S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Scripture is something God had ‘let be,’ and so it is at once God’s creation and the creation of the dozens of people and communities and cultures who produced it.”
Source: A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/conservative, Mystical/poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian
“Scripture is the grammar textbook for the language of God, instructing us clearly in the patterns of meaning and the rules by which we are enabled to read everything else.”
Source: The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts by Joe Rigney
“Scripture is the manger in which we find the Christ child.”
“Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.”
“Scripture is the royal scepter by which King Jesus rules his church”
“Scripture is the thing I like to share with people more than anything. My prayer reality is quite kooky. I have this very unique dialogue with the Lord. I utilize my own sort of street vocabulary - nothing slang that would be unacceptable.”
“Scripture is vast, and people can pick and choose what they emphasize, and so for hundreds of years verses that said that you are to welcome the stranger, that with Christ there's neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, we've broken down the dividing wall with the original church, where Christians were first called Christian was the church of Antioch in which for the first time you had Jews, Gentiles of all different ethnicities come together as one people. That's when they were called Christians.”
“Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us.”
“Scripture itself is not systematic; the New Testament shows the greatest variety. God has shown us that he can use any instrument. Balaam's ass, you remember, preached a very effective sermon in the midst of his 'hee-haws.'”
“Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith.”
Source: THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE OPENED UP
“Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.”
“Scripture offers the unique access to the story of redemption and then, in turn, funds tradition, reason and experience, as God's Word is remembered, experienced, and thought about.”
Source: Tracking the Maze: Finding Our Way Through Modern Theology from an Evangelical Perspective
“Scripture often reminds us that it's not enough to have ears - we must use them.”
Source: Just Like Jesus
“Scripture paints men as they really are, hiding none of their blemishes or barbaric ways. The honesty of scripture is one of the reasons I knew that the Bible would be the place to go to learn what a real man should be and do.”
“Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction.”
Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life
“Scripture-pure veracity and scandal-rag content. That conjunction gives it its sizzle. You carry the seed of belief within you already. You recall the time this narrative captures and sense conspiracy. I am here to tell you that it is all true and not at all what you think. You will read with some reluctance and capitulate in the end. The following pages will force you to succumb. I am going to tell you everything.”
Source: Blood's a Rover
“Scripture said that "pride goes before fall". Just let pride go alone. Don't go in its company, else fall pursues both of you!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Scripture says: "Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted." I call on every American family and the family of America to observe a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, honoring the memory of the thousands of victims of these brutal attacks and comforting those who lost loved ones. We will persevere through this national tragedy and personal loss. In time, we will find healing and recovery; and, in the face of all this evil, we remain strong and united, "one Nation under God."”
“Scripture sees hell as self-chosen. . . Hell appears as God's gesture of respect for human choice. All receive what they actually chose. Either to be with God forever, worshipping Him, or without God forever, worshipping themselves.”
Source: Knowing and Doing the Will of God
“Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual is your neighbor. The point is not to destroy concrete neighborhood in a fit of universalism but to expand the local neighborhood and embrace the universal neighborhood.”
Source: The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
“Scripture states that it is the people of darkness who are supposed to be afraid of us, the carriers of light.”
“Scripture suggests that meditating on the Word of God can have an always-on effect of peace and strength in difficult times.”
“Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.”
“Scripture teaches us that we should trust God and not lean on our own wisdom or understanding. To do this, we have to strive to know God intimately, walking by faith and not by sight. This may not be easy at first, but it starts with simple obedience.”
“Scripture tells us that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord. I believe all these signs are evident today.”
Source: The Reason for My Hope: Salvation
“Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.”
“Scripture tells us to "run with endurance the race that is set before us." As we do, may God hold close those who’ve been taken from us too soon.”
“Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.”
Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life
“Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.”
“Scripture would not only solve the individual and family divisions, but it would also solve the ecclesiastical confusion.”
Source: How Should Christians Vote? SAMPLER
“Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Scriptures are as ‘helping problem’. Scriptures only give directions. Scriptures are like a thermometer. Can you grind a thermometer and give it as medicine all day?”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Scriptures are instruments, and to know how to use these instruments is itself a science. One has wandered for infinite lives because of not knowing this science!”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it?”
“Scriptures are like packets of light that illuminate our minds and give place to guidance and inspiration from on high.”
“Scriptures are meant to serve humanity, not humanity to serve scriptures.”
Source: The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
“Scriptures do have a role in society, but only as literature, like any other literature, nothing more.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“Scriptures don't bear holiness, Facts don't bear science. These are mere records of human experience - they can do good only if applied with conscience.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Scriptures exhorted men to shun evil and become good—which seems to be an impossible task—since as soon as we try to add goodness in us, evil too gets added in us without our effort—almost automatically.”
Source: Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin
“Scriptures have been written for one to Know. Nothing needs to be done for that which is to be Known. ‘I cannot do it, I cannot do it’ – is the way people have made everything. ‘Ingesting poison kills’ – you only need to know this knowledge, you don’t have to do anything else. The knowledge that comes into action is true knowledge. What good is knowledge that does not manifest in one’s actions?”
Source: Was immer geschehen ist, ist Gerechtigkeit
“Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Scriptures take you away from spirituality
And ritualism also isn't spirituality
Be real...be spiritual
Get spiritualized... get #Mickeymized!”
“Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift.”
“Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.”
“Scriptures would've done much more good to the world if their advocates didn't insist on them having a supernatural origin, as opposed to a natural one.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed”
“Scriu tuturor celor care, ca şi mine, vor fi într-o nenorocire asemănătoare: staţi bărbăteşte şi nădăjduiţi cu tărie în Dumnezeu, şi vrăjmaşii nu vor rezista, pentru că Domnul i-a biruit pe ei. Prin harul lui Dumnezeu am cunoscut că Domnul poartă de grijă de noi cu milostivire şi nici o rugăciune, nici un gând bun nu se pierd înaintea lui Dumnezeu. Adeseori e ca şi cum Domnul nu ne aude; dar aceasta e numai pentru că suntem mândri şi cerem ceea ce nu ne este de folos. Chinuitor pucru este a recunoaşte mândria în noi înşine, dar Domnul lasă pe cel mândru să se zbată chinuindu-se în neputinţa sa până ce se smereşte. Când sufletul se smereşte, atunci vrăjmaşii sunt biruiţi şi sufletul află mare odihnă în Dumnezeu.”
Source: Între iadul deznădejdii și iadul smereniei
“Scrivendo trovavo breve pace e mi sentivo ridiventare un uomo, uno come tutti, nè martire nè infame nè santo, uno di quelli che si fanno una famiglia, e guardano al futuro anzichè al passato.
- Il sistema periodico”
“Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's amazing how fluid the software makes the process. I genuinely think this is the biggest software advance for writers since the word processor.”
“Scrivere a qualcuno è l’unico modo di aspettarlo senza farsi del male.”
Source: Ocean Sea