Quotes About Bible Translations

#1. Does anyone really think that America today is lacking preachers, books, Bible translations, and neat doctrinal statements? What we really lack is the passion to call upon the Lord until he opens the heavens and shows himself powerful.

Jim Cymbala

#2. Does it not seem strange that the generation with the most advanced technology and the easiest-to-read Bible translations is the weakest generation of Christians in the history of our country? Church attendance has never been lower, and the Christian influence in our culture never weaker.

A.W. Tozer

#3. In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace, called a mall, we should not abridge that right.

Sol Wachtler

#4. Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.

David Norton

#5. She was a dirty porn author, and God knows what evil she was harvesting,

Debra Anastasia

#6. When I grew up, I saw the moon landing, and I was fascinated watching them as a child, and that's what really turned me onto space and science fiction, and I started watching things like 'Lost In Space,' and that led me to 'Star Trek,' which was a major influence on my life.

Ronald D. Moore

#7. I read the different translations of the Bible they had and really just dove into it, almost so I could prove it all right.

Christian Hosoi

#8. The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me'.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. Hardy classified A Pair of Blue Eyes among 'Romances and Fantasies'. A favourite of Tennyson, its melancholy treatment of youth, love and death is expressive of late nineteenth-century susceptibilities. Not unnaturally in an early novel, Hardy draws freely on his own life.

Geoffrey Harvey

#10. I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.

Jennifer Donnelly

#11. It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies.

Billy Graham

#12. The shared secret of our second lives hangs between us, not like a weight, but like a lifeline.

Victoria Schwab

#13. The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when the word of God is infected by the hand of man, that is, written down, it is tainted.

Craig Ferguson

#14. We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#15. The afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall

John Green

#16. Translation is so important. The new American translations of the Bible sound like a Judith Krantz novel.

Rabih Alameddine