#scripture

The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven…The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book. ↗

— Dan Brown

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Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. ↗

— Anonymous

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Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. ↗

— Anonymous

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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. ↗

— Rich Mullins

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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book. ↗

— Anatole France

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The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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Lady Wisdom will be your close friend; and Brother Knowledge will be your pleasant companion. ↗

— Anonymous

#knowledge #proverbs #scripture #wisdom #scripture

Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#edge #god #line #ruler #scripture

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

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