1 Timothy Bible Quotes

#1. Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

Timothy Keller

#2. About two-thirds of Americans believe that the Bible "answers all or most of the basic questions of life" - and 28 percent of them admit that they rarely or never read it!

Timothy Beal

#3. We tend to think of the Bible as a book of answers to our questions, and it is that. However, if we really let the text speak, we may find that God will show us that we are not even asking the right questions.

Timothy J. Keller

#4. Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever. That is what the Christian faith promises.

Timothy Keller

#5. How do we counter the trend of worldliness? We must saturate our minds, hearts, and souls with God's Word. The Bible says, "Train yourself to be godly" (1 Timothy 4:7).

Billy Graham

#6. In areas where the Bible has left us free, when we carry out Christian ministry, we should be constantly engaged in cultural adaptation - refraining from certain attitudes or behaviors to remove unnecessary stumbling blocks from the paths of people with culturally framed perceptions.

Timothy Keller

#7. If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?

Timothy Keller

#8. Expository preaching is the best method for displaying and conveying your conviction that the whole Bible is true.

Timothy Keller

#9. To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible's teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn't have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense?

Timothy Keller

#10. Just as the Bible teaches, to give is to live. This is how God designed life to function.

Timothy R. Jennings

#11. 2 Timothy 3:16 ALL Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness.

Bible Verses

#12. Freedom is not so much the absence of restrictions as finding the right ones, those that fit with the realities of our own nature and those of the world.32 So the commandments of God in the Bible

Timothy Keller

#13. In the Bible there are three human institutions that stand apart from all others - the family, the church, and the state. There's nothing in the Bible about how schools should be run, even though they are crucial to a flourishing society.

Timothy Keller

#14. Prayer is so great that wherever you look in the Bible, it is there. Why? Everywhere God is, prayer is. Since God is everywhere and infinitely great, prayer must be all-pervasive in our lives.

Timothy J. Keller

#15. A god of less wrath than the God of the Bible is necessarily a god of less love. His anger is a product of his love.

Timothy Keller

#16. The lessons of the Bible have a moral and religious influence on the character, as they are brought into the practical life. Timothy

Ellen G. White

#17. To understand the Scripture is not simply to get information about God. If attended to with trust and faith, the Bible is the way to actually hear God speaking and also to meet God himself.

Timothy J. Keller

#18. The Bible is not a book of answers but a library of questions.

Timothy Beal

#19. Most students don't trust their own insights and questions when they are reading a biblical assignment. They expect that there must be a point, a right reading that they're missing, and that they don't have the authority to suggest any other interpretation.

Timothy Beal

#20. The Bible does not say that God speaks and then proceeds to act, that he names and then proceeds to shape - but that God's speaking and acting are the same thing. His word is his action, his divine power.

Timothy Keller

#21. The Psalms are the prayer book of the Bible, but it is noteworthy that the first Psalm is not a prayer per se but a meditation - in

Timothy J. Keller

#22. To make a name in the language of the Bible is to construct an identity for ourselves. We either get our name - our defining essence, security, worth, and uniqueness - from what God has done for us and in us (Revelation 2:17), or we make a name through what we can do for ourselves.

Timothy Keller

#23. To know how to meditate on and delight in the Bible is the secret to a relationship with God and to life itself.

Timothy Keller

#24. Along with that, the Bible continually reminds us that God sends the uncomfortable grace of trial not to crush or discourage us, but to mature and refine us. As we are realistic about difficulty, that needs to be our hope.

Timothy S. Lane

#25. If you don't trust the Bible enough to let it challenge and correct your thinking, how could you ever have a personal relationship with God?

Timothy Keller

#26. The Bible appears to be the most revered book never read.

Timothy Beal

#27. The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.

Timothy Keller

#28. All the seemingly loose threads and contradictory claims of the rest of the Bible come together in Jesus.

Timothy J. Keller

#29. The idea of the Bible as a divine guidebook, a map for getting through the terra incognita of life, is our golden calf. It's a substitute for the wilderness wandering that the life of faith necessarily entails.

Timothy Beal

#30. Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New.

Timothy Keller

#31. Indeed, like so many encounters with Jesus in the Gospel stories, we might go to the Bible looking for answers, but we usually come away with more questions.

Timothy Beal

#32. Many people think of the Bible as a book of moral teachings with stories sprinkled through to illustrate the teachings. But it's a lot BETTER THAN THAT ... the Bible is a single true story with teachings sprinkled through to illustrate the story.

Timothy Keller