Scripture Quotes

• Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Biblical, Beer

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• ...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If you understood only one passage in all of Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. It will be this passage God asks you about. Do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. God's Word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Order, Gains

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• The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

  Saint Augustine

  Bible, Christian, Home

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• Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Believe, Practice, Deny

  David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1976). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”

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• The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Bible, Religious

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• Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds

  Paul the Apostle

  Bible, Submission To God, Priorities In Life

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• We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

  Hosea Ballou

  Rules Of Life

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  Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, Christian, Book

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”

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

  John the Apostle

  Biblical, Tongue, Action

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• A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.

  William Cowper

  Light, Giving, Age

  William Cowper (1855). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems : Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.677

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• Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.

  Noah Webster

  Bible, God, Education

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• The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Majesty, Admiration

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1767). “The Miscellaneous Works of Mr. J. J. Rousseau”, p.224

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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

  Praying, Busier, Ifs

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• We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspirational, Thinking, Lines

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• If God is for us, who can be against us?

  Paul the Apostle

  Bible, God, Christian

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, Faith, God

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.43, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Bible, Christian, Deep Thought

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• The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Wind, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Problem”

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• We must stress that the basis for our faith is neither experience nor emotion but the truth as God has given it in verbalized, prepositional form in the Scripture and which we first of all apprehend with our minds.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Stress, Mind, Firsts

  Francis August Schaeffer (1972). “The new super-spirituality”, IVP Books

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• God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to him. He must disclose to us who he is before we can offer him what we are in acceptable worship. The worship of God is always a response to the Word of God. Scripture wonderfully directs and enriches our worship.

  John Stott

  Prayer, Liberty, Worship

  John Stott (1992). “The contemporary Christian: an urgent plea for double listening”

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• For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Unseen Things, Bible Verse, Eternal

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• One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Thinking, Credit

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.91

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• It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.

  John Stott

  Christian, Impossible, Life Is

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• The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.

  Francis Chan

  Ideas, Holding Back

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.91, David C Cook

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• Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Adversity, Fire, Secret

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