Brigham Young Quotes

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

Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.

Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

What Jerry has done, in a masterful way, is go through and select portions of the Scripture and put words in Jesus' mouth that are legitimate because they already appear in the Bible.

Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionably a training manual. However, He has many interpreters, and few people see the Bible as a true training manual.

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

The Bible is a history book.

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

The Bible is not a history book.

There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.'

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.

My aim has been to expound Scripture and to expound Scripture in such a way that I do not set one Scripture over against another.

About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.

When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.

I want to go back to the child I used to be, and to read with the same naiveté [the Pentateuch]. I want to leave science aside and go back to the pure perception offered to me in the text that is waiting there for me year after year.

I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way

We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.

Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it

You can think too highly of your interpretations of Scripture, but you cannot think too highly of Scriptures interpretation of itself. You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God.

The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.

He who is anxious to attain a true understanding of holy Scripture, will discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it to those who are called "spiritual," by comparing the meaning of what is addressed to those of weaker mind with what is announced to such as are of acuter understanding, both meanings being frequently found in the same passage by him who is capable of comprehending it.

Go through John's Gospel, and study the "believes," the "verilys," the " I ams; "and go through the Bible in that way, and it becomes a new book to you.

The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it was the Word of God. Those who most believe it are those who know least about it, and priests always take care to keep the inconsistent and contradictory parts out of sight.

Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.