Holy Writ Quotes

#1. Atticus "What's this religion going to be called?"
Oberon "Poochism"
A:"and the name of this holy writ I will be typing for you?"
O:"The dead flea scrolls: A Sirius Prophecy.

Kevin Hearne

#2. If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness.

Martin Luther

#3. The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

Marilynne Robinson

#4. Whenever she came across lines she liked, she'd mark them in pencil and commit them to memory as if they were Holy Writ.

Haruki Murakami

#5. And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

William Shakespeare

#6. I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.

Galileo Galilei

#7. Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

William Shakespeare

#8. I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your own theory. The fact that you end up literally burning twenty-two out of twenty-five books is beside the point.

Tom Peters

#9. When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.

Thomas Ken

#10. So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

William Shakespeare

#11. The Biblical manuscripts are quite unequivocally clear on the issue of marriage and its definition. The law of the land may change, however the Holy Writ shall not."


~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#12. It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity.

William Coperthwaite

#13. The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ.

Eric Hoffer

#14. I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

Jacob K. Javits

#15. No believing Christian can be coerced beyond Holy Writ

Martin Luther

#16. Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.

Thomas Goodwin

#17. That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.

Winifred Mary Letts

#18. In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride - it is always considered a sin. Therefore, no matter how the world uses the term, we must understand how God uses the term so we can understand the language of holy writ and profit thereby.

Ezra Taft Benson

#19. While the seeming independence of the federal judiciary has played a vital part in making its actions virtual Holy Writ for the bulk of the people, it is also and ever true that the judiciary is part and parcel of the government apparatus and appointed by the executive and legislative branches.

Murray Rothbard

#20. I always carry the book of Holy Writ ... and something to read ...

Elizabeth Peters

#21. How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'

Julian Huxley

#22. Tell me. Tell me why you think you're leaving me again. Because you're not, you know. You're not leaving without me

Liz Reinhardt

#23. Tomes / Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#24. They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much

Stephen King

#25. This is an empirical claim: Look closely enough at your own mind in the present moment, and you will discover that the self is an illusion.

Sam Harris

#26. I don't yhink, I'm in love. But I know I'm in love with you, Felice ...

Robin Wijaya

#27. It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.

Melina Marchetta

#28. Some say the word 'pop' is a derogatory word to say 'not important' - I do not accept that. If the word 'classic' is the word to say 'boring,' I do not accept. There is good and bad music.

Luciano Pavarotti

#29. What use was time to those who'd soon achieve Digital Immortality?

Clyde DeSouza