There's all the difference in the world between humbly saying "I want to find more light from Scripture than we have yet had" and saying "I'm going to prove the rest of the Church wrong and do something totally new!"
It is precisely because Biblical revelation is absolutely authoritative and perspicuous that the scientific facts, rightly interpreted, will give the same testimony as that of Scripture. There is not the slightest possibility that the facts of science can contradict the Bible.
As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process of evolution, and in a sense, we have become the process itself - through the emergence and evolution of our consciousness, our awareness, our capacity to imagine and to anticipate the future and to choose from amongst alternatives.
The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture.
Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.
For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith.
The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still.
If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.
Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.
In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whether you're obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don't see any purpose for me in being ordained.
Holy Scripture could never lie or err. . . its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof.
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.
Every morning as I read the scripture, every night, I quote the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule.
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it.
God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.