Scripture Quotes - Page 37

• To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

  Sebastian Franck

  Self, Letters, Spirit

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• Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the present reality, the present experience with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully know the truth beyond words.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Buddhist, Believe, Buddhism

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• Biblical counseling is listening to a person long enough until you hear a violation of scripture.

  Henry R Brandt

  Life, Biblical, Long

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• The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

  Bodhidharma

  Sublime, Use, Way

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.29, Macmillan

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• The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. This is surely what Jesus means when he talks about the one who has being given more and those who have not losing what little they have.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Jesus, Powerful

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• In scripture God brings the animals to the human for naming. In that simple act the human is brought to recognize the particular personality and worth of each living creature. Too bad we forget so often.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Animal, Simple, Personality

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• Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ. Biologically, in great forest communities, they help sustain life on our planet, giving off oxygen, anchoring soil, keeping stream and rivers clear, and providing habitation for thousands of species. How can religious persons not care about the widespread destruction of these creatures of God? We need to love them as our very selves, as neighbors in earth's community of life.

  Elizabeth A. Johnson

  Christian, Religious, Unique

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• Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.

  Johannes Scotus Eriugena

  Shoes, Two, Environmental

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• I engaged - started engaging in yoga as a physical practice, but very quickly found out there was something broader to it, and that it was actually helpful for my pain, and started to get into meditation, started to study the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita and a lot of the scriptures associated with yoga, the Yoga Sutras, and very quickly came to this conclusion that this had a huge impact on my ability to lead, but, more importantly, the ability to control my sympathetic nervous system, which had a direct tie to the pain in my arm.

  Mark T Bertolini

  Pain, Yoga, Practice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Son, Men, Illustration

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.

  John Milton

  Differences, Duty, Tolerate

  John Milton (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.444

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• What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, Sky, Orbs

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.489

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• Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Prayer, Giving

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jun 03, 2015

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• But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

  John Calvin

  Wish, Acting, Prove

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.13, Oxford University Press

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• The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing His apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God's plan for His Church.

  Pope Paul VI

  Teaching, Men, Practice

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• Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us to respond to the needs of the poor. And yet, I find that when Christians talked about values in this last election that was not on the agenda, that was not a concern. If you were to get the voter guide of the Christian Coalition, that does not rate. They talk more about tax cuts for people who are wealthy than they do about helping poor people who are in desperate straits.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Jesus, Cutting

  "Meet Evangelist Tony Campolo" by John Oliver Mason, progressive.org. August 5, 2005.

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• Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.

  St. Jerome

  Order, Baptism, Trying

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.306, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example.

  Richard Furman

  Crazy, Stupid, Scary

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• Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

  St. Jerome

  Inquiry, Christianity, Sole

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• They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.

  Matthew Henry

  Praying, Wells

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• I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of God's word becomes corrupt. Because of this we can see what kind of people they become in the universities and what they are like now.

  Martin Luther

  Children, People, Doe

  Martin Luther (1970). “Three Treatises”, p.100, Fortress Press

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• The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests, and stand in the front line against heretics, the devil, and all the world. But where do you find that?

  Martin Luther

  Men, Devil, Experts

  Martin Luther (1970). “Three Treatises”, p.100, Fortress Press

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• On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. (Matthew 2:11) [This] adoration, too, was not the same as the worship of God. In my opinion they did not yet recognize him as God, but they acted in keeping with the custom mentioned in Scripture, according to which Kings and important people were worshiped; this did not mean more than falling down before them at their feet and honoring them.

  Martin Luther

  Mother, Kings, Children

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• In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our defense. In this sense God is the rock of his people, and false Gods are called the rock of those that trust in them. In the same sense the Gods of the King who shall do according to his will are called Mahuzzims, munitions, fortresses, protectors, guardians, or defenders.

  Isaac Newton

  Kings, Idols, Rocks

  Isaac Newton “Observations”, Lulu.com

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• From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought to be an imitation of the law of Moses concerning leprosy, wherein the leprous man was commanded to be kept out of the camp of Israel for a certain time, after which time being judged by the priest to be clean, he was admitted into the camp after a solemn washing. And this may therefore be a type of the washing in baptism, wherein such men as are cleansed of the leprosy of Sin by Faith, are received into the church with the solemnity of baptism.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Israel, Law

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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