Bible Quotes - Page 14

We shouldn't go to the Bible to back up what we believe. We should look to the Bible to determine what we believe.

If we want to DRAMATICALLY impact the world for the better than we need our hearts and minds to be DRAMATICALLY impacted by God's Word.

Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by God's grace and is on his way to becoming a Christian. (...) Being saved is trusting in what Christ did for us, but being Christian is dependent on the way we respond to what he did for us.

Light has a voice?” Sarucha inquired, amazed.

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. (Psalm 28:7 NIV)

Complacency happens almost without notice. Check and renew your heart daily.

Everything that God wants to say to you is recorded in your Bible…straight from His heart to yours.

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.

I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.

When it comes to the heart and soul, only the Bible can bring true and lasting changes.

It is only right and proper to be moved by the Bible, but present-day reality has so strong a hold over us that even when we try to imagine the past the minor events in our lives immediately wrench us out of our musings, and our own adventures throw us back irrevocably upon our personal feelings - joy, boredom, suffering, anger, or a smile.

Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.

Before we apply Joshua to our lives, we need to make sure which side of the Jordan we are living on. Militarism invites God's wrath.

My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

It is rare to find an established community of Christians that encourages radical expressions of following Jesus. The natural conservatism of institutions is deeply rooted in the desire to survive, and that desire colors and limits the way they read the Bible and how they see God functioning in the world.

How can a man know how to live rightly on the face of earth? By daily reading and meditation on the Holy Scriptures and obedience to what is written.

A single prayer of yours, a few words whispered on your knees, in humble submission to the God of our fathers, and a firm belief that what you ask will in fact be done... and the entire world changes.

I don't judge or believe in any religion, I'm just learning from their divine esoteric stories.

The Bible had been the weapon of choice in the spiritual gladiatorial arena of my youth. I knew how, wielded with intent and precision, the Bible can cut deeply, while on the one holding it can claim with impunity that "this is from God.