Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.
For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.
Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.
From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology.
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
When I eat alone I feel like a seminarian being punished. I tried it for one week and I was not comfortable. Then I searched through Sacred Scripture for something saying I had to eat alone. I found nothing, so I gave it up and it's much better now.
The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta. . . . It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.
I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.
Sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
