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If you don't have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be.
The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.
The scripture teaches that he who now restrains will continue to do so until he is taken out of the way.
How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.
The fact is, we sometimes read Scripture, thinking of what it ought to say, rather than what it does say.
Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.
If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.
It’s not comparing yourself with others who call themselves Christians. Compare yourself to the Scripture.
The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.
I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.
My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.
The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.
Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God
To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.
Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.
Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.
The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.
Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason.
The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.
Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.
We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.
Worship songs can't just be rooted in culture - they won't be deep enough. They have to be rooted in scripture.
The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture.
For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.
Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it?
To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.
As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct.
You can not understand "Scripture" without seeing through the eyes of the Spiritual Master or Advanced Devotees.
Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.
We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.
We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.
Sometimes when I read Scripture, I'm trying to learn something or teach something or change something in my life.
We don’t go to Scripture for permission to do what we think is best, but for direction to do what He says is best.
Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.
Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.
All Scripture is equally inspired, but not all Scripture is equally applicable or relevant to every stage of life.
All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.
When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken.
We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.
God is so clear in spelling out His attributes in scripture in order that others would know what He is really like.
Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.
The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.
It is a basic tenet throughout the Scriptures that God rewards diligence, faithfulness, endurance, and steadfastness.
Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives.
We are all thieves; we are all thieves; we have taken the scriptures in words, and know nothing of them in ourselves.
The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.