Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment — Quentin L. Cook
We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil. — Saint Basil
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds. — Sayings
The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise. — Billy Graham
The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you. — Cotton Mather
Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles. — Andrew Jackson
When we want to speak to God, we pray. And when we want Him to speak to us, we search the scriptures. — Robert D. Hales
Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book, and I as rarely felt the want of any other. — William Wilberforce
The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior. — J. C. Ryle
We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure. — J. C. Ryle
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. — Howard G. Hendricks
The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home. — Saint Augustine
When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience. — George Muller
Keep studying the scriptures, keep doing the things that build your faith in Jesus Christ and then notice the wise choices you are naturally drawn to make — Russell M. Nelson
Short Reading The Scriptures Quotes
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible. — Mark Twain
Visit many good books, but live in the Bible. — Charles Spurgeon
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. — William Blake
Scripture is the manger in which we find the Christ child. — Martin Luther
Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical. — Mark Driscoll
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years. — Charles Spurgeon
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ. — St. Jerome
Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God. — John Calvin
Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible. — Karl Barth
Reading The Scriptures Image Quotes
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
Lds Quotes
You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others. — Gordon B. Hinckley
We're not alone--at least, we're alone only if we choose to be alone. We're alone only if we choose to go through life relying solely on our own strength rather than learning to draw upon the power of God. — Sheri L. Dew
God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. . . . God will tutor us by trying us because He loves us, not because of indifference! — Neal A. Maxwell
Reading is dreaming with open eyes.
If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience. — Sheri L. Dew
Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of food…and were debt-free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse: they have at least a year's supply of debt and are food-free. — Thomas S. Monson
Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead. — J. Reuben Clark
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. — Myrtle Fillmore
Faith is not so much something we believe; faith is something we live. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah. — Ezra Taft Benson
Do You Quotes
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. — Aldous Huxley
I learned that everybody is not your friend. You have to watch who you associate with and surround yourself with positive things and people who want to do something positive. — Gucci Mane
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. — Albert Schweitzer
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. — Epicurus
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. — Mark Twain
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. — Maya Angelou
We must give up the silly idea of folding our hands and waiting on God to do everything for us. If God had intended for that, then he would not have given us a mind. Whatever you want in life, you must make up your mind to do it for yourself. — Marcus Garvey
What Is A Scripture Quotes
In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the dark. So faith and reason cooperate on a biblical view of faith. They are not intrinsically hostile. — J.P. Moreland
What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man? — Chanakya
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe. — Thomas Paine
I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things... he's not a small God; this God is incredible. — Joel Osteen
The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. This is surely what Jesus means when he talks about the one who has being given more and those who have not losing what little they have. — Richard Rohr
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! — William Shakespeare
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. — John Stott
Scripture paints men as they really are, hiding none of their blemishes or barbaric ways. The honesty of scripture is one of the reasons I knew that the Bible would be the place to go to learn what a real man should be and do. — Dennis Rainey
Meditation on a passage of scripture... led a young boy into a grove of trees to commune with his heavenly Father. That is what opened the heavens in this dispensation — Ezra Taft Benson
Asking for forgiveness from others in a scriptural manner involves acknowledging that you have sinned against them and that you desire mercy and pardon (not to be given what you deserve). Asking for forgiveness is vital for reconciliation and may lead to the difference in the relationship. — John C. Broger
Reading The Bible Quotes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle
The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.” — Charles Spurgeon
A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides. — Immanuel Kant
I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure. — Woodrow Wilson
Read the Bible for the salvation of your soul, not the solution to your problem. — T. B. Joshua
I say this with all respect so that it don't upset you too bad, but I say it anyway. When I read in the Bible where he [Jesus] says, 'I Am,' I just smile and say, 'Yes, I Am, too!' — Kenneth Copeland
The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens. — Galileo Galilei
I don't have a religion. I ain't nothing wrong with church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran, I read the Kabalah, I read the Bible. They all got the same three basic principles: Love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and...As far as me being, I live by those principles. — Kevin Gates
Scripture Study Quotes
Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures. After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God. — Ramakrishna
Truth is not obtained cheaply. It demands much time given to prayer and study of the Scriptures, followed by practical application in our daily lives. It must take priority over the many forms of cheap entertainment offered by our secular culture. It is a lifetime commitment. — Derek Prince
Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing. — Ramakrishna
So the first reason for studying Scripture is that it is a means of spiritual growth. There is none apart from the Word. It is God's primary tool to develop you as an individual. — Howard G. Hendricks
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight. — Venerable Bede
The only things that really need to be accomplished in the home are daily scripture study and prayer and weekly family home evening. — Linda S. Reeves
As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all day and praise the Lord. I don't know about you, but I think that after the first, oh, I don't know, 50,000,000 years of that I'd start to get a little bored. — Rick Reynolds
For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. — Sayings
You have to plan it [your devotion to God] every day. And, the best time to plan it is before your day begins. If you don't plan it, your day will plan you. And so, I make a disciplined life of the study of the scriptures, reading the word every day. — Ravi Zacharias
I'm all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I've been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don't have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing. — Bob Goff
Holy Scriptures Quotes
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures. — John Bunyan
Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform. — John Wycliffe
The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection. — Pope Gregory I
I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors. — John Wycliffe
Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death. — Karl Barth
The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth. — Athanasius of Alexandria
Whoever you may be, always have God before your eyes; whatever you do, do it according to the testimony of the holy Scriptures; in whatever place you live, do not easily leave it. Keep these three precepts and you will be saved. — Anthony the Great
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. — Abraham Lincoln
In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken. — N. Scott Momaday
Scripture Quotes
People tell me judge not lest ye be judged. I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like satan — Paul Washer
A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it — Martin Luther
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? — Paul Washer
The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation. — Dwight L. Moody
Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth. — N. T. Wright
All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof. — John Wycliffe
Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct. — Noah Webster
The Law and the Gospel are two keys. The Law is the key that shutteth up all men under condemnation, and the Gospel is the key which opens the door and lets them out. — William Tyndale
From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures. — Adi Shankara
The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy. — John Knox
Bible Reading Quotes
We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard. — Karl Barth
If I read the newspaper I come out dirtier than I went in. If I read my Bible, I come out cleaner than I went in, and I like being clean! — Smith Wigglesworth
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain. — Billy Graham
The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools. — Benjamin Rush
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom. — Horace Greeley
Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible. — Ronald Reagan
The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah's Witnesses. — Cliff Richard
The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty....The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church: which are to be found clearly written and promuligated in the New Testament. — Samuel Adams
The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed. — Thomas Paine
Sacred Scripture Quotes
For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture. — William of Ockham
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
From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology. — William Holmes McGuffey
Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the present reality, the present experience with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully know the truth beyond words. — Ajahn Sumedho
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
A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none. — William Cowper
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture. — Teresa of Avila
All Sacred Scriptures is but one book, and that one book is Christ, because all divine Scripture speaks of Christ, and all divine Scripture is fulfilled in Christ. — Hugh of Saint Victor
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. — Ambrose Bierce
Sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth. — Martin Luther
We do not wish to abolish teaching and to make every man his own master, but if the curates will not teach the gospel, the layman must have the Scripture, and read it for himself, taking God for his teacher. — William Tyndale
Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God's Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention. — Charles R. Swindoll
Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the scriptures, and next, credible histories, especially of the Church... but take heed of false teachers who would corrupt your understandings. — Richard Baxter
If you don't have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be. — Matthew Kelly
Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou art by grace obliged to; as private prayer, reading the scriptures, and Christian conference. It is a base thing for men so to spend themselves and families after this world, as that they disengage their heart to God's worship. — John Bunyan
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. — Eugene H. Peterson
A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others. — Mark the Evangelist
. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233) — Swami Satchidananda
I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word. This proved meat indeed and drink indeed to my soul. I daily received fresh life, light and power from above. — George Whitefield
Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you as darkness is from light. Truth is not found by observing rituals, undertaking pilgrimages or reading the scriptures. It is simply a waste of time. — Anandmurti Gurumaa
Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in your favorite verses from Scripture tonight. The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths and toxic thoughts. — Lysa TerKeurst
I have discovered a few things that help me when God seems silent...
- Press in to God when you want to pull away.
- Praise God out loud when you want to get lost in complaints.
- Put yourself in the company of truth (reading Scriptures and surrounding yourself with positive, Godly people.) — Lysa TerKeurst
We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own. — Hosea Ballou
Everything we do, our every objective, must be undertaken for the sake of... purity of heart... we must practice the reading of the Scripture, together with all the other virtuous activities... to hold our hearts free of the harm of every dangerous passion and in order to rise step by step to the high point of love. — John Cassian
[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain. — Blaise Pascal
I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word...I would be so overpowered with a sense of God's Infinite Majestey, that I would be contrained to throw myself on the ground, and offer my soul as a blank in His hands, to write on it what He pleased. — George Whitefield
My mom is very religious and she said, 'Whatever you think about all the time, that's what you worship.' If that's the case I'd like everyone to pop open their Diet Coke cans and turn to page 37 of their People Magazines. In this holy scripture, we read the parable of Ms. Valerie Bertinelli. — Maria Bamford
There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will. — Alexander Whyte
Let us each day search from the scriptures and from the prophets…. The scriptures that are never read will never help us. If read, the words of God will nourish our souls and carry us to great heights in our endeavors. — L. Tom Perry
The clarity of Scripture means that the Bible is written in such a way that its teachings are able to be understood by all who will read it seeking God's help and being willing to follow it. — Wayne Grudem
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
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha! — Attila the Stockbroker
The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. — Thomas Merton
The more I read the Scriptures I find an overwhelming case of Scriptures being concerned with the poor, outcast, widow, foreigner and marginalized. — Sho Baraka
I don’t read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite’s rules for old men, which he did not deliver over the air: Never trust a fart. Never pass up a drink. Never ignore an erection. — Roger Angell
Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Oh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture, and to let it be sucked up in your very soul, till it saturates your heart! — Charles Spurgeon
Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way. — J. I. Packer
I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it. — Charles Stanley
For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity. — Martin Chemnitz
Make careful choice of the books which you read:
let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence. — Richard Baxter
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
Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures. — Martin Luther
Does one get faith by mere studying of books? Too much reading creates confusion. The Master used to say that one should learn from the scriptures that God alone is real and the world illusory. — Sarada Devi
Those who delve into the scriptural library … find that to understand requires more than casual reading or perusal—there must be concentrated study. … One who studies the scriptures every day accomplishes far more than one who devotes considerable time one day and then lets days go by before continuing. — Howard W. Hunter
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures. — Adam Clarke
And let them remember that prayer should accompany the reading of Sacred Scripture, so that God and man may talk together; for "we speak to Him when we pray; we hear Him when we read the divine saying." — Ambrose
You will be the same person ten years from now except for the books you read, the places you go, the people you meet, and the scripture you memorize. — Jay Strack
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