Quotes About Bible

Are you afraid? Remember the "fear nots" of the Bible.

Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence.

The word of God is a fountain of life.

I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble, Dalton, or Crown. They are the used bookstores, in which, for a couple of hundred dollars, one can still find, with some diligence, the essential books of our culture, from the Bible and Shakespeare to Plato, Augustine, and Pascal.

The late international Bible teacher Derek Prince, the spiritual father who

One thing the Bible does not do: it does not denigrate the mind. The Bible is not anti-intellectual. Rather it gives the reason why all of us know what we know, why we can think with some degree of accuracy, and why we fail to think with complete accuracy.

The life-boat may have a tasteful bend and beautiful decoration, but these are not the qualities for which I prize it; it was my salvation from the howling sea! So the interest which a regenerate soul takes in the Bible, is founded on a personal application to the heart of the saving truth which it contains.

Although the Bible is a library of books, it is also "the book." It is a story, a grand story, of God's love for His people, and the price He was willing to pay to restore us into perfect fellowship with Him.

The Bible summarizes it: "The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being" (Heb. 1:3). That means the Creator God is humble, self-giving, and the safest kind of leader—because that's who Jesus is. If you see Jesus, then the Bible claims you are seeing God.

Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance.

Placing his hand on the Bible, George began the oath: "I solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." Then George added something that wasn't a required part of the oath. "So help me God!" he exclaimed as he lifted the Bible and kissed it.

The Bible says if you pray for wisdom, God will give it to you!

God already knows who did this, after all. If we pray for wisdom, He will give it to us. That's what the Bible says. So pray for wisdom!

Dance comes naturally to us when we're little but fades when we get older. Too many people let the stresses of life get them wound up. I think there's something to be said for cutting loose and having a good time. And hey, people even danced in Bible days.

I want to read the employment section of the Bible. I think it's simply called Job.

The only way that apple trees, lilies, marriage and sex, gender and procreation, or even Bibles or language can reveal to us so much about the nature of God is that they're good gifts that bear the imprint of their divine Maker.

The desire to become a different sort of person is precious. It rarely happens to us. But one way it can happen is if someone we admire sees in us a better sort of person than we presently are. And praise it, until it comes into being. This is finally what church is for. It is what reading the Bible is for: becoming a different sort of a person. The sort of person the church calls a saint.

The point of the Bible isn't to learn what it says. The point of going to church isn't to be more religious. The point of both is to be made into nothing but love of God and neighbor.

When we read the Bible christologically, we are not smuggling Jesus in -- we are discovering him there, to our and others' delight. To say otherwise is to fail to read Paul or Luke well. It's to miss that all creation hollers praise. It is to leave the world ungraced, uncharged by the grandeur of God, with no witness to the One who creates and redeems it in Christ.

If you want to know where God is, look where God is unendingly sharing the divine presence. The space between us and the bible isn't a tragically empty vacuum. It is a resplendent party, full of angels and saints and not a few rogues, and there's a place for you and me. The host is Jesus alone.

I am convinced that the Bible is a delight and that studying the Bible is about learning to see that delight.

Reading the Bible, for Christians, is a matter of expecting to be surprised by Jesus again.

an odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly manner, making use of intermediaries.

the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea" (Hab.