Sentence examples for old scripture from inspiring English sources

We all know what, according to the old Scripture, "pride goeth before".

When I started reading our old scriptures, like the "Baghavad Gita," I found it was useful for day-to-day life, so I started practicing it.

Tharpa Choling Monastery : a respiratory of old scriptures and documents.

That interpretation, as well as later efforts to find correspondences between the life of Jesus and older Scripture, allowed a Latin translation of an early passage from Solomon, "Nigra sum sed formosa" ("I am black but comely," spoken by a sun-darkened woman) to be adopted into Roman Catholic services celebrating the Virgin Mary.

An older scripture, Brihaddevata, also mentions that multiple Saudasas (sons of Sudasa) slay the hundred sons of Vashishtha.

Our oldest scriptures laid the framework of society around the pillars of knowledge; our challenge is to convert knowledge into a democratic force by taking it into every corner of our country.

Apostasy laws - like the blasphemy laws - have been borrowed from older scriptures.

The place was earlier known as "Tirumaraikadu", meaning the place where Vedas, oldest scriptures of Hinduism, originated.

The Vedas, the oldest scriptures of Hinduism, were composed during this period, and historians have analysed these to posit a Vedic culture in the Punjab region and the upper Gangetic Plain.

The Brahmanas (9th to 6th centuries BCE) are the oldest scriptures to mention a relationship between Ahalya and Indra in the "subrahmanya formula", a chant used by Vedic priests "at the beginning of a sacrifice to invite the main participants: Indra, the gods and the Brahmins" (priests).

Beethoven was influenced by the older Hindu scripture, the Rig-Veda.