"Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures."
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"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."
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"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.'"
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"Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left."
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"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."
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"It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment."
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"Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures."
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"Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the Scriptures."
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"Christ, who came meek and mild to save us from pain and suffering, was the One who talked more about hell than any other person in Scripture."
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"How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen."
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"The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart."
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"Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture."
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"Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought."
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"Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church."
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"Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen."
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"A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council."
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"A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams."
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"We should let Scripture interpret us more than we interpret Scripture."
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"The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it."
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"The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life."
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