Quotes About Leviticus

#1. Well, Louie, you'll know then that Leviticus also tells us not to cut our beards, not to wear linen and wool together nor to eat crayfish or frogs or snails. I'm afraid that if we adhered to Leviticus the entire French nation would be an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.

Paula Boock

#2. If you like comedy, go home and curl up with Leviticus. The writers of The Onion are handed Leviticus on their first day.

Nick Offerman

#3. Taking a strange book seriously, Leviticus 18, 20

Kevin DeYoung

#4. With the exception of Leviticus and Numbers, written by the priestly classes, most of the Bible is written by or about people who are occupied, enslaved, poor or disenfranchised in some way!

Richard Rohr

#5. Leviticus 18 doesn't tell us everything we need to know about sex, but it gives us the basic rules: incest is bad (vv. 6-27); taking a rival wife is bad (v 18) ... adultery is bad (v 20); killing our children is bad (v 21); homosexuality activity is bad (v 22); and bestiality is bad (v 23).

Kevin DeYoung

#6. Treat them like native-born Israelites, and love them as you love yourself. Remember that you were once foreigners living in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. - Leviticus 19:34

Gary Chapman

#7. As delineated in the biblical book of Leviticus, Israel's atonement was achieved, year after year, through the sacrifices brought on that day by the high priest.

Meir Soloveichik

#8. People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.

Anne Rice

#9. Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.' (Leviticus 18:22). That means simply that it is foul to do to other men what men habitually, proudly, manfully do to women: use them as inanimate, empty, concave things; fuck them into submission; subordinate them through sex.

Andrea Dworkin

#10. Love your neighbor as yourself (Leviticus 19:18)

J.Z. Touitou

#11. Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

Bob Dylan

#12. I will place My residence among you, and I will not reject you. Leviticus 26:11

Beth Moore

#13. How can we pick and choose which parts of the Bible to follow? One thing is God's will and another is just cultural differences? What if it's all cultural? What if homosexuality or saving yourself for marriage is as outdated as women staying silent in church or Leviticus forbidding tattoos?

Trevor D. Richardson

#14. Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?

Barack Obama

#15. I was of course discussing the book of Leviticus. I don't know why your mind is so filthy these days, Bingley.

Marsha Altman

#16. Getting your license gives you the right to pick your nose in the car.

Taylor Hanson

#17. You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.

Pat Conroy

#18. Entering the house of God to dwell with God, beholding, glorifying and enjoying him eternally, I suggest, is the story of the Bible, the plot that makes sense of the various acts, persons and places of its pages, the deepest context for its doctrines.

L. Michael Morales

#19. I was happy with the umpiring in India last year, New Zealand is OK these days, and the only real area of concern is Pakistan. They seem to have a chip on their shoulders about their cricket there.

Allan Border

#20. The world belongs to passionate driven people.

Jack Welch

#21. Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#22. They placed me on a pedestal from the day I was born! What choice did I have but to be perfect!

Mary E. Pearson

#23. Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

Hippolyte Taine