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• When the honest, sincere Christian is faced with the decision regarding whether a thing is right or wrong, he should ask, does it agree with all that the Scripture has to say on the subject?

  Curtis Hutson

  Christian, Decision, Doe

  Curtis Hutson (2000). “Bread for Believers”, p.278, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.

  Martin Chemnitz

  Writing, Church, Doctrine

  Martin Chemnitz (1971). “Examination of the Council of Trent”

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• Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.

  Martin Chemnitz

  Father, Praise, Diligence

  Martin Chemnitz (1971). “Examination of the Council of Trent”

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• While the Christian message is increasingly becoming less acceptable in fashionable society, we must be always living according to Scripture and prepared to be apologists for Jesus Christ in all aspects of our lives.

  Jonathan Falwell

  Christian, Jesus, Messages

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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

  Poor, Reaching, Committed

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• I have serious problems with fundamentalist Christians and their creationist theories. Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days. My skepticism is due, in part, to the fact that the Bible says that the sun wasn’t created until the fourth day of creation (Genesis 1:16-19). I have a hard time figuring how twenty-four hour days could have been measured before that.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Believe, Hard Times

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• One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the scriptures contain all the knowledge required to deal with the problems of contemporary society.

  Arnold Beichman

  Block, Middle East, Entering

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• We cannot have faith without belief, but we can believe without having faith. Belief is the foundation of faith. Faith is trusting in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. The scriptures contain many assurances of salvation to those who exercise faith and obey the commandments... Faith is the motivating force that impels action.

  O. Leslie Stone

  Jesus, Believe, Exercise

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• My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Teacher, Jobs

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• In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the dark. So faith and reason cooperate on a biblical view of faith. They are not intrinsically hostile.

  J.P. Moreland

  Believe, Dark, Biblical

  J. P. Moreland, William Lane Craig (2009). “Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview”, p.18, InterVarsity Press

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• But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

  John Nelson Darby

  Real, Character, Giving

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• During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

  John Nelson Darby

  Exercise, Soul, Solitude

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• The emphasis in Scripture is not the amount we give, but the attitude with which we give.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Attitude, Giving, Emphasis

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• According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The first thing that came out of man is the blues because, according to the Scriptures, when God made man, man was lonesome and blue.

  Willie Dixon

  Biblical, Men, Blue

  Willie Dixon, Don Snowden (1989). “I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story”

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• Church of Jesus, let us please be men and women who understand the difference between moralism and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Let’s be careful to preach the dos and don’ts of Scripture in the shadow of the cross’s ‘Done!’

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Men, Differences

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• We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Believe, Men

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• The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.

  John Flavel

  Life, Bible, Christian

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• Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may have become by being long entertained, so soon as it is seen to be contrary to the Bible, we must be prepared to abandon it without hesitation.

  William Symington

  Long, May, Sides

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• So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to penetrate the surface with more than just a cursory glance.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Able, Study, Surface

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.54, Moody Publishers

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• The Bible is not a book like any other. It makes a claim that God spoke and speaks through its message. It argues that as his creatures, we are accountable to him for what he has revealed. The trustworthiness of Scripture points to its authority as well. Scripture is far more than a history book, as good and trustworthy as that history is. It is a book that calls us to examine our lives and relationship to God. Beyond the fascinating history, it contains vital and life-transforming truths about God and us.

  Darrell Bock

  Book, Messages, Arguing

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• Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the scriptures, and next, credible histories, especially of the Church... but take heed of false teachers who would corrupt your understandings.

  Richard Baxter

  Teacher, Book, Choices

  "A Christian Directory: Or, a Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases of Conscience Directing". Book by Richard Baxter, 1673.

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• Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou art by grace obliged to; as private prayer, reading the scriptures, and Christian conference. It is a base thing for men so to spend themselves and families after this world, as that they disengage their heart to God's worship.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Art, Prayer

  JOHN BUNYAN (1860). “THE ENTIRE WORKS”, p.171

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• Jesus has revealed Himself in the Scripture. If we want to know Him, if we want to know the Truth, we must devote ourselves to the reading, study, and meditation of His Word

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Jesus, Reading, Meditation

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2007). “Lies Women Believe/Companion Guide for Lies Women Believe- 2 book set”, p.162, Moody Publishers

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• Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.

  Martin Luther

  Christ, Masters, Servant

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• The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.

  John Calvin

  Christ, Should, Aim

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