Top 1200 Sacred Scripture Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

We are not alone. Even now there are thousands of beings in heaven watching what is going on down here—a ‘great cloud of witnesses,’ the Scripture says. It reminds me that there is so much more to our existence than what we can see. What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.

To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

Partake of this sacred mystery: to take the place of others, giving them his own.

To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious... To discard a portion of scripture is not necessarily to reject the truth, but may be the highest evidence that one can give of his love of truth.

The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.

Let's teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It is already so much more glorious and awesome - and even comforting - than anything offered by any scripture or God concept I know.

It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him.

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.

Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon him.

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.

I'm very eclectic, musically as in other things! But also to frame the hearing and knowing of Scripture within a context of worship, which is what Anglican liturgy does, just seems to me such a very complete and compelling thing.

The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.

No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.

Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.

The Conscious will is represented by the Sacred Woman, Maria, Isis, who crushes the descending serpent's head.

Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey.

Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13, 1524 Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

The FBI holds sacred the rights of individuals to peacefully exercise their First Amendment freedoms.

There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross.

I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it.

We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff.

There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.

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.

Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me.

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with.

Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It is already so much more glorious and awesome - and even comforting - than anything offered by any scripture or God concept I know.

Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou hast said.' The Heavenly Father will not break His Word to His own child.

The church as a whole has strayed quite far from biblical evangelism; that is, sharing the Gospel in the way that Jesus did, the way the Apostle Paul did, and the rest of the disciples and prophets in Scripture.

The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.

I've always loved music and held it as a sacred thing that I can't touch, as I don't really want to deconstruct it or be a musician.

If you think one thing is sacred but you cannot stand the other, if you love the Creator but hate the creation, that is vulgarity.

'Sacred Games' has actually turned out to be the most challenging experience of my acting career.

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

The most sacred thing you can get is time. That's all people want on their death bed; that's what it's all about.

If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.

Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have.

I think that anyone who grew up reading and being taught the Bible, as I did, can't help but have their prose shaped by it later in life. I still have deep, almost primal responses to the language of scripture, and I think that comes through in all my writing.

One way of celebrating the Solstice is to consider it a sacred time of reflection, release, restoration, and renewal.

Most Christians are not convinced of their own faith. I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God. And so they cannot discern between the truth and falsehood.

Therefore, let God inspired Scripture decide between us; and on whichever side be found doctrines in harmony with the Word of God, in favor of that side will be cast the vote of truth

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

I hold onto the Scripture that says, 'Be anxious for nothing, but in all things give thanks.' I'm not saying I don't have problems or that I don't worry, but I try not to be stressed. I manage my anxiety through prayer. Worry shows up on your face, and I don't want that!

The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.

the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.

If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the tradition of two millenia of Catholic thought, denying the teaching of several previous popes, and contradicting the teaching of Scripture.

Aspiring to a depth of awareness of the sacred whole has always been the path to wisdom and grace.

Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change