Christian Quotes on the Bible
Christians thru history loved and respected the Bible. They thought highly of the Word of God, treated it as such and watched Almighty God do wonderful things with it. We need to return to having that kind of attitude about the Bible.
Inerrancy is a natural corollary of inspiration. If it is inspired of God, then God, who is God, gets it right. – Jeff Amsbaugh
The primary qualification demanded in the reader of the Bible is not scholarship but surrender, not expert knowledge but willingness to be led by the Spirit of God. – Martin Anstey
The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars. – Henry Ward Beecher
Beware of reasoning about God’s Word – obey it! – Oswald Chambers
The rule that governs my life is this: Anything that dims my vision of Christ or takes away my taste for Bible study or cramps my prayer life or makes Christian work difficult is wrong for me, and I must, as a Christian, turn away from it. – J. Wilbur Chapman
Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them? – Michael Faraday
No one ever graduates from Bible study until he meets its Author face to face. – Everett Harris
God’s Word is its own best argument. – Vance Havner
The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete. – Vance Havner
The more reverence we have for the Word of God the more joy we shall find in it. – Matthew Henry
There is no book so varied as the Bible, nor so full of concentrated wisdom. – Herbert Hoover
Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves. – William Gurnall
The Bible is an inexhaustible fountain of all truths. The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.
Few tremble at the Word of God, Few, in reading it, hear the voice of Jehovah, which is full of majesty. – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
You ought to read your Bible each day until your heart burns. – Tom Malone
God’s Word is as good as He is. There is an old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well, God is as good as His Word. His character is behind what He has said. – J. Vernon McGee
A fundamental Baptist is one who believes in a supernatural Bible, which tells of a supernatural Christ who had a supernatural birth, who spoke supernatural words, who performed supernatural miracles, who lived a supernatural life, who died a supernatural death, who rose in supernatural power, who ascended in supernatural glory, who intercedes in supernatural priesthood and who one day will return in supernatural victory to establish a supernatural kingdom on the earth. – J. H. Melton
In prayer we talk to God. In Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking. – D.L. Moody
Cling to the whole Bible, not a part of it. A man is not going to do much with a broken sword. – Moody
I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the Bible. – D.L. Moody
The Bible is not given to increase our knowledge but to change our lives. — D.L. Moody
Sin will keep you from this book. This book will keep you from sin. – Dwight L. Moody
I like to study the Guide Book to the country where I am going. – Samuel Morse
The Bible was the only book Jesus ever quoted, and then never as a basis for discussion but to decide the point at issue. – Leon Morris
The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts. – George Muller
I’ve got a Book here. I’ve got a Book, and it’s the only Book, – Stand on it, and challenge the world. – J. Frank Norris
If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible. – J.I. Packer
I will put down all apparent inconsistencies in the Bible to my own ignorance. – John Newton
While other books inform, and some few reform, this one book transforms. – A.T. Pierson
Partial examination will result in partial views of truth, which are necessarily imperfect; only careful comparisons will show the complete mind of God. – A.T. Pierson
No one can be a good Christian who does not with holy zeal set out to know, delight in, and live by the Word of God! – John Rice
Any Christian is handicapped in being led by the Spirit if he does not know his Bible, for the Holy Spirit always leads in accordance with the revealed will of God in the Bible. – John Rice
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. – J.C. Ryle
The deity of Christ is the key doctrine of the scriptures. Reject it, and the Bible becomes a jumble of words without any unifying theme. Accept it, and the Bible becomes an intelligible and ordered revelation of God in the person of Jesus Christ. – J. Oswald Sanders
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years. – Charles H. Spurgeon
A Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t. — C.H. Spurgeon
Backsliders begin with dusty Bibles and end with filthy garments. – C.H. Spurgeon
The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ’s church. – C.H. Spurgeon
If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need. – C.H. Spurgeon
You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty or overthrow a doubt? – C.H. Spurgeon
God’s Word is pure and sure, in spite of the Devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything. – R.A. Torrey
The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinion of any man. – R.A. Torrey
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfections. 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
We must never edit God. – A.W. Tozer
Nothing can cut the diamond but the diamond; nothing can interpret Scripture but Scripture. – Thomas Watson
The Scriptures sprang out of God. – William Tyndale
The Bible is a rock of diamonds, a chain of pearls, the sword of the Spirit; a chart by which the Christian sails to eternity; the map by which he daily walks; the sundial by which he sets his life; the balance in which he weighs his actions. – Thomas Watson
Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in the schools and its general precepts expounded and its glorious principles of morality inculcated? Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament? – Daniel Webster
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. – Noah Webster
All the knowledge you want is comprised in one book, the Bible. – John Wesley
A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world, who has deprived himself of a knowledge of the Bible. – Woodrow Wilson
You can only understand Scripture on your knees. – Maurice Zundel
The devil is not afraid of the Bible that has dust on it. – Unknown
There’s a big difference between the books that men make and the Book that makes men. – Unknown
Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God … What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be. – John Adams 2nd President of the United States, a member of the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. (quote from America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations by William J. Federer)