Thomas Campbell Quotes

In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.

There must be no inventing or recounting to the people of new things … uncanonical and according to their own taste rather than the Holy Scriptures.

To ignore Scripture is to ignore Christ.

I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

The Bible is … authoritative on everything of which it speaks. And it speaks of everything.

There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not true, then you can just take man's ideas as true. When you go outside of Scripture, why shouldn't you just reinterpret what marriage means? So our emphasis is on the slippery slope regarding authority.

It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and that the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable. But I should have in your place added that, though Scripture cannot err, its expounders and interpreters are liable to err in many ways; and one error in particular would be most grave and most frequent, if we always stopped short at the literal signification of the words.

The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

The Word of the Lord endures forever. The Bible is to judge us; we're not to judge the Bible.

The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher.

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.

If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.

The doctrine of Scripture teaches us about the authority of God's Word. Scripture must be the final rule of faith and practice for our lives. Not our feelings or emotions. Not signs or prophetic words or hunches.

It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.

Where religion speaks, reason has only a right to hear.

All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof.

The Bible alone is the only authority that can bind the conscience of a person absolutely because it is the only authority that carries with it the intrinsic authority of God Himself.

The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible as the word of God, and in the Church (this Church or that) as the interpreter of that word.

In every generation there are voices that question the authority of Scripture. So in one sense this is merely part of the continuing stream. But there's a sense in which the questions that are raised against Scripture vary a wee bit from generation to generation.

Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.

If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

We are sometimes told that we are not a biblical church. We are a biblical church. This wonderful testament of the Old World, this great and good Holy Bible is one of our standard works. We teach from it. We bear testimony of it. We read from it. It strengthens our testimony. And we add to that this great second witness, the Book of Mormon, the testament of the New World, for as the Bible says, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall [all things] be established" (2 Cor. 13:1).

Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.