Quotes about Scripture

If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in.

It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.

I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity.

All prophecy is based on a revelation from God, but always operates at a lower level of authority than that of inspired Scripture.

God is so clear in spelling out His attributes in scripture in order that others would know what He is really like.

Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.

Inerrancy means the word of God always stands over us and we never stand over the word of God.

The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.