Sacred Scripture Quotes:

When I eat alone I feel like a seminarian being punished. I tried it for one week and I was not comfortable. Then I searched through Sacred Scripture for something saying I had to eat alone. I found nothing, so I gave it up and it's much better now.

- Pope John XXIII

topic: Sacred Scripture, Week, Found

Sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

- Martin Luther

topic: Scary, Sacred Scripture, Earth, Firmament, Upstart

The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.112, Courier Corporation

topic: Bible, Sacred Scripture, Morality, Testament

Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.

- Emanuel Swedenborg

topic: Mirrors, Different, Sacred Scripture

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

- Cat Stevens

source: "Faith and the future" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2001.

topic: Sacred Scripture, Elements, Extremist, Of Context

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

- St. Jerome

topic: Bible, Ignorance, Scripture, Reading The Scriptures, Sacred Scripture

All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.

- Teresa of Avila

topic: Faith, Inspiration, Men, Sacred Scripture

The diligent reading of Sacred Scripture accompanied by prayer brings about that intimate dialogue in which the person reading hears God who is speaking, and in praying, responds to him with trusting openness of heart. If it is effectively promoted, this practice will bring to the Church-I am convinced of it-a new spiritual springtime.

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: Spiritual, Prayer, Reading, Diligent, Sacred Scripture

Sacred Scripture, since it has no science above itself, can dispute with one who denies its principles only if the opponent admits some at least of the truths obtained through divine revelation; thus we can argue with heretics from texts in Holy Writ, and against those who deny one article of faith we can argue from another. If our opponent believes nothing of divine revelation, there is no longer any means of proving the articles of faith by reasoning, but only of answering his objections - if he has any - against faith.

- Thomas Aquinas

topic: Christian, Believe, Mean, Divine Revelation, Sacred Scripture

The first priority will consist in restoring a sense of the acceptance of life as a gift from God. According to both Sacred Scripture and the wisest traditions of your continent, the arrival of a child is always a gift, a blessing from God. Today it is high time to place greater emphasis on this: every human being, every tiny human person, however weak, is created 'in the image and likeness of God' (Gen 1:27)

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: Children, Acceptance, Blessing, Arrivals, God Blessing

All Sacred Scriptures is but one book, and that one book is Christ, because all divine Scripture speaks of Christ, and all divine Scripture is fulfilled in Christ.

- Hugh of Saint Victor

topic: Bible, Christian, Book, Sacred Scripture

We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

- Saint Basil

topic: Growing Up, Evil, Sacred, Sacred Scripture

I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.

- John Wycliffe

topic: Doctors, Sacred, Scripture, Sacred Scripture

I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept that we humans can choose to accept Christ only because we need Him as Saviour and that we have the right to postpone our obedience to Him as Lord as long as we want to... The truth is that salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred scripture... Apart from obedience, there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Christian, Self, Circles, Evangelical, Sacred Scripture

There is a growing threat to the environment, to the vegetation, animals, water and air. Sacred Scripture hands us the image of Cain who rejects his responsibility: 'Am I my brother's keeper?' The Bible shows the human person as his brother's keeper and the guardian of creation which has been entrusted to him.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Brother, Responsibility, Animal, Vegetation, Sacred Scripture

It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable response to human frailty and human differences. This goes against every human instinct, but organized religion has reorganized human thoughts. Some humans have even been turned against their own instinct for survival. And so people go around maiming and killing each other, because they've been told quite directly that this is what God does to them--and what God wants them to do to each other.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Differences, People, Survival, Sacred Scripture, Killing Each Other

When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.

- John Philip Kemble

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p.40), 1895.

topic: Bible, Book, Thinking, Sacred Scripture

Sacred scripture wishes simply to declare that the world was created by God, and in order to teach this truth it expressed itself in terms of the cosmology in use at the time of the writer. Any other teaching about the origin and makeup of the universe is so alien to the intentions of the Bible, which does not wish to teach how heaven was made but how one goes to heaven.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Teaching, Makeup, Order, Sacred Scripture

In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.

- Thomas Aquinas

topic: Teaching, Two, Sacred, Derision, Sacred Scripture

An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in sacred scripture. It is the wreckage of the planet by an exuberantly plentiful and ingenious humanity.

- E. O. Wilson

topic: War, Humanity, Sacred, Ingenious, Plentiful

So we see, brethren and sisters that the words of Christ can be a personal Liahona for each of us, showing us the way. Let us now be slothful because of the easiness of the way. Let us in faith take the words of Christ into our minds and into our hearts as they are recorded in sacred scripture and as they are uttered by living prophets, seers, and revelators. Let us with faith and diligence feast upon the words of Christ, for the words of Christ will be our spiritual Liahona telling us all things what we should do.

- W. Rolfe Kerr

topic: Spiritual, Heart, Mind, Easiness, Sacred Scripture

The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing His apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God's plan for His Church.

- Pope Paul VI

topic: Teaching, Men, Practice, Priesthood, Sacred Scripture

Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the present reality, the present experience with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully know the truth beyond words.

- Ajahn Sumedho

topic: Buddhist, Believe, Reality, Sacred Scripture

As far as sacred Scripture is concerned, however much froward men try to gnaw at it, nevertheless it clearly is crammed with thoughts that could not be humanly conceived. Let each of the prophets be looked into: none will be found who does not far exceed human measure. Consequently, those for whom prophetic doctrine is tasteless ought to be thought of as lacking taste buds.

- John Calvin

source: John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.362, Oxford University Press

topic: Men, Trying, Sacred, Taste Buds, Sacred Scripture

Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized sacred Scripture. Witches are today being burned in South Africa.... The worldwide TM [Transcendental Meditation] organization has an estimated valuation of $3 billion. For a fee, they promise to make you invisible, to enable you to fly.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Atheist, War, Japan, World War I, Sacred Scripture

The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our nation, on the character of God, on the great moral Governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free Institutions. From no source has this author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible, I make no apology.

- William Holmes McGuffey

topic: Bible, God, Christian, Character Of God, Sacred Scripture

[We need not think] that there is any Contradiction, when Philosophy teaches that to be done by Nature; which Religion, and the Sacred Scriptures, teach us to be done by God: no more, than to say, That the balance of a Watch is moved by the next Wheel, is to deny that Wheel, and the rest, to be moved by the Spring; and that both the Spring, and all the other Parts, are caused to move together by the Maker of them. So God may be truly the Cause of This Effect, although a Thousand other Causes should be supposed to intervene: For all Nature is as one Great Engine, made by, and held in His Hand.

- Nehemiah Grew

source: Nehemiah Grew (1965). “The Anatomy of Plants: With An Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants and Several Other Lectures Read Before the Royal Society”

topic: God, Philosophy, Spring, Sacred Scripture

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

- William of Ockham

topic: Self, Sacred, Scripture, Sacred Scripture, Occam's Razor

From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology.

- William Holmes McGuffey

topic: Apology, Sacred, Scripture, Sacred Scripture

People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon....This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13]that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

- Martin Luther

topic: Moon, People, Heaven, Firmament, Sacred Scripture

Those who would be employed in propagating the Gospel should be familiar with the doctrines he is to combat and the doctrines he is to teach, and acquire a complete knowledge both of the Sacred Scriptures and of these philosophical and mythological dogmas which form the souls of the Buddhist and Hindu Systems.

- William Carey

topic: Sacred Scripture

Sacred scripture is of course the basic authority for everything; yet I sometimes run across ancient sayings or pagan writings - even the poets - so purely and reverently and admirably expressed that I can't help believing the author's hearts were moved by some divine power. And perhaps the spirit of Christ is more widespread than we understand, and the company of the saints includes many not on our calendar.

- Desiderius Erasmus

source: Desiderius Erasmus (1965). “The Colloquies of Erasmus”, Chicago, 1965- .

topic: Running, Believe, Writing, Sacred Scripture

In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow sacred Scripture, properly interpreted, of course. God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellects. It seemed that direct communication with God was something exclusively for the ancients and uncivilized, while educated Westerner's access to God was mediated and controlled by the intelligentsia. Nobody wanted God in a box, just in a book.

- William P. Young

topic: Book, Communication, Voice, Direct Communication, Communication With God

And let them remember that prayer should accompany the reading of Sacred Scripture, so that God and man may talk together; for "we speak to Him when we pray; we hear Him when we read the divine saying."

- Ambrose

topic: Prayer, Reading, Men, Sacred Scripture