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  • All scripture isgiven by inspiration of God, and is profitable of doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
      Timothy 3:16.

  • Dearly beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Morning Prayer, Sentences of the Scriptures.

  • Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Articles of Religion, VI  Of the Sufficiency of the holy Scriptures for Salvation.

  • In brief, where the Scripture is silent, the church is my text; where that speaks,'tis but my comment; where there is a joint silence of both, I borrow not the rules of my religionfrom Rome or Geneva, butthe dictates of my own reason.

    - SirThomas Browne
    ^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 5.

  • Scriptura sacra mentis oculis quasi quoddam speculum opponitur, ut interna nostra facies in ipsa videatur. Holy scripture is placed before the eyes of our mind like a mirror, so that we may view our inner face therein.

    -Pope Gregory I known as  'the Great'
    c.582  Moralia in Job, bk.2, ch.1, section1.

  • Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says.

    - Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
      Aunt Polly.TheAdventures ofTom Sawyer, ch.1.

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