Quotes about Scripture
Most counseling cases today involve good desires that have become overgrown. In these cases most relevant passages of Scripture may not be those that rebut particular manifestations of sin, but those that remind us to love God with all our hearts.
- James MacDonald
Scripture is so clear that love for God must translate into love for those closest to us.2
- James MacDonald
If God really did write a book, we ought to be reading it, studying it, memorizing it, and letting it guide our lives.
- James MacDonald
if I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.
- Randy Alcorn
For many Charismatics, Scripture is not simply a book to be read and studied, but it is an invitation into a lifestyle of supernatural engagement. Truly, such followers of Jesus desire to be doers of the Word, not hearers only. This should be celebrated rather than rejected.
- Randy Clark
There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
- Laurence Sterne
The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.
- Charles Spurgeon
A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.
- JC Ryle
The natural man "cannot see or discern that divine excellency in the Scripture, without an apprehension whereof no man can believe it aright to be the word of God."
- John Owen
The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.
- Charles Spurgeon
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.
- William Tyndale