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Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.

- Walter Lang

But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

- Walter Lang

For the most part, we have an opportunity to go to church and learn the context of Scripture, but we struggle with applying that and putting it into forward action, rather than learning it in principles.

- Stephen Lynch

The school district and Ministerium will begin the service with a welcome. Then (the Rev.) Alex Perednia will read scripture verses and give a eulogy.

- Steve Adams

The way he used examples of our actual lives and compared it to the scripture made it easier for me to understand.

- Jennifer Austin

Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.

- Anita Hill

For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.

- Al Aldridge

The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.

- Al Aldridge

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

- Alan Graf Jr

Each of our children during their high school years went to `early morning seminary` - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.

- Alan Levy

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

- Alberto Bernal

I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.

- Alex Laughlin

There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

- Allison Hanna

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.

- Allison Janse

If it squares with the Scripture, then let`s go. If it`s in conflict with the Scripture, then it`s heresy.

- Amy Newman

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

- Andre P. Brink

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.

- Andrea Cerutti

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

- Andrea Dziewior

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

- Andrew Baum

What Jerry has done, in a masterful way, is go through and select portions of the Scripture and put words in Jesus` mouth that are legitimate because they already appear in the Bible.

- Andrew Fanara

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.

- Andrew Greeley

Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.

- Andrew Nielson

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

- Andrew Rudnick

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

- Andrew Saunders

Many things there be in the scripture, which have a carnal fulfilling, even there where they be spoken or done; and yet have another spiritual signification, to be fulfilled long after in Christ and his kingdom, and yet never known till the thing be done.

- Andrew Saunders

Such thinking -- in which the responsibility for repentance, restoration and healing falls exclusively on one side of a disagreement -- is not the way of reconciliation laid out for us by the Scripture.

- Antun Domic

The unanimous verdict of scripture is that practicing homosexuality is a sin, ... Love ... must not compromise the church`s allegiance to scripture.

- April Prout

I therefore became very melancholy and highly troubled. No Scripture could comfort me, though I was quite well versed in it.

- Arja Suominen

Alcoa`s earnings appears to resemble a biblical scripture because it can be interpreted in many ways,

- Barbara Anglin

The scripture that comes to my mind is `Jesus wept,` ... Jesus weeps today for the loss of life in New Orleans and he weeps that his gospel is being hijacked by the rabid rhetoric of the religious right -- that is in its own way as destructive to our national fabric as Hurricane Katrina has been.

- Barbara Lindsay

In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and "experts" have affirmed it. "Studies show" is to the modern secular college graduate what "Scripture says" is to the religious fundamentalist.

- Dennis Prager

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical

- William Shenstone