#scriptures

People who study the scriptures get a dimension to their life that nobody else gets and that can't be gained in any way except by studying the scriptures. There's an increase in faith and a desire to do what's right and a feeling of inspiration and understanding that comes to people who study the gospel - and who ponder the principles, that can't come in any other way. ↗

— Bruce R. McConkie

#faith

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

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

— Matthew Henry

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In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions. ↗

— Elias Hicks

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That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation. ↗

— Elias Hicks

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Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures. ↗

— Eden Ahbez

#heaven #now #older #scriptures #temples

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context. ↗

— Cat Stevens

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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