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1 " I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. "
― Martin Luther
2 " If you wish to know the truth, read the holy Scriptures. "
3 " Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures help us to build a strong trust in the truth of God. "
4 " Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence. Let Scripture be first and most in your hearts and hands and other books be used as subservient to it. While reading ask yourself: 1. Could I spend this time no better? 2. Are there better books that would edify me more? 3. Are the lovers of such a book as this the greatest lovers of the Book of God and of a holy life? 4. Does this book increase my love to the Word of God, kill my sin, and prepare me for the life to come? " The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails—given by one Shepherd. Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body." Ecclesiastes 12:11-12 "
5 " Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which the story of Jesus and the Christian makes its rounds century after century, the large and easy interior rhythms of a year that moves from birth, life, death, resurrection, on to spirit, obedience, faith, and blessing. Without liturgy we lose the rhythms and end up tangled in the jerky, ill-timed, and insensitive interruptions of public-relations campaigns, school openings and closings, sales days, tax deadlines, inventory and elections. Advent is buried under 'shopping days before Christmas.' The joyful disciplines of Lent are exchanged for the anxious penitentials of filling out income tax forms. Liturgy keeps us in touch with the story as it defines and shapes our beginnings and ends our living and dying, our rebirths and blessing in this Holy Spirit, text-formed community visible and invisible.When Holy Scripture is embraced liturgically, we become aware that a lot is going on all at once, a lot of different people are doing a lot of different things. The community is on its feet, at work for God, listening and responding to the Holy Scriptures. The holy community, in the process of being formed by the Holy Scriptures, is watching, listening to God's revelation taking shape before an din them as they follow Jesus, each person playing his or her part in the Spirit. "
― Eugene H. Peterson , Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading (Spiritual Theology #2)
6 " The highest knowledge, knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. "
― Lailah Gifty Akita , Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1)
7 " Never stop studying the Holy Scriptures . "
8 " My unchanging resolution is to read the Holy Scriptures every year. "
― Lailah Gifty Akita ,
9 " If you read the Holy Scriptures, you shall find strength for soul. "
10 " Renew your mind daily by reading the Holy Scriptures. "
― Lailah Gifty Akita
11 " Meditation on the Holy Scriptures is sweet to the soul. "
12 " Daily mediation on the Holy Scriptures is a spiritual act. "
13 " Meditation on the holy Scriptures , free us from mental slavery. "
14 " Language is not primarily informational but revelatory. The Holy Scriptures give witness to a living voice sounding variously as Father, Son and Spirit, addressing us personally and involving us personally as participants. This text is not words to be studies in the quiet preserves of a library, but a voice to be believed and loved and adored in workplace and playground, on the streets and in the kitchen. Receptivity is required. "
15 " I desperate desire to read the Holy Scriptures is spirituality of the soul. "
16 " How can a man know how to live rightly on the face of earth? By daily reading and meditation on the Holy Scriptures and obedience to what is written. "
17 " Pray more often and read and obey The Holy Scriptures in The Holy Bible. "
― Errol Anthony Smythe.
18 " Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered. "
― John Calvin , Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
19 " Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth. "