Meanings of scriptural phrases in English

One could hear, over the babel of discordant yells, scriptural phrases.

Mother-love glowed through the few quaint and scriptural phrases like heat in anthracite coals.

Though they might deride the austere manners and scriptural phrases of the Puritans they were still at heart a religious people.

Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

In his Essay on Machiavelli, though the subject does not suggest it, he falls into Scriptural phrases over and over.

The familiarity with which the Puritans, on almost every occasion, used the Scriptural phrases was no doubt very ridiculous; but it produced good effects.

Scriptural phrases are apt to subject the speaker to a suspicion of insincerity, and should be used very seldom, and with the utmost reverence.