"Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant."
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"Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures."
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"We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person."
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"Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus."
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"Scripture tells us that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord. I believe all these signs are evident today."
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"The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches."
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"All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless...For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because "free-will" can do nothing."
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"The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions."
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"You can not understand "Scripture" without seeing through the eyes of the Spiritual Master or Advanced Devotees."
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"Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then you will find time to read to them the scriptures."
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"The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa."
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"If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood."
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"Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture."
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"[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood."
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"I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell."
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"Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too."
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"It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions."
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"Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood."
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"When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom."
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"Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have."
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