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Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the the Bible is merely a collection of imperfect books written by highly fallible human beings.

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.

Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading.

Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.

Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.

Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.

Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.

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.

Scripture is the manger in which we find the Christ child.

Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason.

Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.

Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.

Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

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.

So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to penetrate the surface with more than just a cursory glance.

The Bible is not a book like any other. It makes a claim that God spoke and speaks through its message. It argues that as his creatures, we are accountable to him for what he has revealed. The trustworthiness of Scripture points to its authority as well. Scripture is far more than a history book, as good and trustworthy as that history is. It is a book that calls us to examine our lives and relationship to God. Beyond the fascinating history, it contains vital and life-transforming truths about God and us.

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

Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says.

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

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.

Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.

The fear of God does not come naturally to human beings; it must be learned through Scripture, worship, and the hard knocks of experience.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

The emphasis in Scripture is not the amount we give, but the attitude with which we give.

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still.

The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

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

The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

The more I read the Scriptures I find an overwhelming case of Scriptures being concerned with the poor, outcast, widow, foreigner and marginalized.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.

The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.

The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions.

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 men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.

The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.

The New Testament is peppered with "one another" reminders. While Scripture says to love another, encourage one another, offer hospitality to one another, be kind to one another, many people are content tolerating one another, if not ignoring one another.

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

The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.

There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp, but if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth it is in fact an arrogant claim to a kind of knowledge which is superior to [all others]...We have to ask: 'What is the [absolute] vantage ground from which you claim to be able to relativize all the absolute claims these different scriptures make?

There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that tell us we must be committed to protecting the poor and the oppressed... There is no concern of Scripture that is addressed so often and so powerfully as reaching out to the poor.

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.

There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.' And what brings me peace is the scripture.

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.

There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and approbation...."There went out a decree in the days of Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.

The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.