Inspiration Quotes

“The value of “inspiration” emerges, thus, as twofold. It gives to the books written under its “bearing” a quality which is truly superhuman; a trustworthiness, an authority, a searchingness, a profundity, a profitableness which is altogether Divine. And it speaks this Divine word immediately to each reader’s heart and conscience; so that he does not require to make his way to God, painfully, perhaps even uncertainly, through the words of His servants, the human instruments in writing the Scriptures, but can listen directly to the Divine voice itself speaking immediately in the Scriptural word to him.”
― Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Inspiration: The Undeniable Truth About the God-Breathed Scriptures

“If heights are to be scaled above man’s native power to achieve, then something more than guidance, however effective, is necessary. This is the reason for the super-induction, at the end of the long process of the production of Scripture, of the additional Divine operation which we call technically “inspiration”. By it, the Spirit of God, flowing confluently in with the providentially and graciously determined work of men, spontaneously producing under the Divine directions the writings appointed to them, gives the product a Divine quality unattainable by human powers alone.”
― Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Inspiration: The Undeniable Truth About the God-Breathed Scriptures

“What if the word of God that comes to His people is framed by God into the word of God it is, precisely by means of the qualities of the men formed by Him for the purpose, through which it is given?”
― Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Inspiration: The Undeniable Truth About the God-Breathed Scriptures

“There is to be considered, for instance, the preparation of the material which forms the subject-matter of these books: in a sacred history, say, for example, to be narrated; or in a religious experience which may serve as a norm for record; or in a logical elaboration of the contents of revelation which may be placed at the service of God’s people; or in the progressive revelation of Divine truth itself, supplying their culminating contents”
― Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Inspiration: The Undeniable Truth About the God-Breathed Scriptures

“Generalizing the matter, we may say that the words of Scripture are conceived by our Lord and the New Testament writers as the words of their human authors when speaking “in the Holy Spirit”, that is to say, by His initiative and under His controlling direction.”
― Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Inspiration: The Undeniable Truth About the God-Breathed Scriptures

“The former is the more likely view, inasmuch as the entirety of Scripture is elsewhere conceived and spoken of as prophetic. In that case, what Peter has to say of this “every prophecy of scripture”—the exact equivalent, it will be observed, in this case of Paul’s “every scripture” (2 Tim. 3:16)— applies to the whole of Scripture in all its parts.”
― Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Inspiration: The Undeniable Truth About the God-Breathed Scriptures

“They are of Divine origin and therefore of the highest value for all holy purposes.”
― Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Inspiration: The Undeniable Truth About the God-Breathed Scriptures

“In a word, what is declared by this fundamental passage is simply that the Scriptures are a Divine product, without any indication of how God has operated in producing them.”
― Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Inspiration: The Undeniable Truth About the God-Breathed Scriptures