Quotes About King James Bible

#1. T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.

Adam Nicolson

#2. A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.

Richard Dawkins

#3. My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single morning. He made me memorize it and repeat verses at night before I went to sleep.

Jay Parini

#4. The real Stephen Colbert is a practicing Catholic. He teaches Sunday school. He can recite chapter and verse of chapter and verse - from both the King James Bible and 'The Lord of the Rings.'

Kevin Bleyer

#5. Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did.

Michael Ignatieff

#6. Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.

Ken Follett

#8. The packaging for music has become a sort of King James Bible, where it elevates the contents to something more spiritual. This is something else that drove me to a newspaper format. I thought, "Let's put it in a newspaper, to get away from that spiritual thing."

Stanley Donwood

#9. When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.

Etgar Keret

#10. when you have a lovely but bitter past with someone and happens to meet them. Keep it light. Keep it short. Most of all, keep them, away.

Adhitya Mulya

#11. Not exactly the manliest of confessions, but there it is.

Lauren Layne

#12. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord,
She shall be praised.
(Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version)

Anonymous

#13. I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.

Calvin Coolidge

#14. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand.

Psalms 139

#15. In the beginning, God..... Genesis 1:1

Anonymous

#16. Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.

Walt Whitman

#17. Unless you give it all you've got, there isn't any sense in playing,

Stan Musial

#18. If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

Leigh Hunt

#19. Long before there was ever a King James Version of our Bible, there was a gospel truth ... and long before doctrines and denominations, the preeminence of the gospel was already ripe to harvest. Before man had ever thought about creating symbols to represent spiritual things ... there was a gospel.

Chandel L. White

#20. Think not that delight and understanding dwell just across the Karthian hills, or in any spot thou canst find in a day's, or a year's, or a lustrum's journey.

H.P. Lovecraft

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

David Norton

#22. Read this book ... but understand it's fiction. And let life be ... your most important addiction.

John Zelazny