Bible Quotes

Many Christians understand the Bible to be a collection of stories without an overarching narrative.

One of the unique aspects of the Bible is that it is primarily a story illustrated by teaching and not primarily teaching illustrated by story.

The Bible says we need to love our enemies, bless our enemies. It does not say we should assume our enemies' priorities.

I let the scripts basically be my Bible.

Quite frankly, the bible is filled with advice that you'd never, want to follow. "Don't cut your hair on a rainy Thursday because locusts will eat your farm" kind of thing.

We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.

One problem with how we think about the Bible is that people tend to jam it into narrower categories, when in fact it is many things all at once.

I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture.

We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go the library from a very young age and get the books out.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.

The bible says, 'All things are possible.' I believe that.

The Bible says that God uses the foolish things and the base things of the world to accomplish His work. He apparently uses the tone deaf of the world to do something too.

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

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.

I'm strongly into the Bible; I'm strongly into God and religion.I'm pro-life and different things.

Wow. Ted Cruz falsely suggested Marco Rubio mocked the bible and was just forced to fire his communications director. More dirty tricks.

As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.

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.

Bible Code is a subject that is very controversial - most people in the world would not even know what we are talking about.

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.

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

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

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.

Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties.

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.

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.

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

Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text.

We're both [with Elie Wiesel] a long way from the position of the so-called Biblical minimalists. Some of them see no history in the Bible until Josiah.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

[The Bible] is been my passion almost from my youth.

I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

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

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.

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

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.

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 is God's great lesson book.

The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

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.

Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.

When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.

The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.

The concept of downsizing so that others might upgrade is biblical, beautiful...and nearly unheard of. We either close the gap or don't take the words of the Bible literally.

With the Hebrew Bible, you're living in an austere world.

If I ever write a book on "How True Is the Bible?" I'll have to start out by saying that archaeology is not the way to find out; that it has very little to say.

The history of interpretation [of the Bible] is fascinating; but that is something else.