The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Are you letting culture, not scripture, determine your sexuality, how you date, how you present yourself, how you engage in certain relationships… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
What we want to do is make sure they're not totally kept from what's going on in the world. We don't want… — Alex Kendrick Copy Share Image
There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called "Let's Pretend." Let's pretend that we possess the objective truth of God… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
When I am in situations where I break out of the pattern, it's hard on me. Once you get used to regular… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I believe we're going to grow in heaven. I believe we're going to keep growing. The Bible says one day we shall… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
My hermeneutics is when I see verses in Scripture that are "apparent" contradictions - I don't believe they are contradictions - I… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The temptation is for us to share our own opinions, our own thoughts and to speak from the whole realm of possibility.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“judging by how the Bible actually behaves—God did not design scripture to be a hushed afternoon in an oak-paneled library. Instead, God… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin. We are not speaking… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics . . . dare to reprove this work, because of some passage… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
“And what is it that preachers do, to this very day? Do they interpret and expound the Scriptures? Yet if the Scripture… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Both Christ and Scripture, says the Second Vatican Council, are given "for the sake of our salvation" (Dei Verbum 11), and both… — Scott Hahn Copy Share Image
Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Here again Diatribe confidently brings in a gloss to suit herself, just as if Scripture were under her complete control. As for… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
So these are the kind of things that now when people are trying to move towards multiracial congregations that they're stressing. They're… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
In my book, The Sins of Scripture, I traced the development of tribal religion, which included ideas like God's killing the Egyptians… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying 'Fear not.' The Victorian angel looks… — Kathryn Lindskoog Copy Share Image
Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“No scripture comes directly from God. They are collections of rules or values or both, that were shaped by the socio-economic conditions… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
“And every nation which shall war against thee, O house of Israel, shall be turned one against another, and they shall fall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you teach, you need to give the students incentives by grades or by other factors. I went to the Bible to… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Neither Peter in his work to include Gentiles in the church nor the abolitionists in their campaign against slavery argued that their… — Matthew Vines Copy Share Image
Don't yield to Satan's lie that you don't have time to study the scriptures. Choose to take time to study them. Feasting… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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