Dennis: Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.
Sir Bedevere: Well, now, uh, Launcelot, Galahad, and I, wait until nightfall, and then leap out of the rabbit, taking the French by surprise - not only by surprise, but totally unarmed!
Dennis: Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.
Minstrel: [singing] He is packing it in and packing it up And sneaking away and buggering off And chickening out and pissing off home, Yes, bravely he is throwing in the sponge.
Sir Robin: Would it help to confuse it if we run away more? King Arthur: Oh shut up and go and change your armour.
If you will have patience in difficulties you know the Holy Spirit is within you, if you will also have the strength to be thankful in troubles than is when the Holy Spirit shines through you.
Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit? [Lutheran theologian Abraham Calovius illustrating his objection to heliocentrism due to the Bible's support of geocentrism]
Mediation on the scriptures transforms our lives.
In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning.
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on.
When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.
Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason.
I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.
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