Quotes About Bible

The Bible decrees that 'If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife' (Deuteronomy 22:28–9).

The biblical tale of Man's creation is, of course, the crux of the debate—at times bitter—between Creationists and Evolutionists and of the ongoing confrontation between them—at times in courts, always on school boards. As previously stated, both sides had better read the Bible again (and in its Hebrew original);

day, us. That the Bible's been saying so all along, clay being what Genesis meant by the "dust of the ground" that formed man, is obvious. What is not so obvious is how often we have been saying it to one another, and without knowing it.

The fact evil exists speaks far more about man than about God. The Bible says God hates sin.

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body. (Proverbs 16:24) A cheerful heart is a good medicine (Proverbs 17:22a)

The experience of Jesus' disciples shows that when we get into the Bible's teaching about things to come, it is easier to ask the wrong question than the right one. We want to ask When? Jesus is more interested in answering Why? and What for?

In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.

I've never seen so much suicide...The Bible is full of hope.

The Bible. Know it in your head. Stow it in your heart. Show it in your life. Sow it in the world.

Moreover, as we have already seen, the truth claims of the Bible are not rejected because the gospel is rationally incoherent or unsupported by historical evidence. Rather, the truth is rejected because the unchanged heart remains in love with the false notion of its own moral self-righteousness and/or intellectual autonomy.

If the Bible provides us with the only cohesive system of thought that allows us to properly interpret all of reality, why is it so hated and rejected by so many? If the truth claims of the Bible are logically demonstrable, why is it so despised and ridiculed by some of the brightest and smartest minds?

Our culture has never been more "spiritual" than it is today. But the problem is that while many teens believe in God, their beliefs about Him are defined by the culture, not by the Bible.

Saying "I meant well" is not going to cut it. Not with God screaming, begging, pleading, urging us to love mercy and justice, to feed the poor and the orphaned, to care for the last and least in nearly every book of the Bible. It will not be enough one day to stand before Jesus and say, "Oh? Were You serious about all that?

That brings us back to the overemphasis on Sunday morning as the front door: If love is the most effective way—and the Bible says it is—then how much genuine love can one pastor show an entire congregation? His bandwidth is not wide enough; this is a crippling, impossible burden.

Many believers get together to discuss a great book and mistakenly call it Bible study. That is, in fact, a book club with a spiritual theme.

You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible? Hmm?" I will tell Him that His press agents could have done with a writing lesson or two, I said. To myself.

However, if you're navigating the tension between your Bible and your life, or Jesus' ancient ideas and the modern wayward church, or God's kingdom on earth and reality, then welcome. Sometimes it's better to wade through murky waters with a fellow explorer than with an authority. Questions can still be investigated with another learner instead of with one who has only answers.

Herein lies the real place of Christian scholarship. Christian scholarship is the church's prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming too close. Oh, priceless scholarship, what would we do without you? Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God. Yes, it is even dreadful to be alone with the New Testament.

Sawyer? I just wiggled my feet! And my hands! And my temple!" "Your temple? As in your head?" "No. As in my lady temple ." "Your lady . . ." "Temple. Like how it says in the Bible that your body is a temple?" "Oh, God. Can be just go back to the part where you were talking about your hands and feet?

But the Bible isn't mainly about you and what you should be doing. It's about God and what He has done.

Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

He was, and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self-righteous pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself, and fling the curses on his neighbours.