Scripture Quotes - Page 9

We must think ourselves empty when coming to the text of scripture and read ourselves full.

Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then you will find time to read to them the scriptures.

All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.

The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.

A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.

It is a basic tenet throughout the Scriptures that God rewards diligence, faithfulness, endurance, and steadfastness.

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible.

I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.

All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless...For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because "free-will" can do nothing.

I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.

As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct.

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

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

Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.

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.

Scripture tells us that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord. I believe all these signs are evident today.

Scripture would not only solve the individual and family divisions, but it would also solve the ecclesiastical confusion.

If you will study the scriptures diligently, your power to avoid temptation and to receive direction of the Holy Ghost in all you do will be increased.

The highest truth is daiji, translated as dai jiki in Chinese scriptures. This is the subject of the question the emperor asked Bodhidharma: "What is the First Principle?" Bodhidharma said, "I don't know." "I don't know" is the First Principle.

One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.

The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

You can not understand "Scripture" without seeing through the eyes of the Spiritual Master or Advanced Devotees.