Quotes About In The Bible

#1. It's interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It's as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.

Donald Miller

#2. One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.

N. T. Wright

#3. But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it, his acts are folly. If you wanna be a fool, help yourself, it's not my problem.

RZA

#4. As it says in the Bible, For now we through a glass, darkly; but then face to face.
If it is face to face, there must be two looking.

Margaret Atwood

#5. The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.

Patti Smith

#6. Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. Men and women may devise plans to satisfy their inner longings, but in the midst of all the "religions" of the world, God's way is available in the Bible for all who will come to Him on His terms.

Billy Graham

#8. Growing up in the Bible Belt of Texas, I thought for sure there was no way - if I'm 100 percent true to myself and come out as a gay, African-American person in 2015 - that people are going to be able to accept that and understand it.

Todrick Hall

#9. As so many people in the Bible did, tell God exactly how you feel.

Rick Warren

#10. The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.

D. A. Carson

#11. The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success.

Richard Cecil

#12. I find something new in the Bible every time I read it ... that can be the experience of everyone who comes to it wanting to discover more of God's truth.

Billy Graham

#13. What Jerry has done, in a masterful way, is go through and select portions of the Scripture and put words in Jesus' mouth that are legitimate because they already appear in the Bible.

Tim LaHaye

#14. There's a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we're to watch for, and when these signs all converge at one place we can be sure that we're close to the end of the age.

Billy Graham

#15. People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong.

Benjamin Clementine

#16. Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.

Lafcadio Hearn

#17. We can't allow, in my perception, our traditions, which in the Bible are really looked down upon, to stop, literally, the potential of the gospel reaching the youth of America.

Stephen Baldwin

#18. There are 365 "fear nots" in the Bible. One for every day of the year. Today I will fear not.

Robin Jones Gunn

#19. Fear is a scheme that the devil uses to great effect. From my personal study, the words "do not be afraid" or "fear thee not" (depending on the Bible translation) appear over one hundred times in the Bible! The message from God is quite clear: we need not be afraid!

Pedro Okoro

#20. Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Christopher Hitchens

#21. I'd like to be remembered as the sower of seeds. That's the greatest parable in the bible as far as I'm concerned. Some seeds fall in the pathway, get stomped on and don't grow. Some fall on the stones and don't even sprout, but others fall on the ground and multiply a thousand fold.

Pete Seeger

#22. A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science; this is where the struggle of the Church against doctrines of Galileo and Darwin belongs.

Albert Einstein

#23. It is pretty clear in the Bible story that the whale swallowing Jonah wasn't meant as a punishment from God, it was God saving him from drowning. So it was actually provision to give him a second chance. The whale itself was the start of Jonah's second chance.

Phil Vischer

#24. The plan of salvation as stated in the Bible can be seen through observation of the universe around us.

Hugh Ross

#25. When we see only what we want to see in the Bible, it loses all power to transform us.

Jim Cymbala

#26. In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat chicken, we have to kill to eat. But at the same time, hunting is a sport. I think it is a great sport ... I would say most hunters are Christian men.

Luke Scott

#27. You're looking for counselors, there are 66 in the Bible.

Eric Ludy

#28. There is a tension in the Bible between justice and mercy, between the Old Testament and the New Testament. And the New Testament says you can never be good enough: goodness is the thing, and you can never live up to it. The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time.

Paul Kalanithi

#29. Greenberg tells me, "Never blame a text from the Bible for your behavior. It's irresponsible. Anybody who says X, Y, and Z is in the Bible - it's as if one says, 'I have no role in evaluating this.'" The

A. J. Jacobs

#30. Not to decide is to decide not to, nowhere in the bible does it promise tomorrow.

Billy Graham

#31. The world will end before there is another .400 hitter ... I think that was mentioned in the Bible.

Lenny Dykstra

#32. How can we call ourselves a church and not believe in healing and in miracles? I cannot read four pages anywhere in the Bible without encountering miracles! And the God of the bible is the same today!

T.L. Osborn

#33. If it is in the Bible, it is so. It's not even to be prayed about. It's to be received and acted upon. Inactivity is a robber which steals blessings. Increase comes by action, by using what we have and know. Your life must be one of going on from faith to faith.

Smith Wigglesworth

#34. Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#35. The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.

Rebecca West

#36. In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.

Hans Kung

#37. WHATEVER your especial need may be, you may readily find some promise in the Bible suited to it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#38. Saying nothing was preferable to saying too much. Well versed in the Bible, Lincoln may also have remembered the lines from Isaiah: "You silence the uproar of foreigners; as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is stilled."102

Harold Holzer

#39. If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.

Valerie June

#40. There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.

John Piper

#41. The existence of the devil is so clearly taught in the Bible that to doubt it is to doubt the Bible itself.

Chip Ingram

#42. I'm not a dogmatic Christian and I don't believe in the Bible literally, but I realized that Jesus is basically a very Zen dude.

Weyes Blood

#43. The practice of shaving makes its first appearance in the Bible in connection with the story of Joseph, who as a young man was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt, where he was subsequently imprisoned on false charges.

Meir Soloveichik

#44. Calling in the Bible is a central and dynamic theme that becomes a metaphor for the life of faith itself.

Os Guinness

#45. Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven.

Robert Charles Wilson

#46. There is a great superficiality in today's evangelical world. Many Bible-believing Christians share the contemporary case for self-gratification, emotionalism, and anti-intellectualism. Many people who believe in the Bible have never read it.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#47. As it says in the Bible, God fights on the side with the heaviest artillery.

Robert A. Heinlein

#48. I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence Was there ever a more galling verse in the Bible?

Sue Monk Kidd

#49. If the bible myth of Jonah in the whale and the Mother Goose myth of Jack and the Beanstalk were switched at birth so that Jack in the Beanstalk were in the bible, do you think any child would notice?

Bill Maher

#50. In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed ... We are to run it with patience.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#51. [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

#52. When Bird came on the scene, it was just as shocking as in the Bible: everything was dark, and then the light appeared for the first time.

Shorty Rogers

#53. I really think the Bible is a baseline where all stories come from. All of the zillion stories in the Bible provide inspiration for everything.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

#54. World events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. It's being fulfilled every day round about us.

Billy Graham

#55. The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity, fill them with compassion and cause them to feel after the wants of those who are in distress.

Brigham Young

#56. Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.

Lillian Hellman

#57. Theological Seminary, points out that the sin of Sodom is mentioned several times elsewhere in the Bible, but never in connection with homosexual acts.

Jack Rogers

#58. Jesus is supposed to be the Alpha and the Omega, but in the Bible he's neither. He's stuck in the middle like the letter Q.

Jim Adam

#59. And among adults, adultery is an unmentionable thing, which only occurs in the Bible and in Mobile.

Michael McDowell

#60. It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#61. I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God.

Charles Darwin

#62. In the Bible, man is only free to submit or be damned. His one freedom is the renunciation of that freedom. He finds his "salvation" by freely accepting his subjugation. The Christian ideal, says Saint Paul, is to be freely "subservient to God" (Romans 6:22).

Alain De Benoist

#63. The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

Elliott Abrams

#64. Your spiritual life needs food ... where do you find [this]? In the Bible, the Word of God. The Bible reveals Christ, who is the Bread of Life for your hungry soul, and the Water of Life for your thirsty heart.

Billy Graham

#65. We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people. The same way we have learned to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation.

Dan Savage

#66. I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#67. There is no record in the Bible of a weak man falling.

Johnny Hunt

#68. In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments.

Israel Shenker

#69. I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.

Charles Darwin

#70. The word Gospel is from the Anglo-Saxon godspell, meaning "good news." Ultimately the word comes from the Greek euangelion, also meaning "good news." Gospel can mean the good news preached by Jesus, or the good news preached about Jesus. These two meanings are the ones found in the Bible.

Anonymous

#71. If you look in the Bible there's no birthdays.

Prince

#72. If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.

Mordecai Richler

#73. The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life.

Ernie Hudson

#74. I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs.

Peter Agre

#75. you will hear and see me in the Bible in fresh ways. Just don't look for rules and principles; look for relationship - a way of coming to be with us.

William Paul Young

#76. There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

Isaac Newton

#77. Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible,

Philip Jenkins

#78. I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians - they would ask us, "What's the shortest verse in the Bible?" and I was the one who always said "John 11:35" straightaway. It stayed with me, the Bible has stayed with me.

Benjamin Clementine

#79. Funny thing, every time an angel appeared to someone in the Bible, the first thing he'd say was, "Fear not." ... I guess they were pretty spectacular.

Gilbert Morris

#80. Every scene of heaven in the Bible shows us a vision of the Church praying together and singing together and praising together.

Scot McKnight

#81. If you actually read the Bible, you can see there's a whole lot more information in there than the way we interpret the Bible. Because there are single lines in the Bible where if you just take them at face-value, they don't make any sense whatsoever in the world we see, we know, and we understand.

Russell Crowe

#82. I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.

Martin Buber

#83. Nothing in the Bible encourages us to give sex the exalted status it has in our culture, as if finding our purpose, our identity, and our fulfillment all rest with what we can or cannot do with our private parts.

Kevin DeYoung

#84. Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years.

Bill Hicks

#85. I don't see anywhere in the Bible where it says you shouldn't get breast implants.

Carrie Prejean

#86. There are at least four distinct lines of proof in the Bible that the Holy Spirit is a person.

R.A. Torrey

#87. What is the ultimate solution to the origin of the Universe? The answers provided by the astronomers are disconcerting and remarkable. Most remarkable of all is the fact that in science, as in the Bible, the world begins with an act of creation.

Robert Jastrow

#88. They say love is eternal...They say love is enduring. It always protects,always trust,always hopes,always perseveres.Love never fails...It is one of my favorite passages in the bible...There is a quality about that kind of love that transcends our mortal understanding.

K.J. Kilton

#89. I believe there's something in the Bible about 'Thou shalt not call anyone insane who owns and is competent with more firearms than you own sharp sticks.'

Andrew Plotkin

#90. God says in the bible that we should love our neighbor and he created us all as equals. I know in my heart that gays and lesbians should have the same government rights that Spencer and I will when we get married. So, yes, this blonde Christian believes in gay marriage.

Heidi Montag

#91. Consider Palin for President? The most powerful job on earth? You don't give the dumb cheerleader the Uzi. That's in the Bible.

Christopher Titus

#92. Some of the strongest warnings about judgment in the Bible come from the lips of Jesus.

Billy Graham

#93. There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'

Ray Charles

#94. Over a quarter of the words in the Bible appear just once, and of these no less than 289 belong to roots used only once in BH.

Angel Saenz-Badillos

#95. In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

Malcolm X

#96. There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.' And what brings me peace is the scripture.

Tammy Faye Bakker

#97. To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible ... it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it.

John Quincy Adams

#98. We don't have to debate about what we should think about homosexual activity, it's written in the Bible.

Ted Haggard

#99. If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.

Pat Robertson

#100. In the Bible, we have the facts and history of man's redemption. Incidentally or essentially, other worlds and other beings are brought prominently on the stage of redemption purposes and plans.

Edward McKendree Bounds