The Bible Quotes

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.

The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history, our geography. God is merely a byproduct of the bible.

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.

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.

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

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

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

A god of less wrath than the God of the Bible is necessarily a god of less love. His anger is a product of his love.

If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?

Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.

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?

Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.

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.

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.

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.

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

There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human hands and hearts.

Now, most people who suffer realize that the Bible contains answers for their plight; they just don't know where to look.

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.

Perhaps there was a correlation between taking prayer and Bible study out of schools, and what has happened in our society.

The truths of the Bible are never just abstract concepts; they're always related to real people.

I love the expression that 'When your Bible is falling apart, the man isn't.'

There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs and anthems.

What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.

They tell us the Book of Mormon states that Jesus was begotten of the Holy Ghost. I CHALLENGE THAT STATEMENT. The Book of Mormon teaches NO SUCH THING! NEITHER DOES THE BIBLE.

The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.

The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!

The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.

I don't read the Bible. Not because I don't want to, I just haven't got around to It yet. One day perhaps I'll pick it up and look at It.

Try this New Year's resolution: I won't check my phone, my tablet, or my computer until I've first read a chapter in my Bible.