The Bible Quotes

The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous.

To some of us, raised and trained in allowing the Bible to absorb the world (that is, to "see" all of reality through the biblical story), the Bible is quite clear about all really important matters.

The idea of having no limits, either through education or money or possessions or power, is radically alien to everything the Bible assumes and says.

I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.

The Bible can touch our hearts, order our minds, refresh our souls.

Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book [the Bible].

The Bible tells us there will be a time for peace. But, so far in this century, mankind has failed to find it.

It doesn't matter what the FBI says. The New York Times is that big a bible for people on the left.

Everybody in the media thinks the New York Times is the bible. So whatever is in it is safe to run and is gospel, and is unchallengeable. It's infallible.

I read the bible often, not just to prepare for "Noah". I believe it is a very important book.

I was referencing the Bible: "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" But I'm not religious. I just thought it was a good title.

If only religious leaders could be trusted, then maybe there wouldn't be so many problems. They have perverted any truth that the Bible may have.

Looking at the Bible, it would seem that God is just a more highly evolved human.

But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it, his acts are folly. If you wanna be a fool, help yourself, it's not my problem.

I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

David, Moses, Saul of Tarsus, these were all people who did terrible terrible things  -  they were murderers. The Bible would be a lot shorter without grace.

Because you can poke someone's eye out legally doesn't mean you should and that it's right. The Bible teaches us a more perfect justice.

Karl Barth said it well: "We have to read the Bible in one hand... and the newspaper in the other." Our faith should not cause us to escape this world but to engage it.

I don't know if you've read the Bible, and if you haven't, I think you may be in a better place than those of us who have read it so much that it has become stale.

I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my spiritual text. To me, the Bible is a manifesto, a guide, a love letter, a story.

When Bird came on the scene, it was just as shocking as in the Bible: everything was dark, and then the light appeared for the first time.

I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six.

Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.

I don't want to shove the Bible down someone's throat with my music. That's not my goal.

We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.

I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.

So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.

Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.

We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this has to be done by harmonizing the Vedas, the Bible, and the Koran.

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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

The importance of the Bible to a church is to keep the church on track. The role of the Constitution in government is to keep the government on track.

If I were stranded on a desert island, the one book I would have with me would is the Bible. There are enough stories in the Bible to keep you engaged for years.

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.

Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.

A noble book! all men's book!

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.

The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.

Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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?