Bible Quotes

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

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

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

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.

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.

There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions.

As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.

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

The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

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

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.

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.'

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's there, but it's not the Bible. I wait and see what happens to me on the day.

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

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.

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.

As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality.

I love the Bible.

I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.

The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world.

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.

My mother loved the Bible.

That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible.

Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.

I never read a self-help book except for the Bible.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.

The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

Where in the Bible does it say I have to drive a Honda?

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture.

The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life.

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to.

There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do.

When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.

Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it.

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

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

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

I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kidding.

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

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

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

When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.

The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context.

The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.

There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity.

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

The Bible is a study guide for social interaction.

If you look in the Bible there's no birthdays.

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

I have tried to have a regular daily intake from my Bible, regardless of how late it is.

The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct.