Scripture Quotes
The more I read the Scriptures I find an overwhelming case of Scriptures being concerned with the poor, outcast, widow, foreigner and marginalized.
Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.
We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.
A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.
Most of the heroes of Scripture rose to their greatest victories after their worst mistakes. God is in the redemption business, and He testifies of this through the lives of everyone He calls.
It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation.
For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.
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!
We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.
It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.
I have tried and I cannot find, either in scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply.
It was Scripture that I had hidden in my heart that quickly came to mind when my frustration felt stronger than my faith.
As we remember prayer and take time to turn to the scriptures, our lives will be infinitely more blessed and our burdens will be made lighter.
Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.
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.
Scripture does not say that God is 'love, love, love' or that He is 'wrath, wrath, wrath,' but that He is 'holy, holy, holy.'
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead.
The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.
To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only that it be an honest study - a search for truth.
His Spirit speaks with promptings that are not audible—often they are much louder than that—always in perfect harmony with the Scriptures and always resounding with perfect wisdom.
The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God's Spirit.
Worship plays a major role in the Christian daily life. Throughout Scripture we see worship from David dancing before the Lord to Jesus rejoicing in the Spirit.
Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.
The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.
Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).
They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.
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 have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.
Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.
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.
We must think ourselves empty when coming to the text of scripture and read ourselves full.
I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.
The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.
Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves.
Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.
