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Saint Augustine … insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author m...

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There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition f...

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Karl BarthChurch Dogmatics 1.2: The Doctrine of the Word of God

There is no such thing as a special biblical hermeneutics. But we have to learn that hermeneutics wh...

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Karl BarthChurch Dogmatics 1.2: The Doctrine of the Word of God

Wherever he found his speech growing too modern -- which was about every sentence or two -- he ladle...

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The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flou...

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There is talk of a new astrologer [Nicolaus Copernicus] who wants to prove that the earth moves and ...

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I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in expl...

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If, therefore, those called to office and leadership roles in the church remain content merely to or...

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We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping...

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N.T. WrightAfter You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop th...

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N.T. WrightSimply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should...

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N.T. WrightThe Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture

Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualis...

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N.T. WrightThe Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture

One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is ...

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We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are j...

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We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because ...

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[T]here is no greater strengthener of sin, and destroyer of the soul, than Scripture misapplied (317...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

The Bible is the Word of God: supernatural in origin, eternal in duration, inexpressible in valor, i...

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The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconfor...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

I'd be willing to bet that the notion of the end of time is more common today in the secular world t...

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A glory gilds the sacred page Majestic like the sun It gives a light to every age It gives but b...

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Why is it so hard to get people to study the Scriptures? Common sense tells us what revelation comma...

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The holy word is story, and story is the holy word.

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Yann MartelThe High Mountains of Portugal

The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple...

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AberjhaniElemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when ...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah,...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians...

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Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matt...

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He who, while unacquainted with these writings, nevertheless knows by the natural light that there i...

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Scripture has the remedy for sinfulness.

We are told in Scripture that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord.I believe t...

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Scripture has the remedy for sinfulness.

We are told in Scripture that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord.I believe t...

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Scripture has the remedy for sinfulness.

We are told in Scripture that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord.I believe t...

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Scripture has the remedy for sinfulness.

We are told in Scripture that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord.I believe t...

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Scripture has the remedy for sinfulness.

We are told in Scripture that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord.I believe t...

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Scripture has the remedy for sinfulness.

We are told in Scripture that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord.I believe t...

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Scripture has the remedy for sinfulness.

We are told in Scripture that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord.I believe t...

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Scripture has the remedy for sinfulness.

We are told in Scripture that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord.I believe t...

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The Order of the Divine mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. What should a man do but try...

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C. S. LewisReflections on the Psalms

Nature is only the image, the symbol; but it is the symbol Scripture invites me to use. We are summo...

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C. S. LewisThe Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

But if the Bible is not everywhere literally true, which parts are divinely inspired and which are m...

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There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human sou...

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it means what it say," Ethel said. "It means that a Hebrew may not enslave a Hebrew. But the sons of...

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Colson WhiteheadThe Underground Railroad

Renew your mind by washing it with truth: God's Word.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. T...

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Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology h...

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David BrewsterMore Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian

Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bi...

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Teaching is no joke, sonny! ... Comforting truths, they call it! Truth is meant to save you first, a...

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Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the worl...

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Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the worl...

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Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the worl...

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Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the worl...

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Hell, hell fire, the damnation of hell, eternal damnation, the resurrection of the damnation, everla...

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We live in a day of abounding vagueness and indistinctness on doctrinal subjects in religion. Now, i...

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Christ is to the souls of men what the sun is to the world. He is the center and source of all spiri...

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For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to b...

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The difference between us and the papists is that they do not think that the church can be 'the pill...

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[They] pervert the course of nature [by saying] the sun does not move and that it is the earth that ...

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We search the world for truth we cull The good the pure the beautiful From all old flower fields...

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Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.

Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.

Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.

Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.

Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and pl...

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Take away all the moral beauty and sweetness in the Word, and the Bible is left wholly a dead letter...

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In every sound convert the judgement is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subsc...

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