Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason. I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other – my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.
– Martin Luther
Scripture | Conviction
The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
– Augustine
Scripture | Home
All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
– David Livingstone
Scripture
The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering and the most comfortable way of dying.
– John Flavel
Scripture
God’s Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.
– R.A. Torrey
Scripture
One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. …works have a place–but as a demonstration of having received God’s forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.
– Ravi Zacharias
Scripture | Heaven | Forgiveness
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
– John Owen
Scripture
I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope.
– William Tyndale
Scripture
The man who thinks he can know the Word of God by mere intellectual study is greatly deceived. Spiritual truth is spiritually discerned.
– Samuel Chadwick
Scripture | Truth | Discernment
All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.
– Stephen Charnock
Prayer | Scripture
The remedy for discouragement is the Word of God. When you feed your heart and mind with its truth, you regain your perspective and find renewed strength.
– Warren Wiersbe
Discouragement | Scripture | Strength
The chief means for attaining wisdom, and suitable gifts for the ministry, are the Holy Scriptures, and prayer.
– John Newton
Wisdom | Gifts | Scripture
We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.
– John Stott
Scripture
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
– Thomas Merton
Scripture | Nature | Renewal
When you examine the Word of God, the Word of God examines you.
– Jack Wellman
The Bible | Scripture
I defy the Pope and all his laws. If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy who drives the plough to know more of the scriptures than you do.
– William Tyndale
Scripture
When the heart full of God’s love can draw on the mind full of God’s word, timely blessings flow from the mouth.
– John Piper
The Heart | Scripture | The Tongue
One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.
– Leonard Ravenhill
Scripture
The general rule of interpreting Scripture is this: the literal sense of every text is to be taken, if it be not contrary to some other texts. But in that case, the obscure text is to be interpreted by those which speak more plainly.
– John Wesley
Scripture
If Jesus, the sinless and perfect Son of God, limited Himself to speaking nothing during His incarnation except the truth He received from His Father, how much more should those who have been called into ministry speak only on the authority of divine Scripture.
– John MacArthur
Truth | Scripture
If you want a wonderful experience, take your New Testament and use a concordance to look up the two little words, but God. See how many times human resources have been brought to an utter end; despair has gripped the heart and pessimism and gloom has settled upon a people; and there is nothing that can be done. Then see how the Spirit of God writes in luminous letters, but God, and the whole situation changes into victory.
– Ray C. Stedman
Scripture | Victory
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.
– Isaac Newton
Scripture | Philosophy | Christianity
This blessed Book brings such life and health and peace, and such an abundance that we should never be poor any more.
– Smith Wigglesworth
Scripture | Health
He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.
– William Gurnall
Scripture | Purity
The fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.
– John Calvin
Scripture | Heresy
Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing in God’s judgment, hating what He hates, loving what He loves, and measuring everything in this world by the standard of His Word.
– J. C. Ryle
Holiness | Scripture
It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.
– George Mueller
Prayer | Scripture
No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that ‘In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth’.
– C.S. Lewis
Philosophy | Scripture | Truth
The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.
– George Mueller
Prayer | Scripture
Yes, to Jesus we come, for with richness of figurative language, wealth of ethical insight, and depth of redemptive-historical grasp we are brought by the Scriptures to Jesus. God spoke in diverse manners has spoken in a Son. What focus in brought to our preaching in this approach.
– Edmund Clowney
Jesus | Scripture
The world changes – circumstances change, we change – but God’s Word never changes
– Warren Wiersbe
Scripture | Change | Circumstances
Evolutionary Darwinists need to understand we are taking the dinosaurs back. This is a battle cry to recognize the science in the revealed truth of God.
– Ken Ham
Creation | Scripture | Evolution
Imagine if we started raising generations of children who stood uncompromisingly on the Word of God, knew how to defend the Christian faith, could answer the skeptical questions of this age, and had a fervor to share the gospel from the authority of God’s Word with whomever they met! This could change the world.
– Ken Ham
Scripture | Children | Theology
The Word of God is the breath of God.
– Woodrow Kroll
Scripture
God’s “nothings” are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
– Oswald Chambers
Prayer | Scripture
Indeed, I disagree very much with those who are unwilling that Holy Scripture, translated into the vulgar tongue, be read by the uneducated, as if Christ taught such intricate doctrines that they could scarcely be understood by very few theologians, or as if the strength of the Christian religion consisted in men’s ignorance of it.
– Desiderius Erasmus
Scripture | Ignorance | Doctrine
Read the Scripture, not only as a history, but as a love-letter sent to you from God.
– Thomas Watson
Scripture
Only one thing validates a message or a messenger: The whole counsel of the word of God.
– Kay Arthur
Scripture
It is not mere reading, but meditation — “meditation all the day,” as the Psalmist says — which extracts the sweetness and the power out of Scripture.
– James Stalker
Meditation | Scripture
God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave this Book of God, the grand charter of salvation, one fair reading through.
– George Whitefield
Scripture
The preaching of God’s word is hateful and contrary unto them. Why? For it is impossible to preach Christ, except thou preach against antichrist; that is to say, them which with their false doctrine and violence of sword enforce to quench the true doctrine of Christ.
– William Tyndale
Scripture | Heresy | Doctrine
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
– A. W. Tozer
Scripture | The Bible
A readiness to believe every promise implicitly, to obey every command unhesitatingly, to stand perfect and complete in all the will of God, is the only true spirit of Bible study.
– Andrew Murray
Scripture | The Bible
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship – and not as ends in themselves.
– Francis Schaeffer
Scripture | Relationships
The Scripture is both the breeder and feeder of grace. How is the convert born, but by “the word of truth”? (James 1:18). How doth he grow, but by “the sincere milk of the Word.”? (I Peter 2:2).
– Thomas Watson
Scripture
The Word of life may be so distorted from the life of the Word till it becomes the food of death.
– Thomas Adams
Scripture
It seems to me better to get the Book of books for food for your soul, for the strengthening of your faith, and the building up of your character in God, so that all the time you are being changed and made meet to walk with God.
– Smith Wigglesworth
Scripture | Faith
It is to be feared that what we often have, instead of equivalency attainment, is much zeal and sincerity not systematic preparation in the Word.
– Walter J. Chantry
Scripture | Zeal
Let us know, then, that the true meaning of Scripture is the natural and obvious meaning; and let us embrace and abide by it resolutely. Let us not only neglect as doubtful, but boldly set aside as deadly corruptions those pretended expositions which lead us away from the natural meaning.
– John Calvin
Scripture | Heresy
In opposition… to all the suggestions of the devil, the sole, simple, and sufficient answer is the word of God. This puts to flight all the powers of darkness. The Christian finds this to be true in his individual experience. It dissipates his doubts; it drives away his fears; it delivers him from the power of Satan.
– Charles Hodge
Scripture
The idea of sola Scriptura is that there is only one written source of divine revelation, which can never be placed on a parallel status with confessional statements, creeds, or the traditions of the church. Scripture alone has the authority to bind the conscience precisely because only Scripture is the written revelation of almighty God.
– R. C. Sproul
Scripture
When attempts are made by Christians to combine psychology with the teachings of Scripture, it is, wittingly or unwittingly, the addition of “a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 14:12) and a variation of the “Yea, hath God said…?” dialogue, resulting in the corruption of God’s Word.
– T.A. McMahon
Heresy | Scripture | Psychology
Let Christian kings therefore keep their faith and truth, and all lawful promises and bonds, not one with another only, but even with the Turk or whatsoever infidel it be. For so it is right before God; as the scriptures and ensamples of the bible testify.
– William Tyndale
Scripture
Like a chain which depends upon its weakest link, if God’s Word is not absolutely and completely true, it is too weak a cable to fix our anchorage and guarantee our eternal peace.
– A. B. Simpson
Scripture
In general, He guides and directs His people, affording them, in answer to prayer, the light of His Holy Spirit, which enables them to understand and to love the Scriptures.
– John Newton
The Holy Spirit | Scripture
The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.
– Daniel Webster
Scripture
Before I translated the New Testament out of the Greek, all longed after it; when it was done, their longing lasted scarce four weeks. Then they desired the books of Moses; when I had translated these, they had enough thereof in a short time. After that, they would have the Psalms; of these they were soon weary, and desired other books. So it will be with the book of Ecclesiastes, which they now long for, and about which I have taken great pains. All is acceptable until our giddy brains be satisfied; afterwards we let familiar things lie, and seek after new.
– Martin Luther
Scripture
Some preachers never appreciate the compliment given them when a saint disagrees with the pastor’s exposition of a text. At least the Christian under his care is devoted more to Scripture than to the man in the pulpit. Under his ministry the child of God has reached a maturity to think through issues for himself and has imbibed a Berean spirit (Acts 17:11).
– Walter J. Chantry
Preaching | Scripture
The amount of time we spend with Jesus – meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face – establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.
– Charles Stanley
Service | Scripture | Meditation
But the challenge is always this: Are men and women going to allow the Word of God to sit in judgment on their puny minds, or are they going to make their puny minds the judges of the Word of God?
– Alistair Begg
JudgingScripture
God’s Word will never fall into disrepair. But here’s what happens when we don’t travel on it: We fall into disrepair!
– David Jeremiah
Scripture
I don’t mean that there is too little New Testament language in our prayers; but there is too little both Old and New Testament language meditated on, understood, believed, realized and felt. There is too little Scripture substance, Scripture strength, Scripture depth, and Scripture height, in our prayers.
– Alexander Whyte
Scripture
Many people hear the Word of God, but to some of them it is only words; they do not accept it as the Word of God. What a paradox it is that all creation obeys His Word except we who are made in the image of God and have the ability to choose.
– Theodore Epp
Scripture | Apathy
If thou sin, the word of God is thy adversary. It is the adversary of thy will till it become the author of thy salvation.
– Augustine
Scripture | Salvation
Do get on with your studies. Remember you are now forming the character of your future ministry, if God spare you. If you acquire slovenly or sleepy habits of study now, you will never get the better of it. Do everything in earnest. Above all, keep much in the presence of God. Never see the face of man till you have seen His face who is our life, our all.
– Robert Murray McCheyne
Scripture
Faith is to rest, not in the best of God’s servants, but in His unchanging Word.
– Harry Ironside
Faith | Scripture | Rest
What is Science but what the Natural World has said to natural men? What is Revelation but what the Spiritual World has said to Spiritual men?
– Henry Drummond
Scripture
I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort me at the close of this life but this passage of St. Paul: “It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.” To this I cleave, and herein do I find rest.
– John Selden
Scripture | Salvation | Comfort
Whenever a man takes upon him to make additions to the Scriptures, he is likely to end with valuing his own additions above Scripture itself.
– J. C. Ryle
Scripture
You can believe a whole lot of foolish things, but God doesn’t want you to do that. He wants your faith to rest upon the Word of God.
– J. Vernon McGee
Faith | Scripture | Foolishness
Yes, it is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams, the most abundant and most marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to relieve the thirst of men! Through it , God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light heretofore unknown to shine amongst men.
– Assorted Authors
Scripture | Light
Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.
– William Gurnall
Scripture | Heresy | Doctrine
The only “Scripture” most of today’s uncertain souls know is an emasculated, paraphrased “Bible,” rewritten to eliminate conviction of sin and catering to the rebellion of those who insist upon having the gospel modified to suit their unbelief. God will not accommodate their rebellion!
– Dave Hunt
Rebellion | Scripture | Unbelief
I seek the will of the Spirit of God through or in connection with the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also.
– George Mueller
The Holy Spirit | Scripture
It is as impossible to understand the Scriptures without the Spirit’s help as it is to read a sundial without the sun.
– William Gurnall
Scripture
The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.
– Matthew Henry
Scripture
Many things there be in the scripture, which have a carnal fulfilling, even there where they be spoken or done; and yet have another spiritual signification, to be fulfilled long after in Christ and his kingdom, and yet never known till the thing be done.
– William Tyndale
Scripture | Carnality
In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.
– Isaac Watts
Scripture
Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master’s book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul. Do not let newspapers, novels, and romances be read, while the prophets and Apostles be despised. Do not let the exciting and sensual swallow up your attention, while the edifying and the sanctifying can find no place in your mind.
– J. C. Ryle
Books | Scripture
While the Christian message is increasingly becoming less acceptable in fashionable society, we must be always living according to Scripture and prepared to be apologists for Jesus Christ in all aspects of our lives.
– Jonathan Falwell
Scripture
Let us have one day exclusively to study and read the Word of God. If we can’t take time during the week, we will have Sunday uninterrupted.
– Dwight L. Moody
Scripture
To those holy men who gave us the sacred Scriptures we owe a debt we can never hope to pay.
– A. B. Simpson
Scripture
Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.
– R.A. Torrey
Prayer | Scripture
As all types and figures in the Law were but empty shadows without the coming of Christ, so the New Testament is but a dead letter without the Holy Spirit in redeemed men as the living power of a full salvation.
– William Law
Scripture | The Holy Spirit | Redemption
Highly prize the Scriptures. Can he make a proficiency in any art, who doth slight and deprecate it? Prize this book of God above all other books.
– Thomas Watson
Scripture
I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.
– John Quincy Adams
Scripture
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
– Charles Spurgeon
Scripture
We encounter the beauty of the Lord when we spiritually ingest the statements of Scripture concerning the wonders of who God is and all He does. When we take the scintillating truths of God and hide them in our hearts, meditate on them, muse on them, soak our souls in them, so to speak, we become infatuated with the exquisite personality of God.
– Sam Storms
Scripture
On all sides it is recognized that any who would take the New Testament seriously must be confronted by eschatology… Preaching that has lost urgency and passion reveals a loss of the eschatological perspective of the New Testament… He is not aware that he ministers in the time of the ascended Christ, the time of the fulfillment of all the prophets in his saving rule.
– Edmund Clowney
Preaching | Scripture
The living Word is able to destroy Satanic forces.
– Smith Wigglesworth
Scripture
We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.
– Charles Spurgeon
Scripture | Life
The Word of God is not to be used as a lottery; nor is it designed to instruct us by shreds and scraps, which, detached from their proper places, have no determinate import; but it is to furnish us with just principles, right apprehensions to regulate our judgments and affections, and thereby to influence and direct our conduct.
– John Newton
Scripture
No, the Scriptures were not given to us to confuse us but rather to instruct us. Certainly God intends that we should believe His Word with all simplicity. A thousand years means a thousand years; a wolf means a wolf; a lion means a lion. If you read your Bible that way, a child can understand it.
– M.R. DeHaan
Scripture
Now what is food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God; and here again, not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water passes through a pipe, but considering what we read, pondering it over and applying it to our hearts.
– George Mueller
Scripture
Without prayer the study of Scripture can turn into a merely intellectual exercise. Prayer without Scripture will lack needed motivation and guidance.
– William Thrasher
Prayer | Scripture
The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we are made partakers of Christ or not, or whether His Spirit dwells in us or not–which argue both the difficulty of attaining an assured confidence herein, as also the danger of our being mistaken, and yet the certainty of a good issue upon the diligent and regular use of means to that purpose.
– John Owen
Scripture | The Holy Spirit
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
– Augustine
Scripture | The Gospel | Selfishness
If the word stays not in the memory, it cannot profit. Some can better remember a piece of news than a line of Scripture: their memories are like those ponds, where frogs live, but fish die.
– Thomas Watson
Scripture
If I did not believe in the infallibility of Scripture – the absolute infallibility of it from cover to cover, I would never enter this pulpit again!
– Charles Spurgeon
Scripture
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
– C.S. Lewis
God | Scripture