Quotes of: Scripture Keyword

On the other hand, inspiration - a criterion for canonization we might expect to play a great role - is not a factor. The Shepherd of Hermas and many writings either claimed inspiration or had it claimed for them, yet were neither universally nor ult...

The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation

Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence. Let Scripture be first and most in your hearts and hands and other books be used as subservient to it. While reading ask yourself: 1. Could I spend th...

Richard Baxter

I don't care what they say, we are only to love those who deserve our love and love them to the degree that they deserve it! You see, we are not God. Only God can love people undeserving without spoiling them. Us, on the other hand, can love someone ...

C. JoyBell C.

Though you recite much scripture, If you are unaware and do not act according You are like a cowherd counting others' cattle, Not a sharer in the wanderer's life.

The Dhammapada

How can a man know how to live rightly on the face of earth? By daily reading and meditation on the Holy Scriptures and obedience to what is written.

Beautiful Quotes

Abide not with dualism, Carefully avoid pursuing it; As soon as you have right and wrong, Confusion ensues, and Mind is lost. (172)

Buddhist Scriptures

Krishna taught in the Bhadavad Gita: ‘karmanyeva-adhikaraste ma phalesu kadachana’, which means, ‘Be active, never be inactive, and don’t react to the outcome of the work.

Buddhist Scriptures

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Wilson Mizner

The emphasis in Scripture is not the amount we give, but the attitude with which we give.

Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms

How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us!

Spiritual Depression

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth.

The Secret Scripture

Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.

The Secret Scripture

There are some sufferings that we seem as a creature to forget, or we would never survive as a creature among all the other creatures.

The Secret Scripture

The only trouble was that the scripture master, Mr. Ebenzar, was a fanatic.

Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher

We must read, mediate and affirm the writings of Holy Scriptures, to partake in the divine nature and overcome the struggles of life.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.

Real Christianity

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.

Moon Called

There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows yet, because this gave me insight. Let's go test that prediction,' and have the prediction be correct.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, which means the "Way of the Eternal," is the ancient scripture of Eckankar, the science of Soul Travel and total consciousness. Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad Book One

Paul Twitchell

I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose.

Santosh Kalwar