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Ye shalt knoweth the truth and it shalt set thy free.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

You can read the word of God, but without mediation and prayer, we become spiritually weak and unfilled.

You ought to read, mediate and affirm the living word of God.

You must not only pray and fast, but read and mediate on word of God.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

Your attitude toward Scripture can reveal your attitude toward the Savior. When your passion for God's Word runs high, your passion for God does as well.

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

All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?

All Scripture is God-breathed and He doesn't waste His breath.

America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.

And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day .... The reason why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that we observe many other things, not because the Bible, but because the church has enjoined it.

Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.

As in paradise, God walks in the Holy Scriptures, seeking man.

At the beginning of each chapter, a heading tells us about what is happening in the chapter. We can ask, "What was going on here? What was this person feeling?" When we take time to look more closely at the scriptures, we can better understand what they can teach us. This will build our self-confidence and our testimony.

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

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.

But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

Both my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them.

But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.

Divine Scripture is wont to frame, as it were, allurements for children from the things which are found in the creature; whereby, according to their measure, and as it were by steps, the affections of the weak may be moved to seek those things that are above, and to leave those things that are below. But the same Scripture rarely employs those things which are spoken properly of God, and are not found in any creature; as, for instance, that which was said to Moses, I am that I am; and, I Am has sent me to you.

Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.

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".

Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having taught us first of all by his works, did it afterwards, by his Words. We will now for a while read the former of these books; 'twill help us in reading the latter. They will admirably assist one another.

Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a source of stimulation, and nothing more... Adopted, rather than used as a stimulus, they are a hindrance.

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

Every morning as I read the scripture, every night, I quote the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule.

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.

Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.

God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to him. He must disclose to us who he is before we can offer him what we are in acceptable worship. The worship of God is always a response to the Word of God. Scripture wonderfully directs and enriches our worship.

God's will concerning financial prosperity and abundance is clearly revealed in the Scriptures.

For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

God's Word brought me peace and a desire for a relationship with Him. I found that questioning Him and searching for answers through Scripture helped me grow and gave me direction. Now my faith in Christ is what gives me confidence for the future. I know that through both good times and bad, He is faithful and will watch over me.

God's Word is not presented in Scripture in the form of a theological system, but it admits of being stated in that form, and, indeed, requires to be so stated before we can properly grasp it - grasp it, that is, as a whole. Every text has its immediate context in the passage from which it comes, its broader context in the book to which it belongs, and its ultimate context in the Bible as a whole; and it needs to be rightly related to each of these contexts if its character, scope and significance is to be adequately understood.

God then does not profess to answer in Scripture all the questions that we, in our boundless curiosity, would like to ask about Scripture. He tells us merely as much as He sees we need to know as a basis for our life of faith.

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.

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.

Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.

He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors.