Bible Quotes for the Remnant
June 14, 2005
"the Bible definately is infallible, how else could it survive so many years of bad preching"
Leonard Ravenhill
“Defend the Bible? I would just as soon defend a lion. Just turn the Bible loose. It will defend itself.”
Charles Spurgeon
"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
"Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy."
R. C. Sproul
"One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed."
Leonard Ravenhill
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."
George Washington
"The Bible itself is intolerant, and true followers of God's word should be as well."
Bob Jones III
"There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history."
Sir Isaac Newton
"Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!"
Voltaire
"Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages."
Corrie Ten Boom
"Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey it."
Oswald Chambers
"Zeal without knowledge is like a mettled horse without eyes, or like a sword in a madman's hand; and there is no knowledge where there is not the word: for if they reject the word of the Lord, and act not by that, 'What wisdom is in them?' saith the prophet (Jer 8:9; Isa 8:20)."
John Bunyan
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."
George Washington
"There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history."
Sir Isaac Newton
"Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth."
Matthew Henry (1662-1714)
"Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it."
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981)
“Out flashed the sword of the Spirit: our Lord will fight with no other weapon. He could have spoken new revelations, but he chose to say, ‘It is written.’ There is a power in the Word of God which even the devil cannot deny.”
Charles Spurgeon
"If there is anything in my style or thoughts to commend, the credit is due to my parents for instilling in me an early love of the Scriptures. If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity."
Daniel Webster
"This book, sir, is the rock on which our republic rests."
Andrew Jackson
"So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of thier country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year."
John Quincy Adams
"Strange that there should be men so vile as to use the pen-knife of Jehoiakim, to cut passages of the Word, because they are unpalatable. Oh ye who dislike certain portions of the Holy Writ, rest assured that your taste is corrupt, and that God will not stay for your little opinion. Your dislike is the very reason God wrote it, because you ought not to be suited; you have no right to be pleased. God wrote what you do not like; he wrote the truth."
Charles Spurgeon
"Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it."
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981)
"Why would the apostles lie?... if they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perk!"
Peter kreeft
"Skeptics must provide more than alternative theories to the Resurrection; they must provide first-century evidence for those theories."
Gary Habermas
"The canon is a list of authoritative books more than it is an authoritative list of books. These documents did not receive their authority from being selected; each one was authoritative before anyone gathered them together."
Bruce Metzger
"If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood."
Augustine
"The vigour of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts."
George Mueller
"Wherefore, forsaking the vanity of many, and their false doctrines, let us return to the word"
Polycarp
"In our meditation we ponder the chosen text on the strength of the promise that it has something utterly personal to say to us for this day and for our Christian life."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.”
Dwight L. Moody
Posted: June 14, 2005 8:18 PM
