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Quotes on the Beauty, Power, and Joy of the Scriptures

“The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.” – Augustine1

“Scripture has the remedy for sinfulness.” – Billy Graham 

“I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.” – R. C. Sproul

“All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.” – David Livingstone

“The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering and the most comfortable way of dying.” – John Flavel

“In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.” – John Owen

“The man who thinks he can know the Word of God by mere intellectual study is greatly deceived. Spiritual truth is spiritually discerned.” – Samuel Chadwick

“God’s Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.” – R. A. Torrey

“Upon being given a Bible, President Abraham Lincoln replied, ‘In regard to this Great book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.’” – Elton Trueblood

“For such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures that, even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else, from boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and with talents greater than I possess, I would still be making progress in discovering their treasures.” – Augustine 

“‘Sharper than any double-edged sword’ A sword with two edges has no blunt side; it cuts both this way and that. The Word of God is edge all over. It is alive in every part, and in every part keen to cut the conscience and wound the heart. Depend on it: not a verse in the Bible is superfluous or a chapter that is useless.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“Even though the Bible is an ancient document, every person in every situation in every society that’s ever existed can find in this book things that endure forever. Here’s a book that never needs another edition. It never needs to be edited, never has to be updated, is never out of date or obsolete. It speaks to us as pointedly and directly as it ever has to anyone in any century since it was written. It’s so pure that it lasts forever.” – John MacArthur

“Faith is to rest, not in the best of God’s servants, but in His unchanging Word.” – Harry Ironside 

“To those holy men who gave us the sacred Scriptures we owe a debt we can never hope to pay.” – A. B. Simpson 

“The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.” – A. W. Tozer 

“The remedy for discouragement is the Word of God. When you feed your heart and mind with its truth, you regain your perspective and find renewed strength.” – Warren Wiersbe

“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

“Imagine if we started raising generations of children who stood uncompromisingly on the Word of God, knew how to defend the Christian faith, could answer the skeptical questions of this age, and had a fervor to share the gospel from the authority of God’s Word with whomever they met! This could change the world.” – Ken Ham

“We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.” – Isaac Newton


1 All of these quotes are from the websites below:

Inspirational Quotes on Scripture

158 Quotes About Scripture | ChristianQuotes.info

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