Quotes by Scripture How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting. John Hagee mislead-us scripture doe Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered. John Calvin embrace scripture holy Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up John Howard Griffin scripture fool errors We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those whom it was his pleasure one day to admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom to destruction. We maintain that this counsel, as regards the elect, is founded on his free mercy, without any respect to human worth, while those whom he dooms to destruction are excluded from access to life by a just and blameless, but at the same time incomprehensible judgment John Calvin scripture one-day hands And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require. John Dryden scripture clear corruption Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide. John Newton scripture failing trouble If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false. John Owen agree revelations scripture If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all. John Owen scripture ifs The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us. John Ortberg scripture goal For a man solemnly to undertake the interpretation of any portion of Scripture without invocation of God, to be taught and instructed by His Spirit, is a high provocation of him; nor shall I expect the discovery of truth from any one who thus proudly engages in a work so much beyond his ability. John Owen scripture discovery men The natural man "cannot see or discern that divine excellency in the Scripture, without an apprehension whereof no man can believe it aright to be the word of God." John Owen scripture men believe 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 judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God's, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior. John Stott scripture echoes mind Some parts of the Bible are dreadful. In fact, my working title for The Sins of Scripture was "The Terrible Text of The Bible." John Shelby Spong titles scripture facts Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. John the Apostle tongue scripture biblical God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures. John Stott scripture knowing way It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible. John Stott scripture christian impossible 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 liberty prayer The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name. John Stott scripture sake names In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church. John Wesley scripture cases church They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called "Let's Pretend." Let's pretend that we possess the objective truth of God in our inerrant Scriptures or in our infallible pronouncements or in our unbroken apostolic traditions. John Shelby Spong scripture atheism games «678910111213141516»
