Scripture

Famous quotes containing the word scripture:

“Every family has one passage of scripture they stumble over.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its maxims. It has no temple, nor even a solitary column. There goes a rumor that the earth is inhabited, but the shipwrecked mariner has not seen a footprint on the shore. The hunter has found only fragments of pottery and the monuments of inhabitants.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)