#scriptures

They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world. ↗

— Francis Atterbury

#any #believe #discoveries #even #evidence

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#any #cannot #condemned #divine #find

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#god #hebrew #nowhere #omnipotent #say

Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on. ↗

— Sydney Carter

#creeds #dancing #faith #go #incredible

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#dreams #many #nothing #scripture #scriptures

Even amongst fierce flames/ The golden lotus can be planted. ↗

— Bhagavid-Gita

#hope #sylvia-plath #scripture

We don’t exhaust the Bible even after reading it hundreds of times. Each time we read it we see it in a new light. That is the greatness of the holy scriptures. They are that way because they were created by holy prophets who experienced the truth. Each time we read these works we elevate ourselves to see a little more. (81) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#sacred-texts #scriptures #study #truth #yoga

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#end #india #integrated #modern #must

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#generally #heavens #hide #like #privilege

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. ↗

— Bono

#christ #made #person #scriptures #simple