364 Quotes About Scripture

Today, Christianity need people that read scripture like Jesus, like the prophets, people who are not afraid to challenge existing structures of thought with life infusing readings of scripture.

The question to ask is: do we view Scripture as stories to imaginatively live into or do we view Scripture as prescriptions for how to live?

In other words, the prophets are weirdos. More than anyone else in Scripture, they remind us that those odd ducks shouting from the margins of society may see things more clearly than the political and religious leaders with the inside track. We ignore them at our own peril.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

The shield of Faith is spiritual food.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the Heavens....

Wounded and nearly blind with fear, I clung to the Scriptures:'Ask and you shall receive...''Pray without ceasing...''I will do whatever you ask for in My name...'Grimly, I shut out another verse, this one from the book of Job: 'The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.

And my father dwelt in a tent.

I Nephi, being exeedingly young, nevertheless being large in stature, and also having great desires to know of the mysteries of God, wherefore, I did cry unto the Lord; and behold he did visit me, and did soften my heart that I did believe all the words which had been spoken by my father; wherefore, I did not rebel against him like unto my brothers.