Knowledge about God is of two kinds, direct and indirect. Indirectly we can read scriptures, listen to sermons, consult authorities, and from… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
All through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We are not entitled to such licence, I mean that of affirming what we please; we make the Holy Scriptures the rule… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
There is no figure more common in scripture, and none more beautiful, than that by which Christ is likened unto light. Incomprehensible… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“I Nephi, being exeedingly young, nevertheless being large in stature, and also having great desires to know of the mysteries of God,… — Joseph Smith Jr Copy Share Image
We are to believe and follow Christ in all things, including his words about Scripture. And this means that Scripture is to… — James Montgomery Boice Copy Share Image
Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be… — Wei Wu Wei Copy Share Image
I'm trying to get good message out to the people. It's like the scriptures because you know what the scriptures are in… — Sizzla Copy Share Image
This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture — of sinfulness and hell and God’s notable severity — is idolatrous and cowardly.… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time… — Anonymous 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
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
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
You can think too highly of your interpretations of Scripture, but you cannot think too highly of Scriptures interpretation of itself. You… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Both modern and ancient scripture are full of reminders of Heavenly Father’s eternal love for His children. I am confident that our… — Paul E. Koelliker Copy Share Image
“He (Lincoln) saw how intellectually and spiritually impoverished a person would be if he was limited to his own personal resources. The… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
You know the Scripture says "be not deceived for God is not mocked; whatsoever a man sow that shall he also reap."… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
Let us cleave... to those who cultivate peace with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire it. For the… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
If God has given graces to some good women, revealing to them something holy and good through His Holy Scriptures, should they,… — Marie Dentiere Copy Share Image
It does happen, of course, that the priesthood has been on bad terms with womankind for some three thousand years. You see,… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
Among the Mormons, things temporal have always been important along with things eternal, for salvation in this world and the next is… — Leonard J. Arrington Copy Share Image
“When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit can’t remind you of something you never read which is why it’s important to memorize scripture. When you have… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book of magic. It's a book of mystery. You can't just quote verses that support your prejudices… — Mel White Copy Share Image
“holy scripture was believed to justify her subordination and explain her inferiority; for even as a copy she was not a very… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we… — John Newton Copy Share Image
“If Christians have learned anything from our rocky two-thousand-year theological history, it’s that we make the most beautiful things ugly when we… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Scripture is the thing I like to share with people more than anything. My prayer reality is quite kooky. I have this… — Stephen Baldwin Copy Share Image
The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Let… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I have discovered a few things that help me when God seems silent... - Press in to God when you want to… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
God's Word must be so strongly fixed in our minds that it becomes the dominant influence in our thoughts, our attitudes, and… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
There's two kinds of thinking. There is conjunctive thinking and there's disjunctive thinking. Disjunctive thinking says it has to be either/or. Now… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
What if one of the core elements of a radical Christianity lay in a demand that we betray it, while the ultimate… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image