Bible Quotes

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.

My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium.

We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass.

My mother loved the Bible.

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

The Bible is God's sacred Word of truth.

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.

So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.

I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week.