Scripture Quotes

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.

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.

A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it

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?

Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

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

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

I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

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.

A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.

In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.

If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.

If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.

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.

How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting.

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

Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.

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.

It’s not comparing yourself with others who call themselves Christians. Compare yourself to the Scripture.

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

If you don't have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

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.

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

Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.

The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken.

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.

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

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

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.

Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.

Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.

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.

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.

The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.

If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.

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

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

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.

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.