Bible Quotes
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The real Stephen Colbert is a practicing Catholic. He teaches Sunday school. He can recite chapter and verse of chapter and verse - from both the King James Bible and 'The Lord of the Rings.'
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Perfect love casteth out fear, the Bible says; but, to speak it reverently, so does perfect hate.
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There were questions I didn't have the answers to, and I was trying to figure it out. I remember staying up until 4 A.M. reading the Bible and praying.
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A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.
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I knew all the right Bible answers and the Sunday school answers.
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The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
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The Bible towers in content above all earlier religious literature; and it towers just as impressively over all subsequent literature in the direct simplicity of its message and...its appeal to men of all lands and times.
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his God and Savior than a more learned scholar who is content with being theologically correct.
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When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12.
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The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.
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I have come to regard with some suspicion those who claim that the Bible never troubles them. I can only assume this means they haven’t actually read it.
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"A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern." ~ J.C. Ryle
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The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship.
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The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
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There is not one iota of history as we know it in the entire Bible!
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In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.
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The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.
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The Bible doesn't speak of "women's rights" in the social-political language we're used to hearing today. Still, that doesn't mean the Bible is silent on the subject.
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If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass.
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I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.
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Yours will be the wings of an eagle's flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy - in meditation, in prayer, and especially in the use of the Bible.
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I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy.
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I am one of those old-fashioned ministers who believe the whole Bible and everything that it contains.