Scripture Quotes - Page 9

• The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Perfect, Rainbow, Novelists

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Scripture indicates that heaven is not distant but rather... heaven is near in another realm.

  Paul P. Enns

  Heaven, Realms

  Paul P. Enns (2011). “Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About”, p.54, Moody Publishers

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• We are limited by our visual, physical senses; yet from the Scriptures we can readily conclude that heaven is indeed not distant at all. It is nearby.

  Paul P. Enns

  Heaven, Visuals, Senses

  Paul P. Enns (2011). “Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About”, p.64, Moody Publishers

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• I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.

  Frances Harper

  Character, Firsts, Moses

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.103, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Bible, Civilization, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.97

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• No one can know truth except the one who obeys truth. You think you know truth. People memorize the Scriptures by the yard, but that is not a guarantee of knowing the truth. Truth is not a text. Truth is in the text, but it takes the text plus the Holy Spirit to bring truth to a human soul.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Thinking, Knowing, People

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• Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

  Saint Augustine

  Angel, Names, Heaven

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.468, Catholic Way Publishing

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• [Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulation. For (b) there is a "peculiar comfort" in the society of man and woman "beside, (i.e. in addition to, apart from) the genial bed"; and (c) we know from Scripture that something analogous to "play" or "slackening the cords" occurs even in God. That is why the Song of Songs describes a thousand raptures...far on the hither side of carnal enjoyment.

  C. S. Lewis

  Song, Men, Thinking

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• There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.' And what brings me peace is the scripture.

  Tammy Faye Bakker

  Jesus, Giving, Thanks

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• Those who believe the Author of Nature to be also the Author of Scripture must expect to find in Scripture the same sorts of difficulties that they find in Nature.

  Origen

  Believe, Difficulty

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• Majoring in religion, listening to TV evangelists interpret the scriptures and dictate my offerings-I found my God inside myself-in every moment and piece of matter. Everything is animate.

  Amy Ray

  Offering, Listening, Matter

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• Knowledge about God is of two kinds, direct and indirect. Indirectly we can read scriptures, listen to sermons, consult authorities, and from these sources build a reasonable case that God exists. But such a God transmits no love to Earth. Therefore nothing substitutes for gyana, which is direct knowledge of the divine. Instead of having thoughts about God, you share God's own thoughts. Her thoughts can only be about Herself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Two, Earth, Kind

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• When we encounter the world of ideas for the first time, we easily get overwhelmed. Scripture is telling us, 'Don't be distracted by the details. Cut to the core by asking, What is its idol?' Whatever functions as its God substitute will shape everything else.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Cutting, Idols, Ideas

  "Finding Truth". Interview with Jonathan Petersen, www.biblegateway.com. December 10, 2015.

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• Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if I can rouse my countrymen, immersed in tamas, to stand on their own feet and be men inspired with the spirit of karma-yoga. I am a follower only of he or she who serves and helps others without caring for his own bhakti and mukti!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Yoga, Caring

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• You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. You must be prepared to go into deep meditation now, and the next moment you must be ready to go and cultivate the fields. You must be prepared to explain the intricacies of the scriptures now, and the next moment to go and sell the produce of the fields in the market....The true man is he who is strong as strength itself and yet possesses a woman's heart.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Heart, Men

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• Scripture does not say that God is 'love, love, love' or that He is 'wrath, wrath, wrath,' but that He is 'holy, holy, holy.'

  R. C. Sproul

  Wrath, Doe, God Is Love

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• There are two very important things you need to realize from this verse of Scripture. The first one is: Whatever we must receive from God must come as an act of faith, because God is a Faith-God.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Two, Important, Firsts

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• Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.

  Benjamin Rush

  Study, Our Lives, Ifs

  Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.95

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

  Galileo Galilei

  Book, Heaven, Going To Heaven

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• The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Today, Favourite, Used

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• I was taken in the Spirit to the burning bush on Mount Horeb, Moses' "first ascension," and allowed to witness the encounter he had with the Lord there. Throughout the visitation, I was enabled to know and feel the thoughts and emotions of Moses' inner being. ... There was a Holy Narrator beside me who helped me understand what I saw and heard, and he made references to relevant passages of Scripture. There were other Biblical figures also present - Joshua, Samuel, David, and even the Lord Jesus were there.

  Bob Hartley

  Jesus, Taken, Biblical

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• We've got at least two other streams of that are filled with good, helpful material on meditation - the Catholic stream and the Quaker stream that are not primarily based on meditating on the Scripture.

  Timothy Keller

  Two, Meditation, Catholic

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• The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on it divine inspiration.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspiration, Doubt, Mind

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.61, Ballantine Books

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• What if one of the core elements of a radical Christianity lay in a demand that we betray it, while the ultimate act of affirming God required the forsaking of God? And what if fidelity to the Judeo-Christian scriptures demanded their renunciation? In short, what if the only way of finding faith involved betraying it with a kiss?

  Peter Rollins

  Christian, Kissing, What If

  Peter, Rollins (2006). “How (Not) to Speak of God: Marks of the Emerging Church”, p.96, Paraclete Press

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• All teaching and all truth and all doctrine must be tested in the light of the scriptures.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Teaching, Light, Doctrine

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1995). “Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings”, Nelson Bibles

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