Bible Quotes

Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological.

No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.

The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.

I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.

I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God.

In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.

It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.

We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church.

The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

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

I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah's Witnesses.

I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith - any religion.

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, "If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles."

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.