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It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

— Desiderius Erasmus

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

— George William Russell

Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and invisible, must either believe in the Blood of Christ, or else face damnation.

— Ignatius of Antioch

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

— John Nelson Darby

The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.

— Matthew Henry

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

— Beverly Sills

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

— Julia Ward Howe

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

— Richard Cecil

When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.

— Thomas Ken

✗Opposing Perspectives

All strife concerning Christ's testaments cometh hence that men do not understand that Heaven wherein Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. They understand not that he is in this World, and that the World standeth in Heaven, and Heaven in the World, and are in one another, as Day and Night.

— Jakob Bohme

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

— Galileo Galilei