Scripture Quotes: Wisdom and Inspiration from the Sacred Texts

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose"

"More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure"

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

"The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews"

Anne Hutchinson, Clergyman

"However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery"

Samuel Hopkins, Clergyman

"No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture"

Learned Hand, Judge

"There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

"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"

Wilson Mizner, Dramatist

"He'd believe anything provided it's not in Holy Scripture"

Douglas Feaver

"I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue"

William Tyndale, Clergyman

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

Umberto Eco, Novelist

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

William Gurnall, Author

"Many things there be in the scripture, which have a carnal fulfilling, even there where they be spoken or done; and yet have another spiritual signification, to be fulfilled long after in Christ and his kingdom, and yet never known till the thing be done"

William Tyndale, Clergyman

"For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do"

Anne Hutchinson, Clergyman

"No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints"

Charles Simeon, Clergyman

"The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped"

Anita Hill, Professor

"Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation"

William Ames, Philosopher

"To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word"

Sebastian Franck

"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"

William Shenstone, Poet

"After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth"

John Biddle, Clergyman

"What Jerry has done, in a masterful way, is go through and select portions of the Scripture and put words in Jesus' mouth that are legitimate because they already appear in the Bible"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those"

John Frame, Philosopher

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

Frank R. Wolf, Politician

"I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony"

George Carey, Clergyman

"But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process"

Walter Lang, Director

"But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15"

Clayton Christensen, Businessman

"Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space"

Walter Lang, Director

"The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture"

Salvatore Quasimodo, Author

"Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture"

Martin Chemnitz, Theologian

"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, Theologian

"This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head"

John Nelson Darby, Clergyman

"A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man"

Orson Pratt, Theologian

"I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get"

Willie Aames, Actor