Saint Patrick Quotes

Real Christianity is based upon God's word given to us through the scriptures, and His word is final.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

Religion is a sham when it claims to reveal the secret of life and death, to possess the eternal supreme truth, when it says that he who does not believe shall be damned.

Scrutamini scripturas [Latin for “Let us look at the scriptures.”). These two words have undone the world.

The Bible states it. It must be so.

I can't change what the word of God says.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I don't have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow.

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.

Faith can make no appeal to reason or the fitness of things; its appeal is to the Word of God, and whatever is therein revealed, faith accepts as true.

The word of God is a Christian's instructions for life. God speaks to us through His word, so we cannot constantly be running on empty.

Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.

The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries.

The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

The Bible is the fountain of truth.