Scripture.
Paul Washer
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No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.
Martin Luther
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If you don't have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be.
Matthew Kelly
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
Tertullian
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I am convinced that each of us, at some time in our lives, must discover the scriptures for ourselves—and not just discover them once, but rediscover them again and again.
Spencer W. Kimball
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Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.
Cyprian
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We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the Gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith
Irenaeus of Lyons
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The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.
Athanasius of Alexandria
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Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.
Karl Barth
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Those who believe the Author of Nature to be also the Author of Scripture must expect to find in Scripture the same sorts of difficulties that they find in Nature.
Origen
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To realize that the Holy Scriptures are a revelation from the Most High, communicating to us His mind and defining for us His will, is the first step toward practical godliness. To recognize that the Bible is God's Word, and that its precepts are the precepts of the Almighty, will lead us to see what an awful thing it is to despise and ignore them.
Arthur W. Pink
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We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.
Rich Mullins
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Scripture is not a concept; scripture is a person (John 1:1,14). When you stand before the Word of God, you are not merely encountering a concept; you are standing face-to-face with God.
Henry Blackaby
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There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that tell us we must be committed to protecting the poor and the oppressed... There is no concern of Scripture that is addressed so often and so powerfully as reaching out to the poor.
Tony Campolo
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Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken.
Trip Lee
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they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not another, contrary to all scriptures.
William Tyndale
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Whereof it followeth Rome to be the seat of antichrist, and the pope to be very antichrist himself. I could prove the same by many other scriptures, old writers, and strong reasons.
Thomas Cranmer
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
B. R. Ambedkar
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Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.
Andrew Jackson
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
Galileo Galilei
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But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
John Calvin
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The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.
John Owen
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The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.
Martin Luther
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The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.
Howard G. Hendricks
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
Galileo Galilei
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When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
Eugene H. Peterson
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Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a source of stimulation, and nothing more... Adopted, rather than used as a stimulus, they are a hindrance.
Wei Wu Wei