Scripture Quotes

• Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Biblical, Beer

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• The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Bible, Religious

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• Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds

  Paul the Apostle

  Bible, Submission To God, Priorities In Life

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• We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

  Hosea Ballou

  Rules Of Life

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• Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

  John the Apostle

  Biblical, Tongue, Action

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• We don’t go to Scripture for permission to do what we think is best, but for direction to do what He says is best.

  David Platt

  Thinking, Permission

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2015

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• If God is for us, who can be against us?

  Paul the Apostle

  Bible, God, Christian

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• A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.

  William Cowper

  Light, Giving, Age

  William Cowper (1855). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems : Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.677

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• The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Wind, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Problem”

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• The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Majesty, Admiration

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1767). “The Miscellaneous Works of Mr. J. J. Rousseau”, p.224

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• One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Thinking, Credit

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.91

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• The history of every individual man should be a Bible.

  Novalis

  Men, Individual, Should

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 693, Christianity or Europe, Carlyle's translation, 1922.

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• How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.

  Isaac Watts

  Book, Idols, Stones

  Isaac Watts, John DOBELL (1805). “Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book fourth. Composed on divers subjects by I. Watts. Compiled and arranged by J. Dobell”, p.61

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  Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, Christian, Book

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”

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• 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.

  James Russell Lowell

  Gun, Thinking, Causes

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• And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.

  John Dryden

  Corruption, Clear, All Things

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.294, Pearson Education

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• Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you

  Luke the Evangelist

  Bible, Jesus, Hate

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• In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Bible, Christ Consciousness, Bread Of Life

  N. Scott Momaday, Al Momaday (1969). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.7, UNM Press

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• For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

  Jeri Smith-Ready

  Christian Inspirational, Unseen, Bible Verse

  Jeri Smith-Ready (2010). “Shade”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• To lay down one's life for the truth.

  Juvenal

  Laying Down, Bible Verse, Love One Another

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• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha!

  Attila the Stockbroker

  Bible, Bread Of Life, Creator God

  Song "The Bible According to Rupert Murdoch", 1992.

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• Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.

  Bo Burnham

  Bible, Jesus, Kindness

  Song: Haikus Sonnet Shakespeare, Album: Words Words Words, 2010

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• He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Heart, Hands

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• God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Faith, God

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• Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

  Jim Butcher

  Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

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