Scripture Quotes - Page 24

• Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have denounced it if he had known of it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Doubt, Butlers, Tobacco

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.50, Routledge

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• Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the Scriptures.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Dying, Sin

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• It is scripture alone, not conservative Evangelical tradition or any other human authority, that must function as the normative authority for the definition of what we should believe. The authority of the scripture means that all the words in scripture are God's words in such a way that to disbelieve or disobey any word of scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God.

  Wayne Grudem

  Believe, Mean, Way

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• The statistics reveal a failure of nerve on the part of many Christians. They seem to be simply unable to muster the strength necessary to develop a tenacious commitment to the truthfulness of Scripture.

  Douglas Groothuis

  Christian, Commitment, Nerves

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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

  Swim, Drink, Enough

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• The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

  John Ortberg

  Goal

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.184, Harper Collins

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• So, you want to be like Christ? Me too. But that kind of godliness won't just happen by hanging around a church or thinking lofty thoughts three or four times a day or learning a few verses of Scripture. It will take more - much more. Disciplining ourselves will require the same kind of focused thinking and living that our Master modeled during His brief life on earth.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Thinking, Church, Three

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• The concept of freedom in Scripture differs from modern notions. Freedom is not a life lived free of restraints but a life that recognizes healthy limits, those that are concern to produce prosperity and order for the person who observes them.

  Max Anders

  Order, Healthy, Limits

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• The fear of God does not come naturally to human beings; it must be learned through Scripture, worship, and the hard knocks of experience.

  Max Anders

  Doe, Worship, Humans

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• We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Sensitive, Gods Will, Application

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• Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.

  Wayne Grudem

  Doctrine, Sake, Isolation

  Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us.

  Steven J Lawson

  Authority

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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

  Broken, Perfect, Made

  Twitter post from Jan 13, 2015

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• Intellectual methods-study and reason-are essential to our progress toward eternal life, but they are not sufficient. They can prepare the way. They can get the mind ready to receive the Spirit. But what the scriptures call conversion-the change of mind and heart that gives us the direction and strength to move resolutely toward eternal life-comes only by the witness and power of the Holy Spirit.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Moving, Heart, Giving

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• Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.

  Rachel Held Evans

  People, Speak, Found

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.180, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Sacred scripture is of course the basic authority for everything; yet I sometimes run across ancient sayings or pagan writings - even the poets - so purely and reverently and admirably expressed that I can't help believing the author's hearts were moved by some divine power. And perhaps the spirit of Christ is more widespread than we understand, and the company of the saints includes many not on our calendar.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Running, Believe, Writing

  Desiderius Erasmus (1965). “The Colloquies of Erasmus”, Chicago, 1965- .

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• Therefore 'Christ hath tasted death for every man:' not only for all kinds of men, as some vainly talk, but for every one, of all kinds; the benefit of whose offering is not only extended to such, who have the distinct outward knowledge of his death and sufferings, as the same is declared in the scriptures, but even unto those who are necessarily excluded from the benefit of this knowledge by some inevitable accident.

  Robert Barclay

  Men, Offering, Suffering

  Robert Barclay (1850). “An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines”, p.13

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• The God who inspired the Bible is the same God who made the universe, Earth, and all life. This God is the very definition of truth; therefore nature's record will never contradict Scripture and vice versa. When a seeming contradiction confronts us, we can know with certainty we have either misunderstood (one, the other, or both revelations) or perhaps we haven't yet dug deploy enough. Whatever the case, we can embrace the opportunity to gain greater knowledge and appreciation for the Bible, for nature, and for the God who is responsible for both.

  Hugh Ross

  Appreciation, Opportunity, Misunderstood

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• The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Monk, Holy, Distinction

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• Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Ignorance, Two, Facts

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

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Inspired, Holy, Preaching

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• We are to believe and follow Christ in all things, including his words about Scripture. And this means that Scripture is to be for us what it was to him: the unique, authoritative, and inerrant Word of God, and not merely a human testimony to Christ, however carefully guided and preserved by God. If the Bible is less than this to us, we are not fully Christ's disciples.

  James Montgomery Boice

  Believe, Mean, Unique

  James Montgomery Boice (1978). “The Foundation of Biblical authority”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. 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

  Wish, Acting, Inward

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• In the Scriptures be the fat pastures of the soul; therein is no venomous meat, no unwholesome thing; they be the very dainty and pure feeding. He that is ignorant, shall find there what he should learn.

  Thomas Cranmer

  Soul, Ignorant, Meat

  Thomas Cranmer, Henry Jenkyns (1833). “The Remains of Thomas Cranmer”, p.111

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• God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.

  J. I. Packer

  Father, Son, Spirit

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