Synonyms for scriptures
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1. scripturesnoun

   Synonyms:
   [With the prefixed.] the Bible, the Holy Scriptures, scripture, holy Writ, the word of god

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1. List of paraphrases for "scriptures":

   writes, entries

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1. Umberto Eco:

   A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

2. Martin Luther:

   At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

3. Jimmy Hanson:

   He spared no pains to make the place attractive so that it might minister comfort to the men, then every night would see him at the work which he loved and excelled in – expounding the Scriptures in a masterly way to the men who gathered to hear him.

4. Francis Cardinal George, OMI:

   Whatever our level of education, we can truly read and understand the Scriptures in the light of our faith in Jesus, the living Word, who is present and speaks to us today in and through his Church. Outside of that faith, no one can do theology or understand Scripture as God intends it to be understood.

5. Elizabeth Báthory:

   God, if you exist behind the Holy Scriptures then you have abandoned me. In war hundreds are killed and tortured and they are left there to rot and feed the vultures. And yet, we glorify our warriors. We give them laurel wreaths and honors. But all I get is torment, I cannot be humiliated this way. Give me an illness that will kill me fast. I cannot do it myself, I must go to heaven. Amen.