Holy Scripture

Famous quotes containing the words holy and/or scripture:

    It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
    The holy time is quiet as a Nun
    Breathless with adoration;
    William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    We know of no scripture which records the pure benignity of the gods on a New England winter night. Their praises have never been sung, only their wrath deprecated. The best scripture, after all, records but a meagre faith. Its saints live reserved and austere. Let a brave, devout man spend the year in the woods of Maine or Labrador, and see if the Hebrew Scriptures speak adequately to his condition and experience.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)