My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“So anyone who thinks that he has understood the divine scriptures or any part of them, but cannot by his understanding build… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“The purpose of all Scripture is to move us on to this wonderful and blessed elevation of faith where our constant experience… — Samuel Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
“In company with Christians down through the ages, we read…every passage of Scripture…out of the fact that for us, the center of… — John Webster Copy Share Image
To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
Scripture is something God had ‘let be,’ and so it is at once God’s creation and the creation of the dozens of… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The scriptures bid us to send forth our light and our truth and when children carry within their hearts the torch of… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
The difficulty is to keep a tight reign on our emotions. They may remain, but it is not they who are to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Wherever you go, your mind will go with you. Your knowledge will go with you, your prejudices will go with you, your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world;… — Chris Adrian Copy Share Image
Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, just as I believe that the Book of Scripture illumines the pathway to God, so I believe that the Book of… — Owen Gingerich Copy Share Image
We are all thieves; we are all thieves; we have taken the scriptures in words, and know nothing of them in ourselves. — Margaret Fell Copy Share Image
“People fight over religion, because they don't understand religion. They think reading a few Bibles, Qurans and Vedas makes them religious. Books… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture… — John Brown Copy Share Image
But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
I am convinced that each of us, at some time in our lives, must discover the scriptures for ourselves—and not just discover… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The republican model described in the Hebrew Scriptures reassured pious Americans that republicanism was a political system favored by God. — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like… — John Milton Copy Share Image
All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is a matter of philosophical or theological speculation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Scripture, a name often connotes purpose, authority, makeup, and character. In fact, a person's name is frequently seen as an equivalent… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“The Order of the Divine mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. What should a man do but try to reproduce… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
![“But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole…” quote by Jonathan Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2fd/jonathan-edwards-770_affection_but-it-is-doubtless-true-and-evident-fro_82879.png)
