Bible Quotes
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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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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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As a Christian, Israel has a very special place in my heart. There's no question about that. I grew up with a Bible, and the back of the Bible has all these pictures of Israel in it. And so all these locations are incredibly significant to me personally in my faith.
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To me Christianity was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.
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The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.
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As I grew a little bit older and got interested in law, I read that Clarence Darrow didn't believe in the Bible either. So I read everything he had ever written, all of his trials, everything - to search out the philosophy of his disbelief.But I couldn't find it.
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The Bible does not provide a map for life - only a compass.
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People in the United States, including me, are naturally inclined to support Israel. I'm an evangelical Christian who teaches the Bible every Sunday at my church. I teach half the Old Testament and half the New Testament. We Americans identify the Hebrews, the Israelites, with ourselves.
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Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.
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There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view is, it's called plenary inspiration, which holds that all religious truth taught in the Bible is true from God, but each word is not necessarily interpreted literally.
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All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.
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The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.
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I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.
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The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact.
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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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I didn't grow up reading the Bible.
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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 is full of God's promises to provide for us spiritually and materially, to never forsake us, to give us peace in times of difficult circumstances, to cause all circumstances to work together for our good, and finally to bring us safely home to glory. Not one of those promises is dependent upon our performance. They are all dependent on the grace of God given to us through Jesus Christ.
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I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.
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If you get into really learning about the roots of monotheism, it was utterly a radical cultural moment. The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it.
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It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.
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These displaced people need something, and the clergy can’t give it to them-or it’s impossible for them to take what the clergy offers. The clergy says it’s enough, and so does the Bible. The people say it isn’t enough, and I suspect they’re right.
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We're not teaching the Bible to the point that is getting it into people's hearts. A lot of churches stop after presenting biblical principles.
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The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.
