Famous quotes containing the words holy and/or scripture:
“There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“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)