Top 100 Quotes About Scriptures
#1. One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the scriptures contain all the knowledge required to deal with the problems of contemporary society.
Arnold Beichman
#2. The yogic scriptures paint a picture of perfection, and perfection can be your aim, but I can tell you sad stories about myself and others who have entered into a state of premature holiness with unpleasant consequences.
Gudjon Bergmann
#3. A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.
Randall Terry
#5. Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.
Rajneesh
#6. Continually, a storm blew through our world and it always had, and the only place I knew where this was formulated, the most extreme yet simplest things, was in these holy scriptures.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#7. Lectio divina provides us with a discipline, developed and handed down by our ancestors, for recovering the context, restoring the intricate
web of relationships to which the Scriptures give witness but that are so easily lost or obscured in the act of writing.
Eugene H. Peterson
#8. To merely search the Scriptures is to come to the tree of knowledge; to contact the Lord through the Word is to come to the tree of life.
Witness Lee
#10. Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it?
Ardeth Kapp
#11. Reading the scriptures through the lenses of the Law you see God as unapproachable, through the lenses of Grace you see the outstretched arms of Jesus saying "come".
John Paul Warren
#12. Jesus found His identity in Scripture and always directed these people to the Scriptures and the prophecies that spoke of Him.
K.P. Yohannan
#13. Sometimes it seem that the people who quote scriptures the most, follow them the least.
Steve Maraboli
#14. We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.
Hosea Ballou
#15. Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.
Jelly Roll Morton
#16. I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
Venerable Bede
#17. Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith.
Tony Campolo
#18. I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.
John Wycliffe
#19. It is not surprising, of course, that those who attempt to discredit the evidence of Scripture are the people who themselves do not seriously read, know, or make a thorough study of the Scriptures.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#20. Nowhere do the Scriptures tell us to seek results, nor do the Scriptures rebuke evangelists if the results are meager.
Billy Graham
#21. As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct.
Jerry Bridges
#22. Let us each day search from the scriptures and from the prophets ... . The scriptures that are never read will never help us. If read, the words of God will nourish our souls and carry us to great heights in our endeavors.
L. Tom Perry
#23. The identity of Hinduism lies in its wide-open structure which allows and let develop diverse and distinct ideologies and practices. With no governing body and no binding scriptures studies in Hinduism are individual exposures and understanding of its spiritual thoughts.
Promod Puri
#24. Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. Scriptures are as 'helping problem'. Scriptures only give directions. Scriptures are like a thermometer. Can you grind a thermometer and give it as medicine?
Dada Bhagwan
#26. If we fail to recognize there is a unified whole to Scripture, we will have only a pile of pieces. Simplistic slogans, formulas and catchphrases will not suffice in conveying the richness of the Scriptures.
Michael S. Horton
#27. In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.
Jack Schwartz
#28. The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for a theologians to swim in without ever touching the bottom St. Jerome
Jerome
#29. Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
Ambrose Bierce
#30. The self-life manifests itself in self-indulgences, such as self-love, self-will, self-seeking, self-pride ... It takes self-denial to turn off the television and spend [time] in prayer ... and read the Scriptures ... the only object in life is that Christ may be honored.
Billy Graham
#31. Why is it that so few "pretty people" without checkered pasts are used mightily in the Scriptures? Because the Bible is primarily about God's grace, not about human cleanliness.
Matt Chandler
#32. All Christians have access to the spiritual riches found in the Scriptures, which, after all, were written amid the spiritual turmoil and social conflicts of the writers' times. We can learn from those who went before us.
James Martin
#34. If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.
Matt Chandler
#36. We ought not to READ the scriptures, but listen to them, for our Beloved is present and speaks to us through them. (vs. it being like a love letter sent to us from afar).
M. Basil Pennington
#37. Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.
John Donne
#38. I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.
Jim Caviezel
#39. The Holy Scriptures were not given
to us that we should enclose
them in books, but that we should
engrave them upon our hearts.
John Chrysostom
#40. It is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, "It is through faith that a righteous person has life."*
Anonymous
#41. In the Scriptures, a comrnu- nity is a group of people, living under God's rule, who are learning how to love God and love one another.
Jeffrey Arnold
#42. The scriptures were one of the ways God spoke to me - even when I was a child - about my needs, my situation, and my life. They still are. Since our needs change over a lifetime, God has different things to tell us at different times.
Henry B. Eyring
#43. During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#44. When a man begins to perceive the love of God in all its richness, he begins also to love his neighbor with spiritual perception. This is the love of which all the scriptures speak.
Diadochos Of Photiki
#45. The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.
John Calvin
#46. Those who read the Scriptures as magnificent literature, breath-taking poetry, or history and overlook the story of salvation miss the Bible's real meaning and message.
Billy Graham
#47. In Proverbs, a wisdom book of the Hebrew Scriptures, a cat would find a few "wisdom" passages as noxious as the Garden of Eden passages. Again the symbology of fruit being eaten
Leviak B. Kelly
#48. The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example.
Richard Furman
#50. As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all day and praise the Lord. I don't know about you, but I think that after the first, oh, I don't know, 50,000,000 years of that I'd start to get a little bored.
Rick Reynolds
#51. When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.
John Philip Kemble
#52. This book proves that a godly attitude lies at the heart of Christian leadership. It does not borrow principles of leadership from the world and apply them to the church, but rather derives principles of leadership directly from the Scriptures.
J. Oswald Sanders
#53. Be careful before leaving someone in a sorrowing situation. Say a word of prayer with them and share even a brief word of encouragement from the Scriptures.
Billy Graham
#54. How often would I have the chance to see a pretty girl bathing? I could recall no specific prohibition from the church or the Scriptures, though I knew it was wrong. But maybe it wasn't terribly sinful.
John Grisham
#55. The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#56. There is no counsel like God's counsel. No comfort like His comfort. No wisdom more profound than the wisdom of the Scriptures.
Charles R. Swindoll
#57. It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class.
Julie B. Beck
#58. We must let patience have its perfect work, remembering that there are precious promises in the Scriptures for those who wait upon the Lord.
Ellen G. White
#59. All Sacred Scriptures is but one book, and that one book is Christ, because all divine Scripture speaks of Christ, and all divine Scripture is fulfilled in Christ.
Hugh Of Saint-Victor
#60. I try to celebrate all the holidays that the Scriptures talk about.
Amar'e Stoudemire
#61. Survival is the biggest dharma. The scriptures say, nothing is a sin during danger. It is called apat dharma. Think
Anand Neelakantan
#62. Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ... but unless you realize the Truth, there is no freedom.
Swami Vivekananda
#63. A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.
Mark The Evangelist
#64. The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#65. God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. Through reading the scriptures I realized there was a purpose for my life, that I was created for a reason, that I was significant, that it was my choices that got me to where I was at and that it would be my choices that would get me to where I wanted to be as well.
Christian Hosoi
#67. I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: 'Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.'
George Harrison
#68. So she needs a man!" Hakeswill said. "And a sergeant's widow doesn't get rogered by a stinking bit of dirt like you. It ain't right. Ain't natural. It's beneath her station, Sharpie, and it can't be allowed. Says so in the scriptures.
Bernard Cornwell
#69. Learning, pondering, searching, and memorizing scriptures is like filling a filing cabinet with friends, values, and truths that can be called upon anytime, anywhere in the world.
Richard G. Scott
#70. Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [ ... ] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.
Richard Dawkins
#71. If you want to be led by the Spirit of God, then devote yourself to the Word of God. The Spirit's primary vehicle for moving and speaking in our lives is the Scriptures
Anonymous
#72. Truth is not obtained cheaply. It demands much time given to prayer and study of the Scriptures, followed by practical application in our daily lives. It must take priority over the many forms of cheap entertainment offered by our secular culture. It is a lifetime commitment.
Derek Prince
#73. The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#74. Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament.
Henry B. Eyring
#75. Learn those helpful truths by pondering the Book of Mormon and other scriptures. Try to understand those teachings not only with your mind but also with your heart.
Richard G. Scott
#76. There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.
John Milton
#77. Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you as darkness is from light. Truth is not found by observing rituals, undertaking pilgrimages or reading the scriptures. It is simply a waste of time.
Anandmurti Gurumaa
#78. Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
Jonathan Edwards
#79. The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#80. The Scriptures were written with built-in tension between texts and its resultant theology.
James MacDonald
#81. The scriptures say to wake up from the deep sleep of ignorance, remain fully awake, remain conscious, & go on learning.
Rama Swami
#82. As in paradise, God walks in the Holy Scriptures, seeking man.
Ambrose
#83. The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.
Bodhidharma
#84. It may occasion surprise that the decree of a temporal power sufficed to give the classics a position that can be compared in other cultures to the place of sacred scriptures inspired by divine revelation.
Hellmut Wilhelm
#85. May the Lord grant you grace to read and understand the Holy Scriptures.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#86. The scriptures offer us so many doctrinal diamonds. And when the light of the Spirit plays upon their several facets, they sparkle with celestial sense and illuminate the path we are to follow.
Neal A. Maxwell
#87. The Constitution is man-made, so it is not perfect. It's not the basis of my beliefs. My belief system is based on the Scriptures which come from God.
Rick Warren
#88. The scriptures speak of His arms being open, extended, stretched out, and encircling. They are described as mighty and holy, arms of mercy, arms of safety, arms of love, lengthened out all the day long.
Neil L. Andersen
#89. If you ponder the scriptures and begin to do what you covenanted with God to do, I can promise you that you will feel more love for God and more of His love for you.
Henry B. Eyring
#90. Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.
Martin Luther
#91. No one can know truth except the one who obeys truth. You think you know truth. People memorize the Scriptures by the yard, but that is not a guarantee of knowing the truth. Truth is not a text. Truth is in the text, but it takes the text plus the Holy Spirit to bring truth to a human soul.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#92. So anyone who thinks that he has understood the divine scriptures or any part of them, but cannot by his understanding build up this double love of God and neighbor, has not yet succeeded in understanding them.
Augustine Of Hippo
#94. My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.
James G. Watt
#95. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.
Anonymous
#96. It is fair to say the New Testament is the most ethically sophisticated of the great scriptures; the proper comparison for the Qur'an is with the Old Testament - against which it holds its own.
Sebastian Faulks
#97. There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God's counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator.
John Ortberg
#98. When we preach or teach the Scriptures, we open the door for the Holy Spirit to do His work. God has not promised to bless oratory or clever preaching. He has promised to bless His Word.
Billy Graham
#99. I do think there's a difference between what a religious leader says and does and what a public official or legislator does. But there's no question that a lot of our legal underpinnings find a good bit of their foundations in the Scriptures.
Bob Casey Jr.
#100. According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The first thing that came out of man is the blues because, according to the Scriptures, when God made man, man was lonesome and blue.
Willie Dixon
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