Quotes about Scripture

The great evangelist D. L. Moody once said, "The Bible was not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.

Inductive Bible study draws you into personal interaction with the Scripture and thus with the God of the Scriptures so that your beliefs are based on a prayerful understanding and legitimate interpretation of Scripture—truth that transforms you when you live by it.

I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.

The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.

Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

It is impossible to worship God acceptably and not come to Him in right relationship to...the Word of God.

It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

Mark it down—your progress in holiness will never exceed your relationship with the holy Word of God.

I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.

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.

It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.