Top 100 A Bible Quotes
#1. My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.
John Wesley
#2. God is erratic, sometimes vindictive, sometimes merciful. The people I was taught were heroes - Jacob or Moses or David - were ambivalent figures, or worse. But that messiness was joyful, and challenging. I loved having a Bible that I could argue with.
David Plotz
#3. If you want to be a wise person, you need a Bible.
Alistair Begg
#4. I don't think I have a split personality. I believe the same person I am on the field is the same person I am at home - passionate about everything I do, whether it's reading a Bible or just hanging out with my wife.
Troy Polamalu
#5. Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.
John Mellencamp
#6. He [Joseph] was the wearisomest self-righteous Christian that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbors.
Annabella Bloom
#7. he guessed they all knew what he'd done and counted him foolish for blatantly going against their boss. Well, he reasoned as he dropped his jacket over the high back of his chair, there was a Bible verse about the world's wisdom being foolish in the sight of God.
Kim Vogel Sawyer
#8. The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
Gail Collins
#9. I am not a Bible-believing Christian in the fullest sense simply by believing the right doctrines, but as I live in practice in this supernatural world.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#10. Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards.
Toni Morrison
#11. I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."
Roger Ross Williams
#12. Upon being given a Bible, President Abraham Lincoln replied, In regard to this Great book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.
Elton Trueblood
#13. he told me I wasn't crazy and gave me a Bible verse."
I smile at her. "You'll always be my Crazy Girl. What Bible verse?"
"Second Corinthians chapter four, verses sixteen to twenty. Do you know it?
Nancee Cain
#14. I am a nice young girl here to pick up your granddaughter for the weekend ... We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her. - Bones to Cat's grandparents
Jeaniene Frost
#15. Wish I'd been a prom queen fighting for the title
Instead of being sixteen and burning up a bible
Feeling super, super (super!) suicidal
Marina And The Diamonds
#16. Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.
William A. Dembski
#17. It represents a Bible verse I wear on my shoe. Philippians 4:13. It says 'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.' It's also my mantra, how I get up for games and why I play the way I do.
Stephen Curry
#18. A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.
Benjamin Franklin
#19. Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
Heywood Broun
#20. I think it's a sin to take a Bible verse out of context. It's like you're twisting the message.
Tijan
#21. It has been wisely said that you can take a child of God, put him in a dungeon with a Bible and a candle and lock him away, and he will know more about what's going on in today's world with the Word of God than all the pundits in Washington.
Adrian Rogers
#22. Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.
Cameron Diaz
#23. Mark v 39' - pencilled note to journo who rushed around on the rumour cora pearl had died. (as it was too early for her to give interviews)Finally he found a bible and mark v 39 is:'the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth
Cora Pearl
#24. Allowing us to edit the Bible according to some other standard (whatever that might be). In the end, we are left not with God's Word, but our word - a Bible of our own making.
Anonymous
#25. A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.
J.C. Ryle
#26. Lombardi: There's a whole series of beautiful Mozart and Wagner records, in still very pristine condition. But, never a Bible. Until now. May I ask what condition it's in?
Eli: It's beat up. But it will do the job.
Book Of Eli Movie
#27. Bernie could talk a Baptist into burning a Bible,
Pat Conroy
#28. Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.
William Hull
#29. This is poetry, but it is not delicate and fragile, a placid ocean beneath a Bible vese on an inspirational poster. This poetry had testicles. It's rougher than a rodeo. Which is why the cliffs are crowded with spectators
N.D. Wilson
#31. I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.
William Lyon Phelps
#32. Many people will never read a Bible, but they will read you.
Ricky Maye
#33. Is there a Bible chapter, I wonder? Futilities, verse four, paragraph two?'
'There will be.'
'And will I write it?'
'I have faith in you, Father!'
'Reverend!' he cried.
'Reverend,' I said.
Ray Bradbury
#34. doing God's will, eating the meat of the Word, is not listening to a Bible teacher, but going and doing what it says, especially as it relates to working in the harvest fields.
Bill Johnson
#35. In my experience, honest people don't need to put their hand on a Bible to tell the truth, and with dishonest people, it makes no difference.
Paul Levine
#36. Tip for the day: never eat a bible when you're starving to death.
Kevin Brooks
#37. Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!
Voltaire
#38. God's church is a Bible-centered church, and it grows strong under persecution.
Billy Graham
#39. Everything about her room betokened wealth; but she had put away the French novels, and had placed a Bible on a little table, not quite hidden, behind her own seat.
Anthony Trollope
#41. You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God ... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.
Charles Stanley
#42. Disney has a bible for their characters, so that people who draw Disney characters have to make them look correct.
Trina Robbins
#45. People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that people go to see. I think it's that simple. I promise you if people were lining up around the block to see a Bible movie, they'd make Bible movies from now to the end of time.
Alan Arkin
#46. I have furnished myself with a Bible and Testament; and I can say also that I have found them to be much worse books than I had conceived. If I have erred in any thing, in the former part of the Age of Reason, it has been by speaking better of some parts than they deserved.
Thomas Paine
#47. I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.
Sam Rockwell
#48. They came with a Bible and their religion- stole our land, crushed our spirit ... and now tell us we should be thankful to the 'Lord' for being saved. Chief Pontiac, American Indian Chieftain
George Washington
#49. 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.
Emily Bronte
#50. My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka.
Rashid Johnson
#51. Our Lord never called His people to help build the tower of Babel in the hope of getting a Bible study in the basement. He commanded us to build our own city on a hill.
David Chilton
#52. It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.
Alfred Douglas
#53. Voltaire spoke of the Bible as a short-lived book. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use. Not many people read Voltaire today, but his house has been packed with Bibles as a depot of a Bible society.
Bruce Barton
#54. Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment.
Leland Ryken
#55. I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.
Adrian Rogers
#56. If you have a Bible that's falling apart, you'll have a life that's not.
Adrian Rogers
#57. Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a place in Israel's history by recognizing the new state 11 minutes after it declared its independence in 1948.
Elliott Abrams
#58. Eileen says what they should really do, if they want to be fair about it, is offer a Bible study class for credit, and let us take that instead of sitting an extra hour in study hall, twiddling our so-called opposable thumbs.
Laura Moriarty
#59. It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.
John Milton
#60. Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
Abraham Lincoln
#61. God wants to use you right where you are. Every day you probably come in contact with people who will never enter a church, or talk with a pastor, or open a Bible - and God wants to use you to point them to Christ. You may be the "bridge" God would use to bring them to Himself.
Billy Graham
#62. My purpose in life, my goal for the NBA is to preach God's word - not just try to beat everybody over the head with a Bible but just being a good example and always conducting myself in a Christian-like manner.
Dwight Howard
#63. If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."
Sydney J. Harris
#64. I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.
Jensen Ackles
#65. There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
Bertrand Russell
#66. I ended up getting on my knees right there in my bedroom. I didn't have a tract that had, you know, 'here's how you pray to receive Christ' on it. I had never seen a tract in my life. I had never read a Bible.
Jim Hamilton
#67. He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors.
Martin Luther
#68. Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village.
Michael Scott
#69. Be a Bible man, go so far as the Bible, but not an inch beyond it. Though Calvin should beckon you, and you esteem him, or Wesley should beckon, and you esteem him, keep to the Scripture, only to the Scripture! from the Sermon: Infallibility - Where To Find It and How To Use It
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#70. Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.
Penn Jillette
#71. Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.
David Silverman
#73. So maybe someone listening will be inspired to pick up a Bible or go to church and their lives will be better and richer as a result.
Bethany Hamilton
#74. (The good news, as my mom used to say, is that in prison they can get a Bible, whereas in school they cannot.)
Emerson Eggerichs
#75. War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.
Edward Abbey
#76. Those whimpering Stateside young people will wake up on the Day of Judgment condemned to worse fates than these demon-fearing Indians, because, having a Bible, they were bored with it - while these never heard of such a thing as writing.
Jim Elliot
#77. I was a Green Day guy because the first DVD I bought was Green Day's 'Bullet In A Bible,' the live album. That really empowered me to be not just a drummer but a performer. It's a really crucial part of why I wanted to be in a band.
Ashton Irwin
#78. A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this
not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit.
Alistair Begg
#79. The devil would gladly give a Bible to every man and promote obedience to its commands if in exchange we would surrender to him the Gospel
Paul Washer
#80. I carry a bullet in my breast pocket. Once, a crazy evangelist threw a bible at me, which would have gone through my heart if it wasn't for the bullet.
Woody Allen
#81. Here's a teacher who's talking about Jesus and, oh no, she quotes a bible verse, horror of horrors. The world's breaking and torched and completely messed up, but God forbid some teacher mentions Jesus.
Travis Thrasher
#82. I love karate, it's like a bible to me. But deep inside I'm so I mean, I'm so sensitive.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#83. If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!
Vance Havner
#84. How can you go on stage and shout 'Yeah! Rock'n'roll forever!' and then go to bed at 10 o'clock with a nightcap on, a candle in your hand and a Bible under your arm?
Ozzy Osbourne
#85. W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. 'I'm looking for a loop-hole,' he explained.
W.C. Fields
#86. We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.
Vance Havner
#87. I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
Richard Dawkins
#88. Don't fret, Grannie. We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her
Jeaniene Frost
#89. If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need.
Charles Spurgeon
#90. Believing God isn't a book or a Bible study. It's a lifestyle.
Beth Moore
#91. Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.
Meshell Ndegeocello
#93. The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
Novalis
#94. The only book Knight didn't steal was the one he most often saw. 'I had no need for a Bible,' he said.
Michael Finkel
#95. I teach a Bible study for homeless guys in downtown Atlanta every week. Been doing it for years. That's the guys I'd rather go talk to. I'd rather take my act outside the church.
Jeff Foxworthy
#96. An education without a Bible education is no education.
Clive James
#97. DSM-IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific document ... DSM-IV has become a bible and a money making bestseller - its major failings notwithstanding.
Loren Mosher
#98. The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
Novalis
#99. It is a book for manufacturing companies that are fighting desperately for survival and that will go to any length to improve their factories and overcome the obstacles to success. One could even call this book a 'bible' for corporate survival.
Hiroyuki Hirano
#100. Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.
Javier Bardem
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