Martin Luther Quotes

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

Martin Luther

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• But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Up
  • Important
  • Kids

• As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Women
  • Faith
  • Bible

• I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Power
  • Best
  • Emotional

• Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Faith
  • Bible
  • Principle

• I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Way
  • Bible
  • Longing

• I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Important
  • Business
  • Hold

• An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Simple
  • Study
  • English

• The newly released movie 'Noah' features a retelling of the creation story that clearly depicts Darwinian evolution transforming a single-cell organism into a monkey. The movie also seems to show magic in scenes more reminiscent of the occult than of the Bible story.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Movie
  • Single
  • Magic

• When I was writing about the Republican primaries, it was as though the Bible was a black box that people reached into to pull out edicts and prejudices and rules and opinions, and I wish they had fact-checked it! Especially Rick Santorum.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Writing
  • Black

• The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Life
  • Live
  • Book

• Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: 'Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.' Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Different
  • Single

• My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God - he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Proud
  • Story
  • Idea

• With so many contradictory renditions of the biblical text, the public has lost confidence that we can actually know what the Bible says. It is an easy step from this skepticism to an indifference about what the Bible says.

  

  Leland Ryken
  • Lost
  • Confidence
  • Bible

• When I came to faith, I was on pro-choice boards, and I dropped off of those because you couldn't read the Bible and be pro-choice.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Faith
  • Bible

• The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • Trying
  • May
  • Wish

• The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

  

  Daniel Hannan
  • Words
  • Bible
  • Gold

• The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • God
  • Father
  • Air

• It was just two pitches, two runs, two mistakes. They were high.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • Mistakes
  • Runs
  • Pitches

• This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • Day
  • Liberty
  • Gun

• I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.

  

  Vinoba Bhave
  • Desire
  • Purpose
  • Tree

• In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered.

  

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  • Film
  • Happenings

• Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.

  

  Eugene Chadbourne
  • Home
  • Dog
  • Imagine

• The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Bible
  • Hold
  • Runs