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If you keep the law of God, you are not described in Scripture as a pinched legalist, but rather as happy (Prov. 29:18).

We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.

The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.

I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

We don’t go to Scripture for permission to do what we think is best, but for direction to do what He says is best.

The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.

In every generation there are voices that question the authority of Scripture. So in one sense this is merely part of the continuing stream. But there's a sense in which the questions that are raised against Scripture vary a wee bit from generation to generation.

Some have argued that the Christian notion of Scripture is not epistemologically sustainable. It's not philosophically possible with rigor to uphold the Christian understanding of Scripture.

Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting something, making a truth claim, uttering a proposition that is claiming to be true, it is the truth.

The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.

The notion of the enduring authority focuses on the fact that some people think that notions like authority of Scripture's is passé, while others say that the present configuration of the doctrine of inerrancy is a late addition. And to both we want to say, No we're talking about the enduring authority of Scripture, grounded first and foremost in its relevatory status, something given by God and utterly reliable.

In terms of applicability to today's world, many people are trying to domesticate Scripture so as to get the PC answer, the politically correct answer on a wide range of subjects, whether it's homosexual marriage, or a certain view of government, or a certain view of eschatology or whatever. At the end of the day we want also to encourage the kind of reverent handling of Scripture that wants to be corrected by Scripture, that is more eager to be mastered by Scripture then to master it.

The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it.

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.

If we belong to Christ, Satan has no right to exercise authority over us, but he hopes we're too ignorant regarding Scripture to know it.

We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves.

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.

As we fell in Adam, we are saved in Christ. To deny the principle in the one case, is to deny it in the other; for the two are inseparably united in the representations of Scripture

People not only need a gospel-inspired vision of work, but they need a new vision of the Scriptures.

The Bible reminds people that the whole of Scriptures addresses the whole of our lives, including our work. We need to be reminded of this every time we open the Bible, so that we experience the hope and power of the gospel in our work every day.

Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.

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.

The scriptures are in print what Christ is in person.

Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.

God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.

We're not asking anybody here to stop what you're doing. We're asking you to do what you're doing in moderation. There's a scripture that says let your moderation be known unto all men.

The point I try to make with the kids is, well, scripture tells us that man looks on the outside, but God looks to your heart.

We are assured, however, in Scripture that though the forces against us may be many, they that be for us are more than they that be against us.

What I've always appreciated about this church is that the pastors are able to give us a sense of the historical perspective of the scripture for the week. It puts things in context and helps us understand what might otherwise be obscure, giving it contemporary significance. What's so amazing about Rev. Therese is the depth of her knowledge as a scholar of the Bible because of her theological training and focus.

What Jerry has done, in a masterful way, is go through and select portions of the Scripture and put words in Jesus' mouth that are legitimate because they already appear in the Bible.

We try to teach more than just basketball. We try to touch the spiritual side of the players, too. That's why we used the twist about covenants. We signed a covenant stating that we wanted to be remembered. We used the scripture Habakkuk 2:2, where it says 'See a vision and write it clear and simple.' So we wrote it down, that we wanted to be remembered, signed it and started working and playing as such since then.

We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.

The school district and Ministerium will begin the service with a welcome. Then (the Rev.) Alex Perednia will read scripture verses and give a eulogy.

The scripture that comes to my mind is 'Jesus wept,' ... Jesus weeps today for the loss of life in New Orleans and he weeps that his gospel is being hijacked by the rabid rhetoric of the religious right -- that is in its own way as destructive to our national fabric as Hurricane Katrina has been.

The right tools can really open up Scripture to you.

To begin with, I had to take my faith and my beliefs and set them aside, so I could take an objective approach. I wanted to know why I believed the things I had been told. Through the whole process, it strengthened me. I feel I am more of a believer now than I ever was. There are some skeptics' views that really make a lot of sense. I really had to wrestle with them. Scripture comes to life now in a way it never had.

Alcoa's earnings appears to resemble a biblical scripture because it can be interpreted in many ways,

There's a great Scripture about counting the cost before you start building the house, ... I think that's a big part of the problem. Where's the bottom end? Well, it fell out.

If you use scripture as science, you're not elevating scripture, you're profaning it.

The band distinguished themselves from other Christian musicians by including Bible Scripture in all of their lyrics, high-energy evangelism and humor that was enjoyed by all ages. I can wholeheartedly recommend them to anyone.

Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss.

Does Scripture forbid homosexual behavior? Of course it does. Jesus and his apostles taught that God's intention in marriage is for a man to leave his parents and join himself to one woman.

In Scripture we have found peace and order in our home and our family, and that's of course what we want for these families, ... Peace and harmony and love in a home is a good thing.

I therefore became very melancholy and highly troubled. No Scripture could comfort me, though I was quite well versed in it.

But I don't believe we can just confess any Scripture and make it happen.

True Christians delight to read the Scriptures, because they tell them about their beloved Savior.

Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.

When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.

We corrupt the Word of God most dangerously, when we throw any doubt on the plenary inspiration of any part of Holy Scripture.

Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.

Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.

When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.

God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture....

It is precisely because Biblical revelation is absolutely authoritative and perspicuous that the scientific facts, rightly interpreted, will give the same testimony as that of Scripture. There is not the slightest possibility that the facts of science can contradict the Bible.

The main reason for insisting on the universal Flood as a fact of history and as the primary vehicle for geological interpretation is that God's Word plainly teaches it! No geologic difficulties, real or imagined, can be allowed to take precedence over the clear statements and necessary inferences of Scripture.

The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.

The unanimous verdict of scripture is that practicing homosexuality is a sin, ... Love ... must not compromise the church's allegiance to scripture.

The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.

We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.

The history of every individual man should be a Bible.

Those who believe the Author of Nature to be also the Author of Scripture must expect to find in Scripture the same sorts of difficulties that they find in Nature.

We should be patient in developing and strengthening our testimonies. Rather than expecting immediate or spectacular manifestations, though they will come when needed, we should pray for a testimony, study the scriptures, follow the counsel of our prophet and other Church leaders, and live the principles of the gospel. Our testimonies then will grow and mature naturally, perhaps imperceptibly at times, until they become driving forces in our lives.

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.

Testimony requires the nurturing by the prayer of faith, the hungering for the word of God in the scriptures, and the obedience to the truth.

Some parts of the Bible are dreadful. In fact, my working title for The Sins of Scripture was "The Terrible Text of The Bible."

Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.

As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.

It's a story that fails as history, but that's why it succeeds as scripture -- because it's elliptical, ... The story has the ability to be perpetually now.

However, I do not believe it is right when a minister corrects his theology - or his view on a point of Scripture - and the critics continue to bring up that same subject.

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

I cannot imagine why anyone could feel betrayed. Most of us don't make deals; we try to understand Scripture and faithfully preach it.

Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed.

Being much troubled to see the falseness of the constitution of the Church of England, I had like to have turned Separatist. Whereupon I kept a day of solemn humiliation and pondering of the thing; this scripture was brought unto me-he that denies Jesus Christ to be come in the flesh is antichrist.

When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.

We must stress that the basis for our faith is neither experience nor emotion but the truth as God has given it in verbalized, prepositional form in the Scripture and which we first of all apprehend with our minds.

There is no use of Evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of Evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core, namely the Scriptures.

The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.

Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.

If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.

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. If the Holy Ghost guides us at all, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.

The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.

We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.

Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts. The scriptures tell us that "Only by pride cometh contention".

The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so plain and precious.

When individual members and families immerse themselves in the scriptures regularly and consistently, … other areas of activity will automatically come. Testimonies will increase. Commitment will be strengthened. Families will be fortified. Personal revelation will flow

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.

To meditate on Scripture is to allow the truth of God's Word to move from head to heart. It is to so dwell upon a truth that it becomes part of our being.

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.'

Let the scriptures refresh you.

When one comes to know God and His Son Jesus Christ through the scriptures, the Spirit, and personal revelation, it is impossible to feel anything other than overwhelmed by the attributes so perfectly developed in them and so tentatively and superficially developed in oneself. Even so, we are told to strive to become like them.

Live it like its gospel , quote it like its scripture.

The primary reason we lose faith is because we forget the faithfulness of God. Maybe that's why the word 'remember' is repeated 250 times in Scripture.

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.