Quotes About Bible

Bible verses are high-powered doses of truth that mainline God's wisdom into our reasoning.

Deborah's song in Judges 5. Then we come to

Dios nos ha dado un libro lo suficiente pequeño para sostenerlo en nuestras manos, lo suficiente grande para estudiarlo toda la vida, y lo suficiente rico para satisfacer nuestro corazón y nuestra mente para siempre.

Jesus once told us to find a quiet room of the house and retire there for regular private prayer (Matt. 6:6), and He Himself arose early in the morning for a time of communion with the Father before the day began (Mark 1:35). Our daily "quiet time" is the key to Christian serenity and sanctity. As we open our Bibles and our prayer notebooks in His presence, we can pray with Samuel, who said, "Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening" (1 Sam. 3:9 NIV).

From childhood you have know the Holy Scriptures. – 2 Timothy 3:15

For You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. – Isaiah 25:4

This is My commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you. – John 15:12

Jesus's reply is very instructive for our purposes: And He answered and said, "Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate." Matthew 19:4-6

I wanted stories that would build me up in my Christian faith. Like in the Bible where it says to fix our thoughts on what's true, honorable and right and to think about things that are admirable, excellent and worthy of praise.

According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man's prerogative - and woman's - to create their own particular and private hell.

The Church never endorsed the notion of the divine right of kings. That was first proclaimed by James I of England (1566–1625), a Protestant after whom the King James Version of the Bible is named. Instead, the Catholic Church always asserted that its authority was greater than that of monarchs.

Yet, in the end, we don't believe in creation just because it is more likely scientifically. We believe in creation because we trust what God has revealed to us in the Bible.

We can't treat the Bible with kid gloves. We really need to wrestle with the issues, because our faith depends on it.

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

Hazen thought for a moment, then concluded: "You know, even if all religions were figments of our imagination, I would choose Christianity, because it says you can be assured that you're right with God. There's no need for performance anxiety or laboring through lifetime after lifetime. As the Bible says in 1 John 5:13: 'I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

When the Bible says God loves the world, it doesn't footnote any exceptions. God's grace is inexhaustible.

Western culture generally, as well as the Christian subculture specifically, has had an unwarranted tendency to think that abstract ideas and facts are the only valid type of knowledge that we possess. Literature challenges that bias, and so does the Bible. The Bible is not a theological outline with proof texts attached. It is an anthology of literature.

Teaching the Bible involves far more than simply giving out information about the Bible. Bible teaching is ministering to people, liberating them from their inadequate concepts of God, expanding their notion of what it means to live faithfully before God, helping them cast aside old self-defeating habits and replace them with habits of holiness.

In all the operations of faith recorded in the Bible, there are no failures. The three Hebrew children didn't come out of the fiery furnace scorched. Faith works. Faith succeeds. The Bible records no defeats related to faith.

People eulogize Smith Wigglesworth. They call him a prophet of faith. But what they don't know is he sat almost all day, every day, reading the Bible, praying, and ministering to people. If you had asked him to do something else, he would have thought you were crazy. His knowledge of God was tremendous.

Thirdly, a collection of passages, both prose and verse, from books other than the Bible. There is not perhaps much, in what is called 'un-inspired' literature (a misnomer, I hold: if Shakespeare was not inspired, one may well doubt if any man ever was), that will bear the process of being pondered over, a hundred times: still there are such passages — enough, I think, to make a goodly store for the memory.

Terrific, Miss Knight. Simply terrific,' a smiling reporter said. 'They're going to love this story in Peoria. Why, you'll be famous everywhere - from New York to Hollywood, Florida to Kansas.' 'Kansas?' Theta whispered. 'Yeah. Big state in the middle of the country. Fulla corn, Republicans, and Bible salesmen, and not much else?

Let's look at one such creative counterpart described many years ago in the book of Proverbs. There are many outstanding, godly women mentioned throughout the Bible, but this woman received special praise: Many daughters have done well, But you excel them all (Proverbs 31:29). Who was this woman who did more than Deborah, the military adviser, or Ruth, the woman of constancy, or Esther, the queen who risked her life for her people? She was a wife and mother like you and me!

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.