Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.
Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift.
The Sins of Scripture is an interesting title; most people don't put sins and scripture together in the same title. It jars people.
My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.
If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.
The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.
You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.
Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.
As you engage your mind in the scriptures, your mind will become pure.
When one considers our nation's educational foundations - Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian - it becomes evident why we, as Christians, maintain a passion about remaining true to the foundations of Scripture.
If I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. . . . Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem non materialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.
When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.
The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.
Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which is natural to awareness, because the mind that desperately desires to reach another realm or level of experience inadvertently ignores the basic light that constitutes all experience.
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.
A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it
The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta. . . . It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.
Archaeology in general is the recovery and study of the material culture of past civilizations. Biblical archaeology is as an application of the science of archaeology to the field of biblical studies. Through the comparison and integration of Scripture with the evidence of history and culture derived from archaeology, new insights into the biblical context of people and events, and sometimes the interpretation of the text itself, are possible. In this way archaeology serves as a necessary tool for biblical exegesis and for apologetic concerns.
True Christians delight to read the Scriptures, because they tell them about their beloved Savior.
Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.