#scripture

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification. ↗

— William Ames

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The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor. ↗

— Tony Campolo

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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

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I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God. ↗

— Josh McDowell

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I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin. ↗

— Joel Osteen

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More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure. ↗

— Roy L. Smith

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To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word. ↗

— Sebastian Franck

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There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of them asked, "Why on our hearts, and not in them?" The rabbi answered, "Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your heart, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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