Scriptures Quotes

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

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

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.

In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.

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

A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn`t Christianity at all.

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.

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns

I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.

Should it be said that the Greeks discovered philosophy by human wisdom, I reply that I find the Scriptures declare all wisdom to be a divine gift

The Scriptures Set down efficient laws for the worship of God and government of church which no man may add to or diminish.

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.