Keep God’s word in this way. Let it enter into your very being, let it take possession of your desires and your whole way of life. – St. Bernard
The outcome or the fruit of reading Holy scripture is by no means negligible: it is the fullness of eternal happiness – St. Bonaventure
When I make use of the words of Scripture, it is not always to explain them, but to explain myself by them, since they are more worthy of love and veneration. – St. Francis de Sales
QUOTES BY OTHER FAITHFUL MEN & WOMEN
What is wisdom, for the biblical authors, but the view from above, a participation in God’s way of seeing things and ordering the world? – Bishop Barron
Sacred Scripture is the speech of God as it is put down in writing under the breath of the Holy Spirit. – Dei Verbum
The root of sin lies in the refusal to hear the word of the Lord, and to accept in Jesus, the Word of God, the forgiveness which opens us to salvation. – Pope Benedict XVI
There is no common ground between what happens in the Gospels and what happens in myths, particularly the more developed myths. – René Girard
