Bible Quotes

When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ.

Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.

Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.

If there was anybody I could meet that I have not met, I would say David. David from the Bible. He was a mighty man of God, and he was a warrior, and he was a worshipper.

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.)

The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.

Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.

Probably the most profound thing in the Bible is 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.' This is what, to me, is the essence of Christianity.

The purpose of the Bible is simply to proclaim God's plan to save His children.

The Bible urges us to be respectful to all people, especially people with whom we have disagreements, to never libel people, to never label people.

If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.

We don’t have to debate about what we should think about homosexual activity, it’s written in the Bible.

The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

The Bible opens and closes with a wedding.

Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.

We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible.

Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale.

...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.

Light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.

All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.

We lose our way around the Bible when we take our eyes off the Cross.

The Bible comes both to warn and to encourage and always to turn us again to the Lord Jesus Christ.

I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man, it goes out into the world-a Bible illustrated.

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

The Bible isn't quick to give answers; it mainly gives the Answer.

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

The Bible says that the the Lord thy God is a jealous God. But if you are omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, and the creator of all that exists, of whom could you possibly be jealous?

There is no record in the Bible of a weak man falling.

The bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

Together with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is an indispensable witness of the doctrines of Christ and His divinity.

Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.

[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's.

The Holy Bible. Promoting ignorance and superstition for nearly 2000 years.

The Bible does not say we should aim at numbers but rather urges us faithfully to proclaim God's message in the boldness of the Holy Spirit. This will build God's church God's way.

Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.

Scholars may quote Plato in studies, but the hearts of millions shall quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength from its inspiration, as the meadows draw it from the brook.

A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.