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• In Matthew, chapter 6, verse 21, the scriptures teach us that where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. My friends, any man who aspires to be our president should keep both his treasure and his heart in the United States of America.

  Ted Strickland

  Heart, Men, America

  The Former Governor’s DNC Remarks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.

  John Knox

  Doctrine, Add, World

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• I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.

  John Wycliffe

  Doctors, Sacred Scripture, Holy

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• All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof.

  John Wycliffe

  Christian, Life Is, Christian Life

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• We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's.” To which Tyndale passionately responded: “I defy the Pope, and all his laws; and if God spares my life, ere many years, I will cause the boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scriptures than thou dost!

  William Tyndale

  Boys, Years, Law

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• I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is not a pointer to God but God himself... God cannot be confined within the covers of a leather-bound book. I develop a nasty rash around people who speak as if mere scrutiny of its pages will reveal precisely how God thinks and precisely what God wants.

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Book, Thinking

  Brennan Manning (2011). “The Signature of Jesus”, p.174, Multnomah

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• The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.

  Thomas Berry

  Communication, Revelations, Divine

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• The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Meaningful, Wisdom, Yoga

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• One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. ...works have a place--but as a demonstration of having received God's forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Forgiveness, Heaven, Merit

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• I weep when I see these videos that are sent to me from all over the country.  Whole groups of bodies jerking out of control, falling on the floor, laughing hysterically, staggering around like drunkards Anything that cannot be found in Scripture has to be rejected outright  -  totally rejected.

  David Wilkerson

  Country, Fall, Laughing

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• They're called in the Scripture the Beatitudes. You know why they're called the Beatitudes without being prestigious? Because they should be the attitudes of every believer. That's the normal Christian life, not the abnormal Christian life. The normal Christian life is holiness.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Attitude, Abnormal

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• Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it?

  Ardeth Kapp

  Home, Letters, Imagine

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• My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

  Herman Wouk

  Son, Two, Literature

  Herman Wouk (1970). “This is my God: the Jewish way of life”, Touchstone

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• Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  New Orleans, Sticks, Jazz

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• Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise. Family members may learn to be obedient, honest, industrious, self-reliant, and faithful in living gospel principles, or they may learn something else. Learning the gospel in the homes of Church members should be centered on the scriptures and on the words of the latter-day prophets. The Lord has commanded parents to teach their children.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Children, Home, Self

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• Whereof it followeth Rome to be the seat of antichrist, and the pope to be very antichrist himself. I could prove the same by many other scriptures, old writers, and strong reasons.

  Thomas Cranmer

  Strong, Rome, Pope

  Thomas Cranmer (1846). “Miscellaneous Writings and Letters of Thomas Cranmer”, p.63

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• And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day .... The reason why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that we observe many other things, not because the Bible, but because the church has enjoined it.

  Isaac Williams

  Holy Days, Church, Saturday And Sunday

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• The more I studied the Bible, however, I had to admit that the prosperity message did not line up with the tenor of Scripture.  My heart was crushd to think that I led so many people astray.  I was appalled that I could have been so wrong, and I was deeply grateful that God had not struck me dead as a false prophet.

  Jim Bakker

  Grateful, Heart, Thinking

  Ken Abraham, Jim Bakker (1998). “Prosperity and the Coming Apocalyspe”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

  Erich Auerbach

  Rebel, Stories, Favors

  Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said (2013). “Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

  Benjamin Rush

  Children, Mean, Mind

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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• We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

  Rich Mullins

  Humble, Guessing, Realizing

  Concert in Lufkin, Texas, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.

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• We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach us — and this is remarkable — the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea.

  Rich Mullins

  Running, Ideas, People

  Seminar at LeSEA Broadcasting Studios in South Bend, Indiana, February 1993.

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• It's so funny being a Christian musician. It always scares me when people think so highly of Christian music, Contemporary Christian music especially. Because I kinda go, I know a lot of us, and we don't know jack about anything. Not that I don't want you to buy our records and come to our concerts. I sure do. But you should come for entertainment. If you really want spiritual nourishment, you should go to church... you should read the Scriptures.

  Rich Mullins

  Christian, Spiritual, Thinking

  Concert in Lufkin, Texas, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.

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• People as well as nations perish without scriptures. The scriptures are spiritual food for our spirit, which is just as important as physical food for our body.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Spiritual, People, Important

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• Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.

  Frank R. Wolf

  Speaks Out, Obligation, Clear

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