Bible Quotes

The only place we can find a clear, unmistakable message is in the Word of God, which we call the Bible.

The best way to know God's will is to be familiar with the Bible.

The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like Job

If you are serious about changing your life, you are going to have to get into the Bible. You need to read it, study it, memorize it, meditate on it, and apply it.

The Bible teaches that we are to love people and use money, but we often get that reversed and you start loving money and using people to get more money. Money is simply a tool to be used for good.

I've read the Bible, but I felt like a lot of the Bible was oppressive towards women. Then I read the Quran, and I thought it was also oppressive towards women.

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.

There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.

In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.

The Bible says that evil cannot be negotiated with. It has to just be stopped.

The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.

Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

Our point, however, is not to worship the Bible; we worship the God of the Bible.

I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible for loopholes.

There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.

Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.

When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.

The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.

The Bible was meant to be read by those in love. It's sad when it's not.

Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.

The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.

If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need.

The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death

The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.

The Bible alone is the only authority that can bind the conscience of a person absolutely because it is the only authority that carries with it the intrinsic authority of God Himself.

God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with delight.

As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years.

The American people don't need to just hear about the importance of the Constitution or the Bible. They have to understand that those principles are in their best interests.

I don't see how anybody can read the Bible and believe it's the word of God, or believe that it is anything but a barbarous story of a barbarous people.

Some parts of the Bible are dreadful. In fact, my working title for The Sins of Scripture was "The Terrible Text of The Bible."

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.

The Bible is the best and most important tool in discerning direction from God.

If I don't have anything to sacrifice, I don't have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you must sacrifice.

The rhema is regarded as a more immediate word from God which we do not find in the 66 books of the Bible.

You will fear something or someone. The Bible says the wisest way to go about your life is to fear God.

If you are expecting Paul to read the Bible like it was set in stone, you will find yourself getting pretty nervous. For Paul, now that Jesus has come, the Bible was more like clay to be molded.

The Bible doesn't speak of "women's rights" in the social-political language we're used to hearing today. Still, that doesn't mean the Bible is silent on the subject.

The story of Hosea and Gomer is the second most powerful picture of God's love in the Bible. Other than Christ's death, there is no greater picture of love.

Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.

The religion of the Bible is wholly supernatural.

God knows that sometimes we lack words to express our feelings, heart-cry, thoughts. And so within the Bible he includes people's prayers as models to help our own.

I can quote you lots of chapters in verse from the bible that are terrible for women. But you can use the bible to either liberate or subjugate women. And it's the same with the Koran.