Quotes About Bible

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of those branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.

Even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police. - Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894 Virginibus Puerisque The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. - Ezekiel, 18:2 The Bible

The Bible presents a grace-soaked, spectacular vision for female beauty. It insists that the King is enthralled—ENTHRALLED!—with the beauty of every woman who puts her faith in Him. We

Beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God, and he who loves is born of God, and knows God. He who doesn't love, does not know God,for God is love. John 4: 7-8

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. -John 15:12

Praying should help, remembering Bible verses should help. Rylan figured he must be doing it wrong because it was only making him worry more. So he forced his thoughts from those worries and found himself watching every move Maizy made. That was another kind of madness.

Don't you care that your neighbors are suffering?" "In a word, no. The Bible says that the poor will always be with us, and if Jesus couldn't change that, I certainly can't.

Believing this country to be a political and not a religious organisation ... the editor of the NATIONAL CITIZEN will use all her influence of voice and pen against 'Sabbath Laws', the uses of the 'Bible in School', and pre-eminently against an amendment which shall introduce 'God in the Constitution.

Let it be our great concern to see on what terms we stand with our Bibles, whether they justify us or condemn us now; for the Judge of all will proceed by that rule.

The most quieting considerations under affliction are those that are fetched from the word of God.

Every scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Second, they say it has been discovered before. Last, they say they always believed it.

There are effective ways to teach the Bible and ineffective ways.

Nature is God's first missionary. Where there is no Bible there are sparkling stars. Where there are not preachers there are spring times... If a person has nothing but nature, then nature is enough to reveal something about God.

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

Any serious reading of the Bible means personal involvement in it, not symbol mental agreement with abstract propositions. And involvement is dangerous, because it leaves one open to unforeseen conclusions.

The English Bible has often been called a preacher's Bible. Written to be spoken, written to spread the word in the language of the land, a cause for which Wycliffe and Tyndale and hundreds of other English Christians had lived and died.

If you are an educated person, you will need to be careful not to assume that uneducated people are too stupid to understand the Bible.

The central theological principle of the Bible [is] the rejection of idolatry.

The third oddity was the surface on which Lawrence was doing his own succussion. It was a huge, black leather-bound King James Bible. Having done three raps on the Bible, his fist clenched around a vial containing a homeopathic remedy made from amethyst, Lawrence looked up. His face said, "I wish you hadn't seen that". "You don't have to use a Bible," he assured me.

he'd read the Bible, the Torah, the Koran, and heard the Upanishads were no different—it was clear the battle for justice was in the heart; each soul was precious. "The great religions teach us," he said through tears, "that the loss of one soul affects us all." Whispers

Then Luke commits his most grievous error, and I'm not sure I will ever be able to forgive him for it, at least this side of heaven. Luke reports in verse 27 that Jesus explained everything concerning himself in the Old Testament. What was Luke possibly thinking? The greatest Bible lesson of all time, and yet we have not a single word!

Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.

Literal interpretation without context is not only dangerous but contrary to what the Bible teaches.