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Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; 2)But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. ↗

— Anonymous

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In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

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Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent. ↗

— Tony Campolo

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Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on. ↗

— Sydney Carter

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Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. ↗

— Anonymous

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let us be strong like unto Moses ↗

— Nephi

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So anyone who thinks that he has understood the divine scriptures or any part of them, but cannot by his understanding build up this double love of God and neighbor, has not yet succeeded in understanding them. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

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Every good & perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the Heavenly Lights. ↗

— Anonymous

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