Scripture Alone Quotes

#1. Scripture is our norming norm and tradition is our normed norm and that in a doctrinal controversy Scripture alone has absolute veto power while The Great Tradition (orthodox doctrine) has a vote but not a veto.

Roger E. Olson

#2. Let us use texts of Scripture as fuel for our heart's fire, they are live coals; let us attend sermons, but above all, let us be much alone with Jesus.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. Questions upon points wherein Scripture is silent; upon mysteries which belong to God alone; upon prophecies of doubtful interpretation; and upon mere modes of observing human ceremonials, are all foolish, and wise men avoid them.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#4. "Our prosperity, our friends, our bondage and even our destruction are all in the end rooted in our tongue," says a famous adage.

Krishnananda Saraswati

#5. Every minute spent worrying about 'the way things were' is a moment stolen from creating 'the way things can be'

Robin Sharma

#6. If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.

Irwin Thomas

#7. The scripture comes gently, as a mother comes to her child, so that we who can scarcely crawl on the ground are not left alone in our weakness." (Augustine)

Bengt R. Hoffman

#8. I think of myself of a primitivist. I have never had any of these electronic instruments and I have never had the slightest interest in using them. I use the computer as a tool, simply because it makes composing a lot faster. But I don't go on stage with a computer and make a lot of goofy sounds.

Glenn Branca

#9. Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

Rumi

#10. When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.

Richard Wagner

#11. Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Jane Yolen

#12. As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart ...

George MacDonald

#13. There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

Harold Pinter

#14. That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

Alvin Lee

#15. He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye.

Orson Scott Card

#16. By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the Church alone is the entrance to salvation: She alone, by herself, and under the protection and guidance of the Holy Spirit, is the source of truth.

Pope Pius XII

#17. Scripture said that "pride goes before fall". Just let pride go alone. Don't go in its company, else fall pursues both of you!

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. When I eat alone I feel like a seminarian being punished. I tried it for one week and I was not comfortable. Then I searched through Sacred Scripture for something saying I had to eat alone. I found nothing, so I gave it up and it's much better now.

Pope John XXIII