Ellen G. White Quotes

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

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.

Mark this, you that despise and oppose the Message of the Lord God that he sends by Women; What had become of the Redemption of the whole Body of Mankind, if they had not cause to believe the Message that the Lord Jesus sent by these Women

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

Let me tell you something you already know: reading is critically important - especially for Christian believers. God, after all, reveals Himself to us in the written words of Scripture. Think about it: when we read the Word, we place ourselves in the very presence of God.

If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience.

My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.

I actually do propose open-mindedness, but open-mindedness to the Word of God.

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

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 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.

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.

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.

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

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

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

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.

No one will ever convince me that the word of God is not true.

To ignore Scripture is to ignore Christ.

Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

When the Scripture speaks, God speaks

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.