The Bible Quotes
Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked
If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.
This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.
When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.
Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.
And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.
I read the different translations of the Bible they had and really just dove into it, almost so I could prove it all right.
If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.
I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.
The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians.
Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible.
My own interest is far more in the Hebrew Bible. My religion is more personally related to the Hebrew Bible than it is to the New Testament.
The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible
To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.
It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.
Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.
Unless the Bible is first taught to our own hearts, then we have no basis from which to teach it to others at all.
Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.
The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".
Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.
When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.
I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.
Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.
Since the success of believers is tied to our knowledge of and obedience to God's Word, the memorizing of portions of the Bible is advisable.
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another.
I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.
The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.
Many unbelievers have threatened or prophesied the destruction of the Bible. Few people know the names of the skeptics. Everyone knows the names of Moses and Isaiah and Luke and Paul.
The message of the Bible is not about God in Heaven who wants to take from you. It's about God who wants to give to you.
As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible.
My wife told me that in the Bible, Abraham circumcised himself... wow! I can't even get to the bank before it closes.
The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I'm more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong.
As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'
