Quotes About Sacred Scripture

#1. 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

#2. Religion - the wishful thinking of an ape that talks! You know what I think?" he asked rhetorically, trying to distract himself from yet another death. "Random shit happens, and we turn it into stories and call it sacred scripture -

Mary Doria Russell

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Martin Luther

#8. 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

#9. Divine election is a theme mentioned often in sacred Scripture. God has chosen to reveal this truth for the spiritual nurture and growth of the people of God.

John Samson

#10. Those who devote themselves to the study of Sacred Scripture should always remember that the various hermeneutical approaches have their own philosophical underpinnings, which need to be carefully evaluated before they are applied to the sacred texts.

Pope John Paul II

#11. 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

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

Emanuel Swedenborg

#13. All of that happened while I was reading, just reading. I was being guided by the Spirit toward an integral sense of Scripture based on the consensus of the early Christian interpreters of sacred Scripture.

Thomas C. Oden

#14. I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough ... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.

James Nesbitt

#15. The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.

Daniel Dennett

#16. The whole point of society is to be less unforgiving than nature.

Arthur D. Hlavaty

#17. 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

#18. The sacred Scriptures grow with the one who reads them.

Gregory The Great

#19. Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Ambrose Bierce

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

John Wycliffe

#21. Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

St. Jerome

#22. He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made me thrive, and valuing that, I could do nothing that would endanger it.

Susan Vreeland

#23. Well, I mean, taking time for your art is taking time for yourself, isn't it?

Lana Del Rey

#24. I'm a video game buff.

Shawn Ashmore

#25. Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.

Lillie Langtry

#26. Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

Roger Ebert

#27. I would hate to be on a plane every day.

Tatjana Patitz

#28. Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about.

George W. Bush

#29. By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the Church alone is the entrance to salvation: She alone, by herself, and under the protection and guidance of the Holy Spirit, is the source of truth.

Pope Pius XII

#30. Finally, Sacred Tradition is also necessary because some truths of the faith are expressed in a completely definite form in Scripture, while others are not entirely clear and precise and therefore demand confirmation by the Sacred Apostolic Tradition.

Michael Pomazansky

#31. 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

#32. I do not need the Lord to heal me. What I need is the faith to trust him no matter what happens. In this, I have begun to realize that great faith is borne in the great unknowns of life.

Kasey Van Norman

#33. Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#34. The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are.

Tina Howe

#35. Everybody's got their own situation and their own needs.

Jon McGregor