Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

C. S. Lewis

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

Benjamin Rush

Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them...

Bible Bible

For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

Blaise Pascal

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Charles Spurgeon

Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.

Athanasius

The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

English Proverbs

For how can we adopt those things which we do not find in the holy Scriptures?

Albert Einstein

The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions.

Saint Ignatius

The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Annie Dillard

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Barry White

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

Bruno Tonioli

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

Judd Nelson

Death is not my best subject.

J. R. Moehringer

You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.

Hannah Arendt

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

Bethenny Frankel

I have always been a business person.

Walter Salles

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

Chris Elliott

I'm not a competitive person.

Cesar Chavez

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

Al Goldstein

The true success is the person who invented himself.

Aristotle

A person's life persuades better than his word.

Aldo Leopold

An oak is no respecter of persons.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.

Agatha Christie

Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.