364 Quotes About Scripture

Scripture is one of many instruments to attain the Goal (experience of pure Soul). How can it be discarded?

There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these little sheets of paper speak to us, arouse us, teach us, open our hearts and in turn open their hearts to us like brothers. Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, philosophy lame.

A steward in the above scripture is a servant who serves.

Christ speaks through the Bible and every means of divine revelation in the Bible.

Every argument against the Bible is based on made-up stuff.

There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of them asked, "Why on our hearts, and not in them?" The rabbi answered, "Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your heart, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

The study of scripture leads to the right knowledge of God.

We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach us—and this is remarkable—the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea.