Bible Quotes

To delight in the law of the Lord is to find our source of joy outside of ourselves.

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

The response to stress is not less time in God's Word, but more.

The Bible's message is that you matter to God. Our response is that God should matter to us.

Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.

With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

If you need a guide for your ongoing relationship with God, read Psalms.

Turning water to wine? I mean c'mon, that's stupid. They should have let me write the bible.

The Bible provides unity without imposing uniformity, without prohibiting change; it is a standing invitation to thinking and to take responsibilities.

Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.

My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament.

I'm not a dogmatic Christian and I don't believe in the Bible literally, but I realized that Jesus is basically a very Zen dude.

I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly.

If I use the Bible to prove I am right, I have yet to be humbled by the beautiful truths of the Bible.

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.

Lying Ted, right? You know, lying Ted comes in with a bible held high. You know that, right? It's held high. He puts the bible down and then he starts lying all day long.

Eugene Peterson's language makes the Bible exciting and strong, sweet, sharp, persuasive, painful, personal, contemporary, kind, and dramatic—and available to every reader of this age.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.

There is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material.

[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.

The Bible calls debt a curse and children a blessing. But in our culture we apply for a curse and reject blessings. Something is wrong with this picture.

There are certain places in the Bible Code that must be changed in order for us to survive, not just to survive but to survive in a good way, so that we go back on track with the cosmic DNA.

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.

I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.

I really think the Bible is a baseline where all stories come from. All of the zillion stories in the Bible provide inspiration for everything.

I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.

If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done?' we’ll miss the good news that alone can set us free.

Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

We had to have a star each week.. Possibly our program being on Sunday and having a little fun with the Bible was dangerous.

I think the Bible should be re-written for today's society. We can call it 'Scrubs.'

I was raised in the church by my grandmother who made sure we went to Sunday School, read the Bible and went to church every Sunday. Every night we read Bible stories before we went to bed.

Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that you listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?

I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith--- any religion.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.

See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half done, between the rock and plain.

As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

Nay, nay!” said the Squire. “It’s not so easy to break one’s heart. Sometimes I’ve wished it were. But one has to go on living—‘all the appointed days,’ as is said in the Bible.

If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.

I'd like to think that my scripts are more significant than maybe the Bible or the book that the Jews use, whatever it's called. And that's only when I'm having an off day.

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.