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«More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.»
«Nobody ever outgrows scripture; the Book widens and deepens with our years»
«Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
Sin
| Keywords:
corruption, depravities, depravity, diffuse, diffused, diffuses, diffusing, hereditary, obnoxious, original sin, producing, rendering, scripture, wrath
«Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.»
«LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
antique, antiques, artistic, brute, diligence, folds, illustration, illustrations, inertia, justly, Laocoon, piece of work, representing, scripture, serpents, that name, The old man
«Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.»
«The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn»
«One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
absurdities, credit, credulity, fanaticism, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, loaded, obtained, priestcraft, scripture, vulgar
«The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. [Merchant Of Venice]»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
cheek, Holy Scripture, Holy Scriptures, merchant, producing, scripture, site, sites, smiling, Venice, villain, witness
«The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Evil,
Religion
| Keywords:
cite, cited, citing, scripture
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