Quotes About Bible

One thing was for sure: no one wanted a repeat of Christopher Barker's Bible of 1631, which omitted the negative from the seventh commandment so that it read, 'Thou shalt commit adultery.

The evidence which we have of the great facts of the Bible history belongs to this class, that is, it is moral evidence; sufficient to satisfy any rational mind, by carrying it to the highest degree of moral certainty. If such evidence well justify the taking away of human life or liberty, in the one case, surely it ought to be deemed sufficient to determine our faith in the other.

It is already apparent that the 'minimalist' view of the Bible as wholly fictitious and unhooked from historical reality, may be as much of a mistake as the biblical literalism it sought to supersede.

The exodus from the flood valley of the Nile, the end of foreign enslavement, was presented by the Bible writers as the condition of becoming fully Israelite.

Pentru un credincios, Biblia este pur ?i simplu rodul revela?iei divine. Pentru un istoric, este o surs? contradictorie, nesigur?, repetitiv?5, ?i totu?i de o inestimabil? valoare, adesea singura disponibil? — dar în acela?i timp este prima ?i cea mai m?rea?? istorie a Ierusalimului.

When the missionaries came to Africa," Desmond Tutu famously (though not originally: that honor belongs to Jomo Kenyatta) remarked, "they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

Find wisdom, go deep in the Bible.

We are sometimes tempted to believe the lie that God does not love us. Thankfully the Bible is filled with evidence that this is not true.

There are lots of stories in the Bible, but all the stories are telling one Big Story. The Story of how God loves his children and comes to rescue them.

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.

I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.

The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

I made a little money. And like the Bible says, I was enjoying the fruits of my labor. This is my comeback. This is me doing what I love to do.

The Bible teaches that we are to love people and use money, but we often get that reversed and you start loving money and using people to get more money. Money is simply a tool to be used for good.

But here the correlation with Beauty and the Beast ends. In the fable, the beauty kisses the beast. In the Bible, the beauty does much more. He becomes the beast so the beast can become the beauty. Jesus changes places with us. We, like Adam, were under a curse, but Jesus changed places with us and put himself under that curse (Gal. 3:13).

Deliverance is to the Bible what jazz music is to Mardi Gras: bold, brassy, and everywhere.

The big news of the Bible is not that you fight for God but that God fights for you.

The key to spiritual growth is not increased church attendance or involvement in spiritual activities. People don't grow in Christ because they are busy at church. They grow in Christ when they read and trust their Bibles.

If the Bible is called the Good Book, it's not because its people are. Blood flows as freely through the stories as the ink through the quills that penned them.

You may be out of options, but according to the Bible you are never out of hope.

On-and-off salvation never appears in the Bible. Salvation is not a repeated phenomenon. Scripture contains no example of a person who was saved, then lost, then resaved, then lost again.

God intended for everyone to be able to read and understand his Word. The

If the Bible is called the Good Book, it's not because its people are. Blood runs as freely through the stories as the ink through the quills that penned them.