For people are like mist, here today gone tomorrow.

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose, Sergeant,’ Anthony Payne replied. ‘That is from The Merchant of Venice, but it holds great truth.”

— Michael Arnold

God loves to glorify himself by suspending his gifts and blessings on our asking him for them. We should never presume to receive from…

— Sam Storms

We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but…

— John Newton

If you ponder the scriptures and begin to do what you covenanted with God to do, I can promise you that you will feel…

— Henry B. Eyring

Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross,…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which the story…

— Eugene H. Peterson

Intellectual methods-study and reason-are essential to our progress toward eternal life, but they are not sufficient. They can prepare the way. They can get…

— Dallin H. Oaks

One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the…

— Arnold Beichman

“The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to stop using…

— Dan Barker

“Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in Judaism. In…

— Reza Aslan

But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the…

— John Calvin

“If your expectation of God’s Word in your life has been small, I ask you to consider giving it far more credit. Second Timothy…

— Beth Moore

One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we…

— Thomas Paine