"If you keep the law of God, you are not described in Scripture as a pinched legalist, but rather as happy (Prov. 29:18)."
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"Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have denounced it if he had known of it."
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"All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity."
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"It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense."
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"Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent."
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"Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to."
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"All of Scripture is for us but not all of Scripture is to us."
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"You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91."
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"God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner."
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"Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures."
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"I could never lead a Bible study; I don't know Scripture that well."
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"Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up."
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"I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas."
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"Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best."
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"We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those whom it was his pleasure one day to admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom to destruction. We maintain that this counsel, as regards the elect, is founded on his free mercy, without any respect to human worth, while those whom he dooms to destruction are excluded from access to life by a just and blameless, but at the same time incomprehensible judgment"
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"First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our Conqueror and Overlord."
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"Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered."
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"I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture."
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"We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning."
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"You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases."
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