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As we remember prayer and take time to turn to the scriptures, our lives will be infinitely more blessed and our burdens will be made lighter.

Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.

Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.

I don't read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite's rules for old men, which he did not deliver over the air: Never trust a fart. Never pass up a drink. Never ignore an erection.

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures.. are found upon comparison to be really part of the original law of nature. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these.

America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

Therefore, let God inspired Scripture decide between us; and on whichever side be found doctrines in harmony with the Word of God, in favor of that side will be cast the vote of truth

It's good that kids know the Scripture. It's best that they know the Scripture and get the concept. All I can say is, it's working.

Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon him.

I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope.

they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not another, contrary to all scriptures.

The Scriptures sprang out of God.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.

Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.

I have tried and I cannot find, either in scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply.

Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have denounced it if he had known of it.

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.

The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions.

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.

If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!

The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.

The fact is, we sometimes read Scripture, thinking of what it ought to say, rather than what it does say.

No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

Scripture tells us that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord. I believe all these signs are evident today.

We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.

Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.

Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.

[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.

So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.

Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.

My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

It is good to read the testimonies of Scripture; it is good to seek the Lord our God in them. As for me, however, I have already made so much of Scripture my own that I have more than enough to meditate on and turn over in my mind. I need no more . .. I know Christ, the poor crucified One.

A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.

Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the Scriptures.

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless...For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because "free-will" can do nothing.

Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.

When the Scripture speaks, God speaks

You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases.

Sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine.

I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.

I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.

The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists; these, though good and necessary to life here below, are vain and of no effect as to what concerns the life eternal.

We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still.

Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.

In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well.

He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors.

Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.

I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth...

Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.

God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner.

The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.

Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures.

The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.

If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.

When I eat alone I feel like a seminarian being punished. I tried it for one week and I was not comfortable. Then I searched through Sacred Scripture for something saying I had to eat alone. I found nothing, so I gave it up and it's much better now.

It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.

In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.

Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.

Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives.

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.

Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says.

Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then you will find time to read to them the scriptures.

Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ...but unless you realize the Truth, there is no freedom.

Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.

Both my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them.

Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.