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
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 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 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 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
“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
The reading of the word of God should be performed in solitude, in order that the whole mind of the reader might… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
To say that God is an incorporeal substance, is to say in effect there is no God at all. What alleges he… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
You have to plan it [your devotion to God] every day. And, the best time to plan it is before your day… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one… — King Solomon Son of David Copy Share Image
Sunday morning in America is the greatest hour of idolatry in the whole week. Why? Because most people who are even worshiping… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
I observe there is in Mr. Hooker no affected language; but a grave, comprehensive, clear manifestation of reason, and that backed with… — Richard Hooker Copy Share Image
“Scripture is first and foremost a story. And it’s a story about God. We want to make it a story about us—about… — John Mark Comer Copy Share Image
In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the… — Augustus Hopkins Strong Copy Share Image
Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
Hudson Taylor and Charles Spurgeon believed that Romans prohibits debt altogether. However, if going into debt is always sin, it's difficult to… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
“Scripture really seems to be getting at something here, something about orienting our lives around becoming lifelong learners of Jesus. It is… — Mike Breen Copy Share Image
In every generation there are voices that question the authority of Scripture. So in one sense this is merely part of the… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
In this simple but profound psychological way Scripture tells the history of the fall and of the origin of sin. In this… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
“So the Scripture speaks of a knowledge of God’s dispensation, and covenant of mercy, and way of grace towards his people, as… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Most Christians are not convinced of their own faith. I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Therefore 'Christ hath tasted death for every man:' not only for all kinds of men, as some vainly talk, but for every… — Robert Barclay Copy Share Image
“We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping around in them, but he… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don't believe my interpretation's inerrant. I don't believe anybody else's interpretation is inerrant, but I do believe the scripture is inerrant.… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
How do we take our anger and transform it into sacred rage? How do we create a language that opens the heart… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
God speaks to man through the Scriptures, and He does not reveal normative truth except as it is already revealed in the… — John F Walvoord Copy Share Image
Logically, taking Scripture seriously means being passionately concerned about interpreting it correctly and thus welcoming any evidence that exposes erroneous understandings of… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image