The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity.
Bible Quotes
The Bible as we have it contains elements that are scientifically incorrect or even morally repugnant. No amount of “explaining away” can convince us that such passages are the product of Divine Wisdom.
Come to the Bible, not to study the history of God’s divine action, but to be its object; not to learn what it has achieved throughout the centuries and still does, but simply to be the subject of its operation.
All Bibles are man-made.
Standardization of texts wasn’t a high priority in the early years of printing. Spelling showed considerable variety, and punctuation and grammar weren’t much more consistent. Copies of the “same” edition were rarely identical. There are no two identical copies of the first folio edition of Shakespeare’s works (of which probably a thousand “copies” were printed […]
Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.
Be assiduous in reading the Holy Scriptures. This is the fountain whence all knowledge in divinity must be derived. Therefore let not this treasure lie by you neglected.
If one who lights a lamp before himself in broad daylight seems strange, then how much stranger is one who remains in the shadow of the law of the Old Testament when the Gospel is being preached.
I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about such things, and inquire from the Holy Scriptures all these things.
Conversation between God and mankind in this world, is maintained by God’s Word on his part, and by prayer on ours. By the former, he speaks and expresses his mind to us; by the latter, we speak and express our minds to him. Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly […]
