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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

William Shakespeare

Devil Purpose His Cite

I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

Love New Earth Forever

There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.

Good Heart Think Medicine

I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things... he's not a small God; this God is incredible.

Life Thankful Dreams God

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts.

Morning Day God Thoughts

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

Believe Gay Sin I Believe

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

Life Men God Women

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology - absolutely.

Details Sincere About Disagree

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

Me World Reading Saying

I asked long ago,'What must I do to be saved?' The Scripture answered, 'Keep the commandments, believe, hope, love.' I was early warned against laying, as the Papists do, too much stress on outward works, or on a faith without works, which as it does not include, so it will never lead to true hope or charity.

Love Hope Faith Stress

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Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

Christopher Hitchens

Soul Mind Literature Metaphor

When I think about where most of Scripture points me, it is toward defending the poor, and the immigrant, and the stranger, and the prisoner, and the outcast, and those who are left behind by the way society works.

Me Society Think Way

I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon that which is found in the scriptures. Rather, I prefer to dwell with the source, tasting of the unadulterated waters of the fountain of truth - the word of God as he gave it and as it has been recorded in the books we accept as scripture.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Myself God Truth Long

I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' Matthew 25:40.

Elizabeth Warren

Me School Church Sunday

President Benson's mighty influence is felt in many ways. His timely and inspired counsel to read the precious Book of Mormon brought an added appreciation of this sacred scripture to all who followed his direction.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Appreciation Book Influence Direction

During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I literally spent hours each day reading God's word, meditating on scripture and praying. I intentionally spent a significant amount of time being still before God.

Day God Time Struggle

It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.

Faith Man Mind Perfection

There are several things to be learned about money from Scripture, and the concepts of generosity and giving are in there.

Money Generosity Giving Things

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

Conflict Go Then Heresy

I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness.

Change Bible Believe School

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

Nothing Achieve Headache About

One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.

Death Hope God Shadow

Those who love desire to share with the beloved. They want to be one with the beloved, and Sacred Scripture shows us the great love story of God for his people which culminated in Jesus Christ.

Pope Benedict XVI

Love God People Great

It is important to learn to understand in a historical text, a text from the past, the living Word of God, that is, to enter into prayer and thus read Sacred Scripture as a conversation with God.

Pope Benedict XVI

God Prayer Past Understand

All Scripture is equally inspired, but not all Scripture is equally applicable or relevant to every stage of life.

Life Stage Inspired Every

Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.

You Bible People Cheating

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