Bible College Quotes

#1. Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.

John Berger

#2. When you teach, you need to give the students incentives by grades or by other factors. I went to the Bible to find that topic in Scripture. I was shocked that after college and graduate school I had no idea that Jesus Christ had talked so much about rewards.

Bruce Wilkinson

#3. I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.

Tom Perrotta

#4. What is needed to attain happiness is not a comfortable life, but a heart in love, such as Christ's.

Dario Castrillon Hoyos

#5. I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that's the kind of stuff that still makes my brain work.

Win Butler

#6. Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down.

Debbi Fields

#7. Where do business leaders turn for advice to improve their leadership skills? Many successful leaders like Dan Cathy, President and COO of Chick-fil-A turn to the Bible. Speaking at Trinity College in Illinois, "Cathy discussed how scripture dictates Chick-fil-A's business plan.

R.J. Stepansky

#8. Choices are made before explanations, whether or not we care to know it.

L.S. Hilton

#9. I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

Theodore Roosevelt

#10. Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry.

William Booth

#11. But I didn't understand the middle-of-a-Tuesday Jesus. I only knew him as a when-I-get-to-heaven Jesus. He was my ticket and not much else.

Emily P. Freeman

#12. I went straight from high school to Bible college for two years. Then I started doing music right out of Bible college full time. I did independent stuff for three years.

Jeremy Camp

#13. A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Theodore Roosevelt

#14. We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#15. I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.

Philip Yancey

#16. By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.

Jay Parini

#17. My parents ... has always wanted all their kids to go to at least one year of Bible college after high school. I always knew that I was on my way to Moody Bible Institute when I graduated high school.

David A.R. White

#18. Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.

LL Cool J

#19. I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.

William Lyon Phelps

#20. The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young.

Arno C. Gaebelein

#21. What can educators do to foster real intelligence?..We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness.

David W. Orr