Quotes about Scripture

Scripture is so clear that love for God must translate into love for those closest to us.2

If God really did write a book, we ought to be reading it, studying it, memorizing it, and letting it guide our lives.

if I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.

For many Charismatics, Scripture is not simply a book to be read and studied, but it is an invitation into a lifestyle of supernatural engagement. Truly, such followers of Jesus desire to be doers of the Word, not hearers only. This should be celebrated rather than rejected.

There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man.

The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.

A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.

The natural man "cannot see or discern that divine excellency in the Scripture, without an apprehension whereof no man can believe it aright to be the word of God."

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.