If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just "dogmatically" true or "doctrinally" true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life.

All the minister's efforts will be vanity if he have not unction. Unction must come down from heaven and spread a savor and feeling and relish over his ministry; and among the other means of qualifying himself for his office, the Bible must hold the first place, and the last place also must be given to the Bible and prayer.

Of course, the Bible does not answer every question about life. Not every fork in the road has a biblical arrow.

If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!

It is one thing to read the Bible, choosing something that suits me (as is shamefully said), and another thing to search it that I may become acquainted with God in Christ.

When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy.

am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could write a book like that.

The Bible and the Bible only is the religion of the Protestants.

...there is in a spiritual heart a co-naturality to the Word of God, because this is the seed which did regenerate him. The Word is that seal which made all the holy impressions that are in the hearts of true believers, and stamped the image of God upon them...

There are mysteries of grace and love in every page of the Bible; it is a thriving soul that finds the Book of God growing more and more precious.

I have determined to study nothing but the Bible. Literature is inimical to spirituality if it be not kept under with a firm hand.

Let all writers have their due esteem, but compare none of them with the Word of God. We will not refuse their service, but we must abhor them as rivals or competitors. It is the sign of a distempered heart that loseth the relish of Scripture excellency.

It is easier for me to have faith in the Bible than to have faith in D.L. Moody, for Moody has fooled me lots of time.

The Bible's authority is undermined by our culture in every area, whether natural science, social sciences or history. Unless we are convinced that the attacks on the Bible's authority in these areas are groundless, our spirituality will necessarily be affected.

All Christians are Disciples or Schollars of Christ, the church is his School; we are his Ushers, the Bible is his Grammar.

Every error may be based upon some part of Scripture taken from its connection; But no error can stand the test of all Scripture.

The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no-one dreams of questioning. And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt.

Sadly enough, there is a kind of an anti-intellectualism among many Christians: spirituality is falsely pitted against intellectual comprehension as though they stood in a dichotomy. Such anti-intellectualism cuts away at the very heart of the Christian message. Of course, there is a false intellectualism which does destroy the work of the Holy Spirit. But it does not arise when men wrestle honestly with honest questions and then see that the Bible has the answers. This does not oppose true spirituality. Death in the City (Downers Grove, InterVarsity Press: 1969) 84-85

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees the worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond; but most people only look at it; and so they see only the dead letter.

If the word do not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

I would rather lay my soul asoak in a half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

England has two books; the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare but the Bible made England.

I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous.

I am a man of one book.

The Bible in the pulpit must never supercede the Bible at home.

I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the Pope.

It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading people.

The great cause of neglecting the Scriptures is not want of time, but want of heart, some idol taking the place of Christ.

We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in his word, he intended to be conspicuous in our lives.

I have known 95 of the world's great men in my time, and of these, 87 were followers of the Bible.

Sin will keep you from this book. This book will keep you from sin.

The most valuable thing the Pslams do for me is to express that same delight in God which made David dance.

If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you. Do not come with the notion that it is a thing which you may push around at your convenience.

We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.

I am a Bible bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.

I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; since I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world, should cover its true meaning in such mystery and doubt, that none but critics and philosophers can discover it.

This was the book that would understand me!

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write damnation with your fingers.

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold on me.

Our wisdom ought to be nothing else than to embrace with humble teachableness, and at least without finding fault, whatever is taught in Sacred Scripture.

Whoever seems himself to have understood the divine scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

The Word of God confronts us as our adversary before he makes himself our Lord and Master.

No matter how far back we may press our researches into the roots of the gospel story, no matter how we classify the gospel material, we never arrive at a non-supernatural Jesus.

'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world.