From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
God loves to glorify himself by suspending his gifts and blessings on our asking him for them. We should never presume to… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our… — John Newton Copy Share Image
If you ponder the scriptures and begin to do what you covenanted with God to do, I can promise you that you… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Intellectual methods-study and reason-are essential to our progress toward eternal life, but they are not sufficient. They can prepare the way. They… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran… — Arnold Beichman Copy Share Image
“The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit;… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's… — Joseph C Zinker Copy Share Image
When one considers our nation's educational foundations - Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian - it… — Jonathan Falwell Copy Share Image
The Sins of Scripture is an interesting title; most people don't put sins and scripture together in the same title. It jars… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Liturgy puts us to work along with all the others who have been and are being put to work in the world… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I've learned a simple principle: all I have to do is be the best 'me' that I can be. One day when… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention! — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
“No knowledge comes from the outside world or an imaginary supernatural paradise.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It is certain that one who studies the scriptures every day accomplishes far more than one who devotes considerable time one day… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
I'm an elder in a Presbyterian church. I've taken Scripture seriously. I really do believe, like my more religious colleagues, that religion… — Jim Himes Copy Share Image
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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