“Sean: When you started to delve into the New Testament, how influential was that on the way you wrote songs? I'm thinking… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“The fascinating thing about the dream of the sailcloth let down from heaven, containing creatures forbidden to a Jew, was that it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“our real need is not to be “relevant” through new self-styled efforts to morph into a more palatable version of faith. Our… — Daniel Henderson Copy Share Image
“I would also argue against importing alien rationalistic norms to apply to Scripture. When the text speaks of a miracle, for example,… — Alden Thompson Copy Share Image
“According to Richard Lints in The Fabric of Theology, four factors influence the formation of a theological vision. The foundation is, of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites… — John Stott Copy Share Image
A wrong understanding is interested in precisionism. That is it tries to say that the Bible can't be telling the truth if… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
“When the Bible is understood in its literary and historical context; errors, contradictions, and inconsistencies pose no threat to spirituality, whether that… — Valerie Tarico Copy Share Image
Apart from it, the incarnation and the ministry would lose all their significance, the crucifixion would be but a martyrdom, and the… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
So that when you come to read the actual Bible you have a lay of the land. And you come to the… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“The greatest blessings require that we immerse ourselves in our Father's words. To have the scriptures nearby and yet turn to other… — Wayne E. Brickey Copy Share Image
Some, in their curiosity, will say, "But you Mormons have another Bible! Do you believe in the Old and New Testaments?" I… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
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The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“Church is not a building. Church is not an event that takes place on Sundays. I know, it’s how we’ve come to… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
“We had a bishop this morning and what do you think he said? "The most beneficent promise made us in the Bible… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
“What do you do when God has commissioned you but you don’t know the next step? Listen to what the Bible says… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
In the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel's side. There was a primitive national religion, but… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Galatians 5:22-23 describes the fruit of the Spirit, which is "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." Notice the… — Keri Wyatt Kent Copy Share Image
“In the Bible, the word hypocrite shows up 33 times. Interestingly, hypocrite was a common Greek term for an actor who worked… — Mark Cahill Copy Share Image
“With hindsight, it is truly remarkable that, as early as the sixteenth century, Copernicus and his disciple Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514–74) resolved… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
“Some Christians pretend that Christianity was not established by the sword; but of what period of time do they speak? It was… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“When you combine this sacred text with the belief that one’s group alone has a unique revelation, then you can say to… — Robert Alley Copy Share Image
“In the world of the Bible, one’s identity and one’s vocation are all bound up in who one’s father is. Men are… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
“The modern teachings of Christianity often preach of a peaceful, merciful, and loving God/Creator. Culturally, this concept of a God of peace… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“The Step In this step we are preparing to memorize by first reading and understanding the scriptures. We need to make sure… — Adam Houge Copy Share Image
“Freedom and respect for the individual are rooted in the Old Testament, which convinced man that he makes his own history, that… — Joost A. M. Meerloo Copy Share Image
There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“has been diminished in modern Christian thought. Some Definitions and Notes on Use It is important in a book like this to… — Timothy Michael Law Copy Share Image
“To me God’s voice and inspiration is stronger, of greater importance and authority than that of any fairy or any other spirit… — Rabbi Sipporah Joseph Copy Share Image
“...take a page from the life of the little bee. People as a rule think that it gets honey right from the… — Hiram Alfred Cody Copy Share Image
“For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“You people do not have to live like this!" the man pleaded. "We are humans, made in the image of God. No… — Donald Allen Kirch Copy Share Image
“We claim scriptural authority for the assertion that Jesus Christ was and is God the Creator, the God who revealed Himself to… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
“Christie,” said Mr. Keith, “come here and tell us what you would do if you were told to choose one book out… — Pansy Copy Share Image
“As to the fragments of morality that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those books [the Bible], they make no part of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The fact of the matter is, if you read through the instructions to the New Testament churches you will find few explicit… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
So where does Stan fit in this equation?... We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
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