Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use… — My Favorite Qoutes Copy Share Image
What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is the ability to make wise decisions and pursue them. The bible said "wisdom is the principal thing". This means it's… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
In deep pain, people don't need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally… — William Lloyd Garrison 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
A Ten-Point Plan for Increased Spirituality: 1. Read Scriptures Daily. 2. Pray Fervently and Sincerely. 3. Fast Meaningfully. 4. Retire Early and… — Joe J. Christensen Copy Share Image
“The shoemaker [Johann Ludwig] W[eidmann, 6th-GGF]. has been having some serious scruples about some verses of Holy Scripture, about which I set… — Johann Martin Boltzius Copy Share Image
I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scripture quotations, pure and simple. That would be impregnable against… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
“I would also argue against importing alien rationalistic norms to apply to Scripture. When the text speaks of a miracle, for example,… — Alden Thompson Copy Share Image
Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“So anyone who thinks that he has understood the divine scriptures or any part of them, but cannot by his understanding build… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
The more I read the Scriptures I find an overwhelming case of Scriptures being concerned with the poor, outcast, widow, foreigner and… — Sho Baraka Copy Share Image
Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
“In company with Christians down through the ages, we read…every passage of Scripture…out of the fact that for us, the center of… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“The purpose of all Scripture is to move us on to this wonderful and blessed elevation of faith where our constant experience… — Samuel Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Scripture is something God had ‘let be,’ and so it is at once God’s creation and the creation of the dozens of… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
“People fight over religion, because they don't understand religion. They think reading a few Bibles, Qurans and Vedas makes them religious. Books… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are all thieves; we are all thieves; we have taken the scriptures in words, and know nothing of them in ourselves. — Margaret Fell Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture… — John Brown Copy Share Image
But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Scripture tells us that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord. I believe all these signs are evident… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across… — Ray Lewis Copy Share Image
The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Why, in the scriptures of the Bible and Holy Qur'an, did God create man first? I believe that we are in the… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The more I read, the more I see. Connections get made. Lights go on. God speaks. Often, when I am facing some… — Ann Spangler Copy Share Image
Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it.… — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image