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Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures. -- Eden Ahbez
The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints. -- Matthew Henry
Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures. -- Annie Besant
When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life. -- Bono
Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers. -- Francis Chan
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide. -- Desiderius Erasmus
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations. -- Galileo Galilei
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim. -- John Owen
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. -- Galileo Galilei
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. -- Martin Luther
I want to help people understand how to study the Scriptures with other people, to give them an overview of Scripture and assume that by understanding the Scriptures better, the Holy Spirit will bring to mind the right stories, the right teachings. -- Francis Chan
The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures. -- Ellen G. White
When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from the tone of our culture. -- Francis Chan
The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues. -- John Wycliffe
Daily mediate the Holy Scriptures. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The Scriptures sprang out of God. -- William Tyndale
Pray and mediate on the Scriptures. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Daily mediate on the Holy Scriptures. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Explain the Scriptures by the Scriptures. -- Clement of Alexandria
The Scriptures are words of great encouragement. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The Scriptures are the truth from God. -- Rick Warren
Holy Scriptures; the precious promise of God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Eagerly examine the Scriptures daily for spiritual growth. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home. -- Saint Augustine
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ. -- St. Jerome
You ought to mediate on the Scriptures daily. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Self-education begins with the passion to read the Scriptures. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Mediate on Scriptures. It is refreshing to the soul. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Daily mediation on the Holy Scriptures is a spiritual act. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant. -- Martin Luther
Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left. -- Martin Luther
My unchanging resolution is to read the Holy Scriptures every year. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures. -- Martin Luther
As in paradise, God walks in the Holy Scriptures, seeking man. -- Ambrose
Believe in God.Believe in Jesus Christ.Believe in the Scriptures. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best. -- John Donne
Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent. -- Tony Campolo
May our lives be transformed by the power of the Holy Scriptures. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. -- Isaac Newton
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No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross. -- Martin Luther
You ought to search the Scriptures yourself, to discover the glorious gospel. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
God's will concerning financial prosperity and abundance is clearly revealed in the Scriptures. -- Gloria Copeland
Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures. -- James McHenry
A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all. -- Randall Terry
May the Lord grant you grace to read and understand the Holy Scriptures. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies? -- Philip James Bailey
Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift... -- Lynn Austin
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures. -- Adam Clarke
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. -- Bono
The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives. -- Dwight L. Moody
Take away, O Lord, the veil of my heart while I read the Scriptures. -- Lancelot Andrewes
Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent -- Thomas Campbell
The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth. -- Athanasius of Alexandria
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures. -- John Bunyan
Zen is a special transmission outside the Canonical Scriptures; it does not depend upon texts. -- Robert Linssen
Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on. -- Sydney Carter
I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it. -- Charles Stanley
True Christians delight to read the Scriptures, because they tell them about their beloved Savior. -- J. C. Ryle
The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures. -- George Herbert
My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down. -- Lauren F. Winner
Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God -- Kevin DeYoung
Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures. -- Jelly Roll Morton
It is a basic tenet throughout the Scriptures that God rewards diligence, faithfulness, endurance, and steadfastness. -- Rick Joyner
For how can we adopt those things which we do not find in the holy Scriptures? -- Ambrose
The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice. -- Randall Terry
I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence. -- Richard Baxter
The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance. -- John Knox
The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks. -- Saint John Chrysostom
I still live today with my mom sending me, you know, Hebrew Scriptures or phrases or celebrating. -- Trevor Noah
Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example. -- Richard Furman
Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles. -- Andrew Jackson
We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own. -- Hosea Ballou
The doctrine of the Church should be proven, not announced. Therefore show that the Scriptures teach these things. -- Theodoret
I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures. -- Frances Harper
People not only need a gospel-inspired vision of work, but they need a new vision of the Scriptures. -- David Kim
My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns. -- James G. Watt
If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood. -- Thomas Paine
Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience. -- George Muller
I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love. -- Olivia De Havilland
If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right. -- Matt Chandler
When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read. -- John Philip Kemble
If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them. -- George Muller
It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures. -- Alan Hirsch
God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures. -- John Stott
Scriptures are like packets of light that illuminate our minds and give place to guidance and inspiration from on high. -- Richard G. Scott
Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive. -- Saint Augustine
We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures. -- John Ambrose Fleming
The republican model described in the Hebrew Scriptures reassured pious Americans that republicanism was a political system favored by God. -- Daniel L Dreisbach
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us. -- John Ortberg
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love. -- Bono
I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors. -- John Wycliffe
Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it? -- Ardeth Kapp
Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties. -- Edward Norris Kirk
I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand. -- Martin Luther
As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct. -- Jerry Bridges
The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying. -- John Flavel
Our conscience illuminated by the Holy Spirit as we search the Scriptures will show us in every circumstance the right way. -- Richard Wurmbrand
Holy Spirit, take the Word of truth as we find it in the Scriptures and bring it home to our lives. -- Alistair Begg
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations. -- Galileo Galilei
There is no counsel like God's counsel. No comfort like His comfort. No wisdom more profound than the wisdom of the Scriptures. -- Charles R. Swindoll
We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing. -- Rich Mullins
I'm of the opinion and quite certain that our 'personal histories' with God are meant to be well informed by the Scriptures -- R. Alan Woods 2007
It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation. -- Christiaan Huygens
Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures. -- Pope John Paul II
We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves. -- Beth Moore
Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable. -- H. L. Mencken
The more I read the Scriptures I find an overwhelming case of Scriptures being concerned with the poor, outcast, widow, foreigner and marginalized. -- Sho Baraka
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
The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must read, mediate and affirm the writings of Holy Scriptures, to partake in the divine nature and overcome the struggles of life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed. -- Frederic G. Kenyon
The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace. -- Shane Claiborne
A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others. -- Mark the Evangelist

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