#scriptures

I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself. ↗

— Jim Caviezel

#go #god #him #i #life

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

#apostles #christ #church #counsel #delivered

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#author #eminent #end #error #god

Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live. ↗

— Herman Wouk

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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

#day #desire #direct #fast #feel

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

— Eden Ahbez

#heaven #now #older #scriptures #temples

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#believe #building #captured #commandment #could