(64 quotes found)
“I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.”
William Jones
“Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? / Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? / So there was a division among the people because of him.”
Bible
“And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.”
“That is the essence of the scriptures, and that is a good omen, by which one comes to chant the Name of the Lord.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.”
“Erasmus said he would like to hear the farmer singing snatches of scripture at his plough and the weaver humming phrases of scripture to the tune of his shuttle.”
James McClelland
“We do not judge the Word of God, but rather the Word of God judges us.”
Leif Ericsson Leo Veness
“Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.”
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.”
Matthew VI. 19
“The way he used examples of our actual lives and compared it to the scripture made it easier for me to understand.”
Jennifer Austin