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"Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen."
"A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it"
"The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy."
"Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says."
"No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross."
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"We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing."
"Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken."
"Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth."
"But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known."
"The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism."
"The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason."
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations."
"Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide."
"We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy."
"Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide."
"The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard."
"When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life."
"The emphasis in Scripture is not the amount we give, but the attitude with which we give."
"The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth."
"America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture."
"Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures."
"Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion."
"I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: 'Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.'"
"Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left."
"Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of."
