Scripture Quotes - Page 27

• The Bible is not a book of magic. It's a book of mystery. You can't just quote verses that support your prejudices or guarantee your health, wealth, and happiness and demand that God 'follow through' as promised. God is not limited to the words of Scripture. God is still speaking.

  Mel White

  Book, Wealth And Happiness, Support

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• When one comes to know God and His Son Jesus Christ through the scriptures, the Spirit, and personal revelation, it is impossible to feel anything other than overwhelmed by the attributes so perfectly developed in them and so tentatively and superficially developed in oneself. Even so, we are told to strive to become like them.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Son, Spirit

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• I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.

  John Stott

  Pain, Voice, Listening

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• If you meditate long enough, deep enough, it is impossible for you to hurt anybody for food; it is impossible. It is not a question of argument, it is not a question of scriptures, it is not who says what, it is not a question of calculating that if you take vegetarian food you will become spiritual; it is automatic. It is not a question of cunningness, you simply become spiritual. The whole thing seems so absurd. Just for food, killing animals, birds, seems so absurd, it falls down.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Hurt, Fall

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• If you're anxious about the state of the world, that's understandable. But trade your anxiety for the blessing of hearing the words of Scripture, keeping them in faith and obedience, and remembering the time is near.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Does one get faith by mere studying of books? Too much reading creates confusion. The Master used to say that one should learn from the scriptures that God alone is real and the world illusory.

  Sarada Devi

  Real, Book, Reading

  "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations" by Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, (p. 348), 2004.

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• It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Design, Creation, Holy

  Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.7

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• Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world.

  Joseph C Zinker

  Art, Prayer, Discovery

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• It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

  Alan Hirsch

  Hero, Journey, Ongoing

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.75, Baker Books

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• In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.

  Thomas Paine

  Kings, War, Pride

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.7, Ravenio Books

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• Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.

  Iain Pears

  Thinking, People, Ears

  Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.72, Penguin

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• Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.

  Greg L. Bahnsen

  Self, Christ, Ends

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• Fr. Amphilochios, the geronta or elder on the island of Patmos when I first stayed there, would have been in full agreement. Do you know, he said, that God gave us one more commandment, which is not recorded in Scripture? It is the commandment love the trees. Whoever does not love trees, so he believed, does not love God. When you plant a tree, he insisted, you plant hope, you plant peace, you plant love, and you will receive God's blessing.

  Kallistos Ware

  Christian, Blessing, Islands

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• The scriptures bid us to send forth our light and our truth and when children carry within their hearts the torch of hope, they learn the darkness yields not only to man-made fire, but to starlight, to the rising sun, and to the light of the soul.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Children, Heart, Men

  Rep. Dennis Kucinich Formal Announcement of Candidacy, Cleveland City Council Chambers, October 13, 2003.

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• The Bible is not a book like any other. It makes a claim that God spoke and speaks through its message. It argues that as his creatures, we are accountable to him for what he has revealed. The trustworthiness of Scripture points to its authority as well. Scripture is far more than a history book, as good and trustworthy as that history is. It is a book that calls us to examine our lives and relationship to God. Beyond the fascinating history, it contains vital and life-transforming truths about God and us.

  Darrell Bock

  Book, Messages, Arguing

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• My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of the Christian scriptures.

  Preston Manning

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the scriptures, and next, credible histories, especially of the Church... but take heed of false teachers who would corrupt your understandings.

  Richard Baxter

  Teacher, Book, Choices

  "A Christian Directory: Or, a Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases of Conscience Directing". Book by Richard Baxter, 1673.

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• It does happen, of course, that the priesthood has been on bad terms with womankind for some three thousand years. You see, Buddhism teaches that women are evil. Fiends. Messengers of hell. I've spent years immersed in the scriptures, so it's no accident that you and I fight all the time.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Fighting, Buddhism, Years

  Eiji Yoshikawa (1981). “Musashi”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou art by grace obliged to; as private prayer, reading the scriptures, and Christian conference. It is a base thing for men so to spend themselves and families after this world, as that they disengage their heart to God's worship.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Art, Prayer

  JOHN BUNYAN (1860). “THE ENTIRE WORKS”, p.171

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• Jesus has revealed Himself in the Scripture. If we want to know Him, if we want to know the Truth, we must devote ourselves to the reading, study, and meditation of His Word

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Jesus, Reading, Meditation

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2007). “Lies Women Believe/Companion Guide for Lies Women Believe- 2 book set”, p.162, Moody Publishers

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

  Martin Luther

  Christ, Masters, Servant

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• Zen is a special transmission outside the Canonical Scriptures; it does not depend upon texts.

  Robert Linssen

  Special, Doe, Transmission

  Robert Linssen (1958). “Living Zen”

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• The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Father, Important, Holy

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “A Byzantine Nobleman In Exile Composing Verses”

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• The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.

  John Calvin

  Christ, Should, Aim

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• The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

  John Knox

  Foundation, Substance, Weight

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