 Give me the plenary, verbal theory of biblical inspiration with all its difficulties, rather than the doubt. I accept the difficulties and humbly wait for their solution. But while I wait, I am standing on the rock. Author: J.C. Ryle |
| Whenever a man takes upon him to make additions to the Scriptures, he is likely to end with valuing his own additions above Scripture itself. Author: J.C. Ryle
Source: Matthew Commentary, Chapter 15. |
| Let us have one day exclusively to study and read the Word of God. If we can't take time during the week, we will have Sunday uninterrupted. Author: D.L. Moody |
| What is Science but what the Natural World has said to natural men? What is Revelation but what the Spiritual World has said to Spiritual men? Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 73. |
| Let us know, then, that the true meaning of Scripture is the natural and obvious meaning; and let us embrace and abide by it resolutely. Let us not only neglect as doubtful, but boldly set aside as deadly corruptions those pretended expositions which lead us away from the natural meaning. Author: John Calvin |
| Now, in order that true religion may shine upon us, we ought to hold that it must take its beginning from heavenly doctrine and that no one can get even the slightest taste of right and sound doctrine unless he be a pupil of Scripture. Author: John Calvin
Source: Institutes, Scripture. |
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| Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them. Author: John Calvin |
| The fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods. Author: John Calvin |
| God speaks by the Church (the true Church we mean); but He speaks nothing by her but what He speaks in the Scriptures, which she does only ministerially declare to us; and therefore the authority of God and His law is above hers, who, though she publish, yet did not make it, but is herself subject to it. Author: John Owen
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions. Author: John Owen
Source: Quoted by Sinclair B. Ferguson, John Owen on the Christian Life, 1987, p. 154. |
| The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we are made partakers of Christ or not, or whether His Spirit dwells in us or not--which argue both the difficulty of attaining an assured confidence herein, as also the danger of our being mistaken, and yet the certainty of a good issue upon the diligent and regular use of means to that purpose. Author: John Owen |
| We must always judge our experience by the Word of God. We must never make God's Word conform to our experience. Author: Tom Wells
Source: Christian: Take Heart! 1987, p. 14. |
