Quotes about Scripture

But be it ever so small in our own eyes, when we sin we also break God's law. And Scripture says, "Whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it" (James 2:10). God's law is seamless, one complete whole. So when we break any of it, we break the whole law.

The Bible is not merely a book about God; it is a book from God.

Our trust in God must be based, not on someone else's experience, but upon what God has told us about Himself in His Word.

There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

Clearly, the Scripture tells us that we lack the capacity to grasp God's infinite mind or the way He intervenes in our lives. How arrogant of us to think otherwise! Trying to analyze His omnipotence is like an amoeba attempting to comprehend the behavior of man.

Charles Spurgeon underscored this point, saying, "For every text in Scripture, there is a road to the metropolis of the Scriptures, that is Christ. And my dear brother, your business is, when you get to a text, to say, 'Now what is the road to Christ?' . . . I have never yet found a text that had not got a road to Christ in it."51

It is not a church's job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.

God's Word, when rightly expounded, is medicinal for a whole host of spiritual diseases.

Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.

In Scripture we read of two kinds of men-the spiritual man controlled by the Holy Spirit, and the "carnal" man who is ruled by his passions.

Memorizing Scripture strengthens your faith because it repeatedly reinforces the truth, often just when you need to hear it again.