Quotes About Bible

If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.

My mother's a very spiritual woman, and I think Pentecostal religion, Bible religion, was very important to her because it gave her a context for a very spiritual approach to life.

This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.

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

I read to him from his mother's Bible the first line of Genesis: 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.' It says nothing about hell, Tom. That came later with the membership drive.

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

Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones frequently said, "The Bible was not given to replace the miraculous; it was given to correct abuses.

In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.

There's this thing that I like to call the RC Sproul principle of hermenutics. When you're reading the bible and you come across someone doing something really stupid, don't say to yourself "I'm glad I'm not him". Ask yourself "How am I that stupid?

The Bible is God's law-word which must govern every sphere of life and thought.

I don't know who said it first, but the following is good advice: If you do nothing but read your Bible, you will dry up; if you only pray, you will blow up; but if you read your Bible and pray, you will grow up.

If you walk in the Spirit, know your Bible, and spend sufficient time alone with God, your theology will take care of itself.

Translation is so important. The new American translations of the Bible sound like a Judith Krantz novel.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

Jesus was not this wimpy little guy who walked around munching sunflower seeds and saying nice things to people. The real Jesus of the Bible said, 'Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's.' That is: Obey the government.

'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

I'm just a really normal, sensitive kind of go-about-my business everyday kinda guy. People see the tattoos, and they either read things or they see things and they don't really know that I'm just this guy that gets up and makes coffee in the morning and hangs out with his friends and walks his dog and reads his Bible and goes about his day.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

Life is so, so short. The Bible says it's like a vapor.

I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible.

The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories.