The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant… — Erich Auerbach Copy Share Image
I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Many who are convinced that God is non-violent simply dismiss the Old Testament accounts of God commanding or engaging in violence. I… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Testimony requires the nurturing by the prayer of faith, the hungering for the word of God in the scriptures, and the obedience… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The Word of truth teaches in the clearest and most positive terms that all of the dead will be raised. No doctrine… — C. I. Scofield Copy Share Image
Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all… — Rick Reynolds Copy Share Image
Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent. — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency. — Alan Watts 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
How do you remain - steadfast and immovable during a trial of faith? You immerse yourself in the very thing that helped… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light. — John Dryden 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
Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image