Quotes about Scriptures

In the arena of adversity, the Scriptures teach us three essential truths about God truths we must believe if we are to trust Him in adversity. They are: • God is completely sovereign. God is infinite in wisdom. God is perfect in love.

Yet the Scriptures teach that God does move a person's will, but in such a way that the person acts freely and voluntarily. Furthermore, sovereignty on a human plane suggests force and coercion, people doing things against their wills as in the subjection of slaves to masters, but the Scriptures never portray God's sovereignty in this manner.

It is frequently asserted in the Scriptures that God uses the sinful actions of men to accomplish His purposes.

The Scriptures never indicate that God is frustrated to any degree by our failure to act as we should.

So the Scriptures are infallible and inerrant, but our understanding of them is not. Rather, it is often conditioned by our previous understanding or biases.

God's unfailing love for us is an objective fact affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. It is true whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God's love, nor does our faith create it.

The Old Testament does not tell us everything God was doing everywhere in the world. It's not a biography of God's early years. The Jewish Scriptures describe God's activity in connection to one particular people group.

As a preacher, my charge is to proclaim the message of the Scriptures. To help the people in my congregation become a people of the book. I love getting to do this.

Jesus was best known as a master of metaphor, a legendary storyteller, and a powerful healer who communicated in signs, images, and gestures. Therefore, to understand Jesus and the Scriptures, we need to train ourselves and others not to exegete more words but to exegete images.

Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.

Pray over the Scriptures. Christians just setting out on the path of prayer sometimes pray for everything they can think of, glance at their watches, and discover they have been at it for all of three or four minutes. This experience sometimes generates feelings of defeat, discouragement, even despair. A great way to begin to overcome this problem is to pray through various biblical passages.

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