God has a controversy with those who wrest the Scriptures, making them conform to their preconceived ideas”(SM 3, p. 82)
“Many study the Scriptures for the purpose of proving their own ideas to be correct. They change the meaning of God’s word to suit their own opinions. And thus they do also with the testimonies that He sends.”
From: Manuscript 22, 1890.
“The student of the Bible should be taught to approach it in the spirit of a learner. We are to search its pages, not for proof to sustain our opinions, but in order to know what God says.”
Education, p. 189