Clayton M. Christensen

In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

American Author

Joel Osteen

I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things... he's not a small God; this God is incredible.

American Clergyman

Thomas Merton

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

Henry B. Eyring

The scriptures were one of the ways God spoke to me - even when I was a child - about my needs, my situation, and my life. They still are. Since our needs change over a lifetime, God has different things to tell us at different times.

American Leader

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows yet, because this gave me insight. Let's go test that prediction,' and have the prediction be correct.

American Scientist

Billy Graham

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

Amish Tripathi

Mythology and history are my passion. I grew up in a religious family and learnt about our scriptures and philosophies. It's the language I'm comfortable with.

Indian Author

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.

American Businessman

Deborah Norville

The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.

American Journalist

Learned Hand

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.

American Judge

Use 'scripture' to refer to texts in a respectful, religious context, signaling reverence.

Religious Respect

Be specific about which religion's scripture is being mentioned to avoid confusion.

Specificity Matters

'Scripture' is not used for any religious book; it refers to central, authoritative texts only.

Not Just Any Book

In a literary context, 'scripture' can be used metaphorically to express high value or beauty in writing.

Metaphoric Use

'Scripture' outside religion usually doesn't mean sacred, just a piece of great writing.

Not Always Religious

Using 'scripture' in art or literature elevates the subject, hinting at profound meaning.

Artistic Elevation

 you do foster mother asked me to go away to think about love and what it is and to read the scriptures and to come back tomorrow and give my most honest and truthful answer so this was an opportunity if they were asking me whether I love them on then I mustn't love them which led me to the miracle of thought that I thought

A child of the state -...

 scriptures and so forth it's sometimes it gets complicated right I mean you you I kind of have to ask you this because I'll get killed up afterwards for not asking here you got involved in this fad gosh a couple decades ago about Salman Rushdie and you were reported as having supporting the fatwa against him I mean

A message of peace, hope...

 of symbolism, reverence, and deep meanings tied to the literature of its history. The many sacred scriptures make up the Hebrew bible, or Tanakh, and hundreds of written discussions and interpretations are contained in an expansive compendium of deeper meanings, called the Talmud.

The five major world...

 all of the trees on the sacred ground of the churchyard to remind people that they are protecting not only the nave and the Holy Scriptures and the pews and the pulpit but also the fact that the trees and the biota in their own churchyards are deserving of mindfulness

Nalini Nadkarni: For the...

 because the various religious leaders were using their scriptures as law books, and they couldn't find anything in them prohibiting making life, so it must be OK. The only ultimate concerns were biological warfare aspects of this,

Craig Venter: A voyage...

 Both groups claim to base their ideology on their holy book. But when you look at them, they're not motivated by what they read in their holy book. It's their brutality that makes them read these things into the scripture.

What it's like to be a...

 And the rabbis and the early fathers of the church who said that any interpretation of scripture that bred hatred and disdain was illegitimate. And we need to revive that spirit. And it's not just going to happen

Karen Armstrong: Let's...

 She wasn't too much older than me and my middle school friends. She wanted to make sure that we understood scripture and was able to connect it to this real world question of what you will be when you grow up.

Khadijah Tribble: How...

 The misrepresentation and misuse and manipulation of religious scripture has influenced our social and cultural norms, our laws, our daily lives, to a point where we sometimes don't recognize it.

What Islam really says...

 making merit is a way of earning celestial favor for doing a good deed it might be giving arms to a monk chanting Buddhist scripture or releasing