“Sola scriptura contends that Scripture is complete; it holds absolute authority over the believer.19 This position is of course far removed from… — Harry Freedman Copy Share Image
We like to pretend the core ideas of the faith are more palatable or workable within our modern rationalistic approach to Scripture… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
I keep a lot of my old baseball hats, and if you look in the hats I've had since I started pitching,… — Scotty McCreery Copy Share Image
God did everything necessary to get Herod's attention. He sent messengers from the East and a message from the Torah. He sent… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was the worst teacher you have ever imagined - not that we did not have fun. We had a ton of… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We ought not, as soon as we leave church, to plunge into business unsuited to church, but as soon as we get… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural… In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As the moon, though darkened with spots, gives us a much greater light than the stars that sewn all-luminous, so do the… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are not doomed to an ultimate conflict with no hope of resolution. The message of the Scripture is one of victory… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Furthermore, consider that as one of its most important purposes, stewardship of creation should sustain nature's worshiping capacity. The more I reflect… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“If the Lord wishes to use editors and compilers to bring His message to us, that is His decision. And so He… — Alden Thompson Copy Share Image
The Bible is so deep! As the 6th-century church father Gregory put it: "Scripture is like a river...shallow enough...for the lamb to… — Martin Manser Copy Share Image
Just as Jesus learned obedience by the things He suffered, we learn obedience by the difficult circumstances we face. When we obey… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
Yoga is more a state than a methodology. A state where there is nothing missing. You don't feel like you have to… — Colleen Saidman Copy Share Image
Sacred scripture is of course the basic authority for everything; yet I sometimes run across ancient sayings or pagan writings - even… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I use the Scriptures, not as an arsenal to be resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as a matchless temple,… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I think that the authority of Scripture must be accepted by Catholics and Protestants, and that if our doctrinal judgments are not… — Matthew Levering Copy Share Image
...the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves… — Richard Furman Copy Share Image
The scriptures are basically a narrative of God's interaction with human kind. If we lose this notion of God's desire for relationship… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
There is a growing threat to the environment, to the vegetation, animals, water and air. Sacred Scripture hands us the image of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we are made… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ said more about money than about any other single thing because, when it comes to a man's real nature, money… — Richard Halverson Copy Share Image
Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A devotional book, which takes a Scripture text, and so opens it for us in the morning - that all day long… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
The first priority will consist in restoring a sense of the acceptance of life as a gift from God. According to both… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it says 'Be still and know you are God.' What… — Ajahn Brahm Copy Share Image
No, the Scriptures were not given to us to confuse us but rather to instruct us. Certainly God intends that we should… — M. R. DeHaan Copy Share Image
The more I studied the Bible, however, I had to admit that the prosperity message did not line up with the tenor… — Jim Bakker Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our nation, on the character of God, on the… — William Holmes McGuffey Copy Share Image
The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The sufficiency of Scripture means that Scripture contained all the words of God he intended his people to have at each stage… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“If we neglect Scripture in order to read only other books, we not only cut ourselves from the divine umbilical cord that… — Tony Reinke Copy Share Image
The truth is that we don't know much about the spiritual world except for what Scripture tells us, so it's unwise to… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
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