“The challenges to the clarity of Scripture start out small. They sound humble and practical at first. But in the end, if… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The sincere effort to accept and promote the human values - Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Non-Violence and Love. These five values are… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Prayer is never an acceptable substitute for obedience. The sovereign Lord accepts no offering from His creatures that is not accompanied by… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I'm not so sure reading Scripture will keep us from having to face trouble as much as it will focus our attention… — Mona Hodgson Copy Share Image
Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's.” To which Tyndale passionately responded: “I defy the Pope, and all his… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and now: What… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humility is essential to the acquiring of spiritual knowledge. To be humble is to be teachable. Humility permits you to be tutored… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We were scripted, (although) I chose my own passage of scripture but I thought, I'm just going to add my own little… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
The Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual… — Albert Mackey Copy Share Image
When we are holding tight to the iron rod, we are in a position to place our hands over theirs and walk… — Rosemary M. Wixom Copy Share Image
So where does Stan fit in this equation?... We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple -… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon that which is found in… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
When Scripture talks about the heart, it's not talking about that life-sustaining muscle. It's talking about our entire inner being. The heart… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Every morning, read seriously and reverently a portion of the Holy Scriptures, and acquaint yourselves with the history and doctrine thereof. It… — Matthew Hale Copy Share Image
“Take every word as spoken to yourselves. When the word thunders against sin, think thus: “God means my sins;” when it presseth… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
I would note that the scripture tells us, "you shall know them by their fruit." We see lots of "campaign conservatives." But… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“Study of the scriptures is not the same as the study of religion and God. So far, we don't yet have a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. You must be prepared to go into deep meditation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Hebrew scriptures say it's okay to enslave anybody except your fellow Jews. It says you should enslave only your neighbors. I… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
My conservative brothers and sisters seem to argue that God revealed everything to us in scripture. Ever since, it has simply been… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
We live in a culture bound by sin like bands of iron. Moral stories, quaint maxims, and life lessons shared from the… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering. These, joined with… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more… — William Jones Copy Share Image
Our claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved… — John Stott Copy Share Image
We treasure the word of God not only by reading the words of the scriptures, but by studying them. We may be… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
We had pastors testifying in favor of gun control. And they were quoting the Bible, too, for it. And there were no… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
So, you want to be like Christ? Me too. But that kind of godliness won't just happen by hanging around a church… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
![“People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon…This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13]that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not…” quote by Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72a/martin-luther-106_astronomy_people-gave-ear-to-an-upstart-astrologer_2817705.jpg)
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