Top 100 Holy Book Quotes
#1. Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command.
Monica Crowley
#2. Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition?
Kabir Bedi
#3. Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
Richard Dawkins
#4. No Prophet ever said to follow a church, religion or holy book. Do you think that is just a coincidence?
Ed Strachar
#5. The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
Hamid Karzai
#6. In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation ...
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#7. Kept talking about how she's studying every holy book she can get her hands on, aiming to understand God's word. I quoted St. Augustine to her. 'If you understand it, it isn't God.' Gave her a cup of chamomile tea.
Jeanne DuPrau
#8. The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.
Leonard Ravenhill
#9. God has not any Holy Book; but Man has many Holy Book writers! Producing Holy Books is a cosmic crime against the God! God has not spoken yet! He has been silent for billions of years, because He is out of this universe!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.
Rajneesh
#11. An all-loving god would surely not damn his children to an eternity of torture simply for being born into a culture that believes in the wrong deity, follows the wrong holy book or attends the wrong type of church services.
Armin Navabi
#12. If we could popularize the understanding that all conclusions from scripture are but interpretations, then all variant readings of a holy book would become a matter of differing human perspectives. That
Sam Harris
#13. In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain.
Jim Al-Khalili
#14. Just because I've extricated myself from religion doesn't mean I'm not interested in the scriptures. I look at the Bible as itself. It's a holy book, it has incredible literature in it and beautiful poetry.
Patti Smith
#15. My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution.
Narendra Modi
#16. It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.
Terry Pratchett
#17. My Holy Book is human intelligence; I have no other Holy Book at all!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.
Joseph Brodsky
#19. We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Quran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God's lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book.
Ismail Haniyeh
#20. As a Swiss writer once said, "We wanted a labor force but human beings came," and what nobody had foreseen was that those workers would bring their mosques, their holy book, and huge swathes of their culture with them.
Terry Hayes
#21. From my experience with God, and what I read from his Holy Book. I sometimes think that he is more interested in our discomfort than in our comfort.
Sunday Adelaja
#22. As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.
Philip Pullman
#23. Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#25. The holy book he'd spent so much of his life preaching from had one cruel flaw: it was not very good at offering encouragement or hope to those who weren't religious.
Michel Faber
#26. The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.
Benazir Bhutto
#27. From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent.
Edmund White
#28. Religion and faith are very personal matters. So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the Constitution of India.
Narendra Modi
#29. The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.
Thomas Pynchon
#30. I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book - our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion - towards nation.
Narendra Modi
#31. The holy book in the longest continuous use - the Talmud - commands the observant one to thank his maker every day that he was not born a woman.
Christopher Hitchens
#32. I hope one day God will reveal all the truths to people that He has never sent any Holy Book, nor did He create anything but chaos!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.
Pope Shenouda III
#34. Give yourself a break from any holy book; and
start looking at others as you want to be looked at.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#35. When you read a holy book, you emphasize that God exists.
When you see people, you sympathize their existence.
Mustafa SULTAN
#36. I don't believe in ONE holy book. I believe all books are holy. Of course, some books are holy shit.
John Raptor
#37. Deeds are stronger than words, and children are not biblical scholars. As long as they see girls and women treated as inferior by their faith, that's what they will learn, no matter what their holy book says.
Peter Wilkes
#38. Much of today's church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.
Bill Johnson
#39. I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons, the memory of whom has now passed away; but the Bible he was fain to leave subsisting.
Martin Luther
#40. The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward of heaven, but the rules of the holy books are out of date and often barbaric.
Richard Dawkins
#42. The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures.
George Herbert
#43. Holy men tell us life is a mystery.
They embrace that concept happily.
But some mysteries bite and bark
and come to get you in the dark.
Dean Koontz
#44. Hey, O Holy One, if the only people you want to read your book are the ones who already agree with everything in it, what was your point in the first place? Isn't the goal to reach non-believers?
Antony John
#45. Are the Holy Rollers playing at the fair?" "This lame scene? Nah." He kicked the ground. "They wouldn't book you?" "They said we sucked. But people thought Led Zeppelin sucked, too.
Kami Garcia
#46. People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy.
Jaggi Vasudev
#47. The Bible is the statute-book of God's Kingdom, wherein is comprised the whole body of the heavenly law, the perfect rules of a holy life, and the sure promises of a glorious one.
Ezekiel Hopkins
#48. Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.
Dennis Weaver
#49. USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.
Ambrose Bierce
#50. Ow! Dammit!"
"Watch your language. This is a holy place."
"Hah!" I grumbled. "If it's so holy, why don't they have a holy elevator? Or a holy librarian who can go fetch the blasted book for us?
Cecily White
#52. As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child; dream of books, make books and collect books.
Maurice Sendak
#53. It is He Who sent down to thee, in truth, the Book (Quran), confirming what went before it; and He sent down the Law (of Moses) and the Gospel (of Jesus) before this, as a guide to mankind, and He sent down the criterion (Quran) (of judgment between right and wrong). - Holy Quran 3:3
Anonymous
#54. She had saved herself for this, stored her love within her so that this book, which could not possibly have been written for any purpose but to crawl inside her and dwell there like a holy thing, so that this book would not be ashamed of her profligacy.
Catherynne M Valente
#55. Unto each one hath been prescribed a preordained measure, as decreed in God's mighty and guarded Tablets. All that which ye potentially possess can, however, be manifested only as a result of your own volition.
Baha'u'llah
#56. I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word. This proved meat indeed and drink indeed to my soul. I daily received fresh life, light and power from above.
George Whitefield
#57. In both the Holy Land of the New Testament and the promised land of the Book of Mormon, [our Savior] spent considerable time teaching and instructing and training His councils and council leaders, and then He sent them forth to share what they had learned with others.
M. Russell Ballard
#58. It's the third book of the Bible, called The Final Testament of the Holy Bible.My idea of what the Messiah would be like if he were walking the streets of New York today. What would he believe? What would he preach? How would he live? With who?
James Frey
#59. The saints show us that being a baptized Christian means living as a new creation, rejoicing in a life radically different from the status quo of the world. All the holy people, whose lives fill this book, show readers how to let the grace of God in the sacraments create their lives anew.
Stephen J. Binz
#60. They tell us the Book of Mormon states that Jesus was begotten of the Holy Ghost. I CHALLENGE THAT STATEMENT. The Book of Mormon teaches NO SUCH THING! NEITHER DOES THE BIBLE.
Joseph Fielding Smith
#61. The most revealing books are the Holy Koran and the Holy Bible. The Bhagavad Gita is a great book as well, and the works of Buddha. These are the major influences on the world.
RZA
#62. If you can't be flexible, you can't be led by the Holy Spirit." Ian O'Malley from upcoming book Recovered and Free.
Charlotte S. Snead
#63. I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.
William Jones
#64. If this was a book written by men who were inspired by the Holy Spirit, then its admonitions about sin were not applied cultural phobia.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#65. Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn't in you. Church can become a drab thing and the Bible an irksome Book if the Holy Spirit does not illuminate your soul with His indwelling presence.
Billy Graham
#66. Whatever good works ye send on before [death] ... ye shall find with God.
Elijah Muhammad
#67. How can we have revival when we value a book the early Church didn't have over the Holy Spirit they did have?
Kris Vallotton
#68. A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.
Ambrose Bierce
#69. I always carry the book of Holy Writ ... and something to read ...
Elizabeth Peters
#70. Book I. Containing a General View of the Subjects Treated in Holy Scripture.
Augustine Of Hippo
#71. Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no holy men, holidays or holy books and no agreed-upon canons of faith. In fact, the only thing you can get some Atheists to agree upon is that there is no god.
Darrel Ray
#74. To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Barbara Tuchman
#75. The sensation burst over her, flames and sparks, stars, and all that was holy. She clung to him, blinded by the sun above her, feeling like the light had entered her veins to sing through her book, lift her high above the earth.
Lecia Cornwall
#76. [The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?
Lawrence M. Krauss
#77. They Thought Themselves only a step lower than the gods,
proud in their power over heaven and earth.
They grew strong in their knowledge
but weak in their wisdom,
craving more and still more power,
crushing the defenseless.
_ Morrighan Book of Holy Text,Vol. IV
Mary E. Pearson
#78. Go to countries where you don't speak the language. Eat food that looks like you may not like it. Read all of the holy books.
Michael Skolnik
#79. If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.
Thomas A Kempis
#81. There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Robert E.Lee
#82. I do not believe in God. I have no religion. But this to me is as close to a church as I have known in this life. It is a holy place. With bookstores like this, I feel confident in saying that there will be a book business for a very long time.
Gabrielle Zevin
#83. I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your own theory. The fact that you end up literally burning twenty-two out of twenty-five books is beside the point.
Tom Peters
#85. I don't believe in burning holy books, but I am organizing a protest. I'll be burning all my Dennis Miller VHS cassettes as a special protest. I don't want to hear the introduction 'you may have seen our next comedian on the Hannity show'.
Andy Kindler
#86. It's no coincidence that the word 'holiday' suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.
Pico Iyer
#87. In classrooms and living rooms across the globe, an agnostic or an atheist may be heard to strenuously argue, 'But the Bible is just a book.' Similar arguments may be raised against other holy books. But they all are too ironic, by half. A book is the Bible.
Gerald Weaver
#88. Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief
Friedrich Nietzsche
#89. How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !
Arthur Schopenhauer
#90. Avoid the Holy Grail, the heroic journeys, the pursuit of a legend
that is not the life of the bookaneer, who must keep his eyes on the ground while other book people live by dreaming.
Matthew Pearl
#92. What holy cities are to nomadic tribes - a symbol of race and a bond of union - great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.
George Edward Woodberry
#93. Wal-mart started selling "Vampire Home Defense Kits", including holy water, crosses, stakes, mallets, and a book of quick blessings to bar vampires from your door. The fact that these kits were generally useless didn't bother me nearly as much as the idea of holy water being sold at wal-mart.
Molly Harper
#94. Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
Ambrose Bierce
#95. The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.
Anonymous
#96. The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder ... What power spiritual reading has to lead to a change of course, and to make even worldly people enter into the way of perfection.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#97. Forty minutes later, I leaned back in my chair, and looked at the thousand or so pages of manuscript towering on my desk. It hit me. Holy cow. This author had total control over this book. Total. And it was one of seven. One. Of. Seven.
Carla Bolte
#98. Bell, book, and candle, candle book and bell, forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell.
Anon you shall hear a hog grunt,a calf bleat, and an ass bray,
Because it is Saint Peter's holy day
Christopher Marlowe
#99. To Moses We gave the Book and sent a succession of messengers after him. We gave Jesus, son of Mary, clear signs and strengthened him with the Holy Spirit. But, whenever a messenger came to you with something which you did not desire, you grew arrogant, calling some liars and slaying others.
Anonymous
#100. Holy sea turtles!" - Arabella Valli, The Equinox (Book Two of the Summer Solstice Series)
K.K. Allen
