Anne Hutchinson Quotes

I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind; and certainly, I should feel it no small glory if I were enabled to be one of his most noted prophets (using this word in my own peculiar sense) in this world.

Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament.

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

God had to teach me a lot of things.

A 'real pastor' is not preaching of their own; they are speaking what God put in their heart by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is using them at that very moment to speak to the congregations situations -past, present, and future.

There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life.

The minister and the priest teach that the organization is greater. No great philosophy has ever come from an organization, but from an individual whose research has been a personal study of God and ITS ways.

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

I seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also.

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible.

Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.