Quotes About Belief In The Bible

#1. If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

Voltaire

#2. I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

Isaac Newton

#3. It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#4. I was brought up in the presence of the Bible, and I remember with affection what it was like to hold a dogmatic position on the statements of Christian belief. I would now describe myself as a candid friend of Christianity

Diarmaid MacCulloch

#5. At age 14, my belief systems began to change about myself, about God, about humans, about values, and about moral standards. I also began to align myself with the principles that are laid down by the Creator in the book called the Bible.

Myles Munroe

#6. If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

Norman Vincent Peale

#7. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.

Anonymous

#8. The Bible has stood the test of time because it is divinely inspired by Almighty God, written in ink that cannot be erased by any man, religion,
or belief system.

Billy Graham

#9. There's a belief that you're supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don't see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

Joel Osteen

#10. I had believed the Bible always, but reading it now had nothing to do with belief. It was simply a description of the way things were
of hell and heaven, of how men act and how God acts.

Corrie Ten Boom

#11. The word of God is full of assurance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible's teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn't have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense?

Timothy Keller

#13. [The] faith spoken of in the Bible is not a matter of intellectual belief, but a matter of connecting experientially and substantively with the person of Truth, Jesus.

Karla Perry

#14. The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".

Peter Leithart

#15. Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.

Richard Cecil

#16. My soul crave to walk with the Creator.
My spirit sought to know the will of the Creator.
My mind seek to mediate on the Holy words spoken by the Creator.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

Peter McWilliams

#18. I'm half way to Heaven and half way to Hell with each breath I take in this mortal shell.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#19. I don't think He bargains."
"Oh yes He does. I may not be religious but I know my Bible. My mother saw to that. He bargains all right. But He's supposed to he just. If He wants belief He'd better provide some evidence.'
"That He exists?"
"That He cares.

P.D. James

#20. The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the poor.
The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the needy in distress.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. If Christians read the Holy Bible, they know the Lord Jesus Christ.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

George Bernard Shaw

#23. Newton produced three times as many theological papers than scientific. These manuscripts consistently recorded Newton's belief in the author of creation as one and the same as the author of the Law and prophecy contained in the Bible.

David Flynn

#24. The giving up of (a belief in) witchcraft is in effect the giving up of (a beilief in) the Bible.

John Wesley

#25. It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Paine

#26. Know will of God and keep to His ways.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. The inerrancy debate is based on the belief that the Bible is the word of God, that the Bible is true because God made it and gave it to us as a guide to truth. But that's not what the Bible says.

Doug Pagitt

#28. Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.

Barack Obama

#29. Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it.

Jeffrey Tayler

#30. It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

William James

#31. The Bible is clear: Truth exists. It can be known. And when we ground our beliefs in it, we are rational.

Patty Houser

#32. The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if you say, I believe in God, you have already suggested the possibility of not believing in him. [p.250]

Northrop Frye

#33. I taught Bible Study, and there was period where I thought all of my beliefs were right, and everybody who disagreed with me was wrong.

Moby

#34. Contrary to popular belief, there aren't that many descriptions of hell in the Bible, and the majority of images most people carry around in their heads are from the fourteenth-century poem, which means that our contemporary view of hell is actually from the Middle Ages.

Craig Johnson

#35. Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.

Bono

#36. You need to identify the values that come out of that kind of belief system, because I don't see them. All the polls I look at say, for example, that adultery is committed as much in the Bible Belt as in any other part of the country. The same goes for abortion, child abuse, spouse abuse or murder.

John Shelby Spong

#37. We rarely read the Bible to discover truth; more often, we wish to harmonize it with our belief system and see its meaning in light of our preconceived theological system

Anonymous

#38. Daily mediate on the Holy Scriptures.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. All Scriptures gives hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#40. What is it the Bible teaches us? - repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

Thomas Paine

#41. If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#42. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible in the coming year. It's my firm belief that the enduring values, as I say, presented in its pages have a great meaning for each of us and for our nation.

Ronald Reagan

#43. What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.

David Dark

#44. {In a letter to his friend Rudolf Wagner}

I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#45. I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.

Anonymous

#46. If you read the Scriptures, you know thy Creator and thy soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita