Sourced and curated.

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Matthew 19:24 · 60

★ 9.3

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching · 400 BC

★ 9.2

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Inferno · 1321

★ 8.7

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

Matthew 7:7 · 60

★ 8.5

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 7:12 · 60

★ 8.5

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 1:26-27

1405 BC

★ 8.4

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

931 BC

★ 8.4

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: For thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: And I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

Psalm 23:1-6

450 BC

★ 8.4

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Inferno · 1321

★ 8.0

Long is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 7.8

O fairest of Creation, last and best Of all God's works.

Autobiography and memoir · Religious literature

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 7.8

Our heart is restless until it rests in you.

Confessions · 400

★ 7.8

Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.

St. Thomas Aquinas

1265

★ 7.8

Use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.

1st Timothy 5:23

★ 7.7

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.

Inferno · 1321

★ 7.7

Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

Revelation 2:10

★ 7.6

For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.

Luke 15:24

★ 7.5

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Romans 10:13 · 56

★ 7.5

In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.

Psalm 120:1

450 BC

★ 7.4

Letter · Religious literature

There cannot be salvation for any, except in the Church.

St. Cyprian

256

★ 7.3

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 2:7

1405 BC

★ 7.2

And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

Genesis 2:2

1405 BC

★ 7.2

And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

Mark 3:24-25 · 60

★ 7.2

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Matthew 6:33 · 60

★ 7.2

For many are called, but few are chosen.

Matthew 22:14 · 60

★ 7.2

Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Exodus 20:12 · 1405 BC

★ 7.1

If God be for us, who can be against us?

Romans 8:31 · 56

★ 7.1

He gave up the ghost.

Luke 23:46

★ 7.1

Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe That all was lost.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 7.1

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

Matthew 5:44 · 60

★ 7.1

Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?”

Pontius Pilate

John 18:38 · 90

★ 7.1

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.

Tertullian

197

★ 7.1

Of Man's First Disobedience, and the fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing, Heav'nly Muse.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 7.1

The kingdom of God is within you.

Luke 17:21 · 61

★ 7.1

Thou shalt not steal.

Exodus 20:15 · 1405 BC

★ 7.1

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

Proverbs 3:5-6

686 BC

★ 7.1

What is hateful to you do not to your neighbor: that is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary.

Hillel the Elder

★ 7.1

You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Matthew 7:5 · 60

★ 7.1

Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Matthew 25:40 · 60

★ 7.1

Why seek ye the living among the dead?

What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

Luke 24:5 · 61

★ 7.1

Treatise · Religious literature

Tertullian

220

★ 7.1

What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the height of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 7.1

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

Matthew 6:9-13 · 60

★ 7.0

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah 2:4

681 BC

★ 7.0

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8 · 56

★ 7.0

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Matthew 26:26-28 · 60

★ 7.0

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Matthew 5:7 · 60

★ 7.0

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Matthew 6:28-29 · 60

★ 7.0

And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

Luke 2:6, 7

★ 7.0

For I am the Lord, I change not.

Malachi 3:6

424 BC

★ 7.0

For hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal.

Pali Tipitaka

100 BC

★ 7.0

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

1st Corinthians 13:4-8 · 55

★ 7.0

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1st John 1:8

★ 7.0

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

931 BC

★ 7.0

Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?

Acts 9:4 · 62

★ 7.0

The love of money is the root of all evil.

1st Timothy 6:10

★ 7.0

Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.

The Talmud

200

★ 7.0

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Mother Teresa

1975

★ 7.0

If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.

Mark 9:23 · 60

★ 6.9

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:1

★ 6.9

Whether a Million of Angels may not sit upon a needle's point?

William Chillingworth

1637

★ 6.9

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Haste denies all acts their dignity.

Purgatorio · 1321

★ 6.5

If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Matthew 16:24 · 60

★ 6.5

Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again.

Acts 9:18

★ 6.4

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Genesis 2:23

1405 BC

★ 6.3

The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.

Isaiah 40:8

681 BC

★ 6.3

Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Matthew 5:39 · 60

★ 6.3

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Exodus 20:4-6 · 1405 BC

★ 6.2

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Genesis 1:28

1405 BC

★ 6.2

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Genesis 3:19 · 1405 BC

★ 6.2

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

Isaiah 40:4-5

681 BC

★ 6.2

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:22-23 · 50

★ 6.2

For I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.

Matthew 25:35-36 · 60

★ 6.2

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Matthew 5:8 · 60

★ 6.0

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching · 400 BC

★ 5.8

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another.

Thence we came forth to see the stars again.

Romans 13:8 · 56

★ 5.7

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Inferno · 1321

★ 5.7

Who overcomes By force hath overcome but half his foe.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 5.6

I have been a stranger in a strange land.

Moses

Exodus 2:22 · 1405 BC

★ 5.5

But I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

Moses

Exodus 4:10 · 1405 BC

★ 5.5

Be not wise in thine own eyes.

Proverbs 3:7

686 BC

★ 5.5

He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.

Isaiah 53:7

681 BC

★ 5.5

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

Psalm 103:12

450 BC

★ 5.5

Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.

1st Thessalonians 5:11 · 51

★ 5.5

Your lamb shall be without blemish.

Exodus 12:5 · 1405 BC

★ 5.5

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:28 · 56

★ 5.5

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.

Matthew 22:21 · 60

★ 5.5

They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Matthew 15:14 · 60

★ 5.5

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Matthew 5:11 · 60

★ 5.5

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5:10 · 60

★ 5.5

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Matthew 7:15 · 60

★ 5.5

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:7 · 62

★ 5.5

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:17 · 90

★ 5.5

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.

Exodus 20:17 · 1405 BC

★ 5.4

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Genesis 3:4-5

1405 BC

★ 5.4

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

Numbers 6:24-26 · 1405 BC

★ 5.4

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

Genesis 3:7-8

1405 BC

★ 5.4

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

Genesis 22:2

1405 BC

★ 5.4

Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.

David

1st Samuel 17:45 · 1010 BC

★ 5.4

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

Proverbs 25:25

686 BC

★ 5.4

A fool uttereth all his mind.

Proverbs 29:11

686 BC

★ 5.4

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Matthew 22:37-39 · 60

★ 5.4

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.

Matthew 21:22 · 60

★ 5.4

Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; or as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you.

Acts 17:22-23 · 62

★ 5.4

the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

1st Thessalonians 5:2

★ 5.4

Pamphlet · Religious literature · Philosophical literature

I believe in one God and no more, and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.

Thomas Paine

The Age of Reason · 1794

★ 5.4

Pamphlet · Religious literature · Philosophical literature

The church has set up a system of religion very contradictory to the character of the person whose name it bears. It has set up a religion of pomp and of revenue in pretended imitation of a person whose life was humility and poverty.

Thomas Paine

The Age of Reason · 1794

★ 5.4

Novel · Religious literature

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters · 1942

★ 5.4

And the swine…is unclean to you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. They are unclean to you.

Leviticus 11:7-8 · 1405 BC

★ 5.3

And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:21

1405 BC

★ 5.3

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth.

Song of Solomon 3:1

965 BC

★ 5.3

My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 6:20

686 BC

★ 5.3

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Proverbs 13:20

686 BC

★ 5.3

O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.

David

1st Chronicles 16:34 · 430 BC

★ 5.3

Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.

Luke 23:46 · 61

★ 5.3

None so blind as those that will not see.

Matthew Henry

Commentaries (Henry) · 1706

★ 5.3

Sermon · Religious literature

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.

Jonathan Edwards

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God · 1741

★ 5.3

Psychological literature · Religious literature

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

William James

The Will to Believe · 1896

★ 5.3

My beloved is mine, and I am his.

Song of Solomon 2:16

965 BC

★ 5.2

With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

Matthew 19:26 · 60

★ 5.2

Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.

Christopher Hitchens

God is Not Great · 2007

★ 5.2

I am not mad...but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.

Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.

Acts 26:25 · 62

★ 5.1

Essay · Religious literature

Christopher Hitchens

The Portable Atheist · 2007

★ 5.1

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 17:17

686 BC

★ 5.0

Religious literature · Scientific literature

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

Robert Jastrow

God and the Astronomers · 1978

★ 5.0

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.

James 4:8

★ 4.9

A people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love.

City of God · 426

★ 4.9

Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 4.8

Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Exodus 3:5 · 1405 BC

★ 4.7

And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark.

Genesis 6:19 · 1405 BC

★ 4.7

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink.

Isaiah 5:11

681 BC

★ 4.7

If any would not work, neither should he eat.

2nd Thessalonians 3:10

★ 4.7

Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

Matthew 25:13 · 60

★ 4.7

But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.

John 11:22 · 90

★ 4.7

God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

1st John 1:5

★ 4.7

The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."

Genesis 2:18

1405 BC

★ 4.6

I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Exodus 20:2 · 1405 BC

★ 4.6

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 6:5

1405 BC

★ 4.6

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Genesis 2:24

1405 BC

★ 4.6

I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

Genesis 9:13 · 1405 BC

★ 4.6

Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

Genesis 19:24

1405 BC

★ 4.6

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

Ecclesiastes 1:7

931 BC

★ 4.6

A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

Proverbs 10:1

686 BC

★ 4.6

Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.

Job

Job 1:21 · 500 BC

★ 4.6

As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.

Psalm 125:2

450 BC

★ 4.6

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

1st Corinthians 13:11 · 55

★ 4.6

This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.

1st Corinthians 11:25 · 55

★ 4.6

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:23 · 56

★ 4.6

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

Matthew 16:25 · 60

★ 4.6

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.

Mark 2:17 · 60

★ 4.6

He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

Matthew 5:45 · 60

★ 4.6

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

Acts 17:28 · 62

★ 4.6

All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.

1st Peter 1:24

★ 4.6

I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

John 6:35 · 90

★ 4.6

I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.

John 8:12 · 90

★ 4.6

What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.

Martin Luther

The Large Catechism · 1529

★ 4.6

Be still, and know that I am God.

Psalm 46:10

450 BC

★ 4.5

And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

Genesis 3:13-14

1405 BC

★ 4.5

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Genesis 3:6

1405 BC

★ 4.5

I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey.

Exodus 3:8

1405 BC

★ 4.5

And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

Genesis 2:16-17

1405 BC

★ 4.5

I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.

Exodus 20:5 · 1405 BC

★ 4.5

Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 12:1-3

1405 BC

★ 4.5

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9:6-7

681 BC

★ 4.5

Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire: but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

1st Kings 19:11-12

538 BC

★ 4.5

As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, And its place remembers it no more.

Psalm 103:15-16

450 BC

★ 4.5

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Matthew 6:24 · 60

★ 4.5

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Matthew 7:13-14 · 60

★ 4.5

Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

Judas

Matthew 26:14-15 · 60

★ 4.5

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.

Luke 4:18-19

★ 4.5

Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

Philippians 4:8 · 62

★ 4.5

Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.

Thomas

John 20:25 · 90

★ 4.5

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Revelation 21:4

★ 4.5

Pamphlet · Religious literature · Philosophical literature

It is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Thomas Paine

The Age of Reason · 1794

★ 4.5

God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM".

Exodus 3:14

1405 BC

★ 4.5

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

A Comment on Ruth: And Notes Upon Jonah · 1654

★ 4.5

He who finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor from the Lord.

Proverbs 18:22

686 BC

★ 4.4

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Job

Job 12:12 · 500 BC

★ 4.4

Old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

2nd Corinthians 5:17 · 56

★ 4.4

Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

Revelation 4:11

★ 4.4

That there is a Devil, is a Thing Doubted by none but such as are under the Influence of the Devil. For any to Deny the Being of a Devil must be from an Ignorance or Profaneness, worse than diabolical.

Cotton Mather

The Wonders of the Invisible World · 1693

★ 4.4

This universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.

John H. Holmes

The Sensible Man's View of Religion · 1932

★ 4.3

Letter · Papal encyclical · Religious literature

The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.

Pope John XXIII

Pacem in Terris · 1963

★ 4.3

Sermon · Religious literature

Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written, or spoken laws; it is He, who is truly the Law-giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote, or spoke them.

Benjamin Hoadly

1717

★ 4.2

Wisdom is the principal thing.

Proverbs 4:7

686 BC

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

My course is set for an uncharted sea.

O pure and noble conscience, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Paradiso · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

In His will is our peace.

Purgatorio · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

A great flame follows a little spark.

Paradiso · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

He listens well who takes notes.

Paradiso · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Inferno · 1321

★ 4.0

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

Exodus 20:7 · 1405 BC

★ 4.0

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

Ecclesiastes 1:4

931 BC

★ 4.0

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.

Proverbs 13:19

686 BC

★ 4.0

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Gautama Buddha

511 BC

★ 4.0

Put not your trust in princes.

Psalm 146:3

450 BC

★ 4.0

The sage does not accumulate for himself. The more he uses for others, the more he has himself. The more he gives to others, the more he possesses of his own. The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching · 400 BC

★ 4.0

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.

Ephesians 2:8

★ 4.0

Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city.

Angel

Revelation 14:8 · 90

★ 4.0

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

With the color that paints the morning and evening clouds that face the sun I saw then the whole heaven suffused.

Confessions · 400

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Here one must leave behind all hesitation; here every cowardice must meet its death.

Paradiso · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

O human race, born to fly upward, Wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

Inferno · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

The reputation which the world bestows is like the wind, that shifts now here now there, its name changed with the quarter whence it blows.

Purgatorio · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

I saw within Its depth how It conceives all things in a single volume bound by Love, of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

Purgatorio · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing.

Paradiso · 1321

★ 4.0

Hymn · Song · Religious literature

Martin Luther

A Mighty Fortress is Our God · 1529

★ 4.0

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

Martin Luther

1529

★ 4.0

All hell broke loose.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 4.0

With thee conversing I forget all time.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 4.0

Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 4.0

Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 4.0

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years.

Numbers 14:33 · 1405 BC

★ 3.9

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Exodus 20:8-11 · 1405 BC

★ 3.9

Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

Amos 3:3

750 BC

★ 3.9

There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Proverbs 18:24

686 BC

★ 3.9

He that trusteth in his riches shall fall.

Proverbs 11:28

686 BC

★ 3.9

Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.

Elihu

Job 37:5 · 500 BC

★ 3.9

How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!

Psalm 133:1

450 BC

★ 3.9

The Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts.

David

1st Chronicles 28:9 · 430 BC

★ 3.9

I am mighty Time, the source of destruction that comes forth to annihilate the worlds.

Krishna

Bhagavad Gita · 200 BC

★ 3.9

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

2nd Corinthians 5:7 · 56

★ 3.9

But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Matthew 24:36 · 60

★ 3.9

But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

Matthew 19:30 · 60

★ 3.9

My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death.

Matthew 26:38 · 60

★ 3.9

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Revelation 22:13 · 90

★ 3.9

He cannot have God for his father who has not the church for his mother.

St. Cyprian

251

★ 3.9

Hear the other side.

391

★ 3.9

Even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray.

Jianzhi Sengcan

606

★ 3.9

No compulsion is there in religion.

Muhammad

The Quran, The Koran, 2:256 · 632

★ 3.9

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

Muhammad

The Quran, The Koran, 1:1 · 632

★ 3.9

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

Yuanwu Keqin

1125

★ 3.9

If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe. A lion would cease to live, if there were no slaying of animals; and there would be no patience of martyrs if there were no tyrannical persecution.

St. Thomas Aquinas

1265

★ 3.9

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

The greatest gift which God in His bounty Bestowed in creating, And the most conformed to His own goodness And that which He most prizes, was the freedom of the will, With which the creatures that have intelligence, They all and they alone, were and are endowed.

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, as sand eddies in a whirlpool.

Paradiso · 1321

★ 3.9

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Inferno · 1321

★ 3.9

They consider the deed but God weighs the motive.

Thomas a Kempis

The Imitation of Christ · 1418

★ 3.9

For man proposes, but God disposes.

Thomas a Kempis

The Imitation of Christ · 1427

★ 3.9

Oh how quickly the glory of the world passes away!

Thomas a Kempis

1427

★ 3.9

What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 3.9

Nor love thy Life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well; how long or short permit to Heaven.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 3.9

Flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.