#scripture

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer. ↗

— George Muller

#enjoy #enjoyment #give #gone #make

A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#deny #doctrine #ever #false #full

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight. ↗

— Venerable Bede

#been #church #daily #delight #devoted

I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#believe #bible #change #church #evangelical

The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#make #saints #scriptures #us #were

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#appear #cannot #consideration #done #far

The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification. ↗

— William Ames

#church #continual #direction #god #means

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. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#anytime #bible #come #find #first

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#believe #gay #i #i believe #i believe the

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue. ↗

— William Tyndale

#before #establish #except #eyes #how