Scripture Quotes - Page 27

• One reason why people find applying the Bible to work so difficult is that the world of Scriptures seems so distant from our modern world today. Many established realities we encounter daily, like non-profit and for-profit corporations, did not exist in the ancient world.

  David Kim

  Reality, People, Encounters

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Believers are often encouraged to spend some time each day alone praying and reading the Bible. This is a good thing, modeled by Jesus himself. But too often people view this time with God as sufficient, and as separate from the rest of their lives; they essentially leave Jesus on their bedside table and ignore him the rest of the day. This is a far cry from the ongoing walking in the Spirit, abiding in Christ, persevering, praying, and rejoicing presented in Scripture.

  Kenneth Boa

  Jesus, Reading, People

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The Bible is a collection of writings by lots of different people written over maybe a thousand years, from a number of centuries before Jesus to a century after Jesus. I often like to refer to it as "the Scriptures" to make that point about it being lots of writings that were originally separate. What these writings have in common is that "the Old Testament" is writings that grabbed the Jewish people; writings that convinced them that they were God's word to them. And "the New Testament" is writings that grabbed people who believed in Jesus in the same way.

  John Goldingay

  Jesus, Writing, People

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• How do we take our anger and transform it into sacred rage? How do we create a language that opens the heart instead of closing it? To bear witness is not a passive act. It's an act of consequence that leads to consciousness. It matters. I am curious. I want to know why. I was raised with a scripture that says, "The glory of God is intelligence." And to me our greatest intelligence is following our instincts, trusting our intuition.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Heart, Intuition, Language

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• We forget, we have a short memory and we're human. This morning my Scripture was Isaiah 26:3, which said, Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee for he trusteth in Thee.

  Naomi Judd

  Morning, Memories, Perfect

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• The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

  Peter Abelard

  Passion, Men, Miserable

  Orlando Williams Wight, Peter Abelard, Héloïse, Alphonse de Lamartine (1861). “Lives and Letters of Abelard and Heloise”, p.209

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• I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

  Maya Angelou

  Forever, Earth, Old Testament

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• The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.

  Michele Bachmann

  Teacher, Prayer, Heaven

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• In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Sin, Righteous

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• The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so plain and precious.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Book, Understanding, Taught

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• Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.

  Annie Besant

  Believe, Islam, Als

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• It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

  Bono

  Air, Poverty, Coincidence

  Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast, delivered 2 February 2006, The Hilton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah, the place of punishment is called hell.

  Kirk Cameron

  Jesus, Believe, Punishment

  "Kirk Cameron, From Sitcom Star to Evangelist" by Martin Bashir, abcnews.go.com. March 17, 2006.

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• The church as a whole has strayed quite far from biblical evangelism; that is, sharing the Gospel in the way that Jesus did, the way the Apostle Paul did, and the rest of the disciples and prophets in Scripture.

  Kirk Cameron

  Jesus, Biblical, Church

  "Kirk Cameron: The Gospel Truth". Interview with Laura Bagby, www.cbn.com.

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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

  Party, Reason Why, Needs

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• An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.

  Tony Campolo

  Believe, Views, Messages

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• Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

  Tony Campolo

  Doe, Hebrew, Omnipotent

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• The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment.

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Judgment, Nations

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• Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.

  Tony Campolo

  Believe, Hard Times, Twenties

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• Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Believe, Doctrine

  "The Surprising Evangelical Support for Newt Gingrich" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2012.

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• A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

  Umberto Eco

  Dream, Atheist, Positive Atheism

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.468, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Heaven, Atheism, Privilege

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.

  James Fenton

  Dark, Long, Racism

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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

  Science, Thinking, Problem

  "Pale Blue Dot". Book by Carl Sagan (p. 43), 1994.

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• Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

  Lady Gregory

  Book, Teaching, Childhood

  Lady Gregory (1919). “The Kiltartan Poetry Book”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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