Quotes About Not Reading The Bible

#1. Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#2. I desperate desire to read the Holy Scriptures is spirituality of the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. I like to read a couple books at once. I was reading the Princess Diana book. I'm reading a book about Chicago and the mob. Right now I'm also reading the Bible, beginning to end. I'm very religious. That's how I've gotten to where I am.

Heidi Montag

#4. The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.

Oswald Chambers

#5. Daily mediate on the Holy Scriptures.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

Jupiter Hammon

#7. Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#8. Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

Elizabeth George

#9. I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.

Richard Dawkins

#10. I love to read books. I love to read anything really, even the back of the cereal box.

But there is nothing that will ignite your soul like reading God's Word.

Rachel Wojnarowski

#11. The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

Thomas Paine

#12. The word of God is an immense wealth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Reading our Bible is actually fundamental, but there is more if we are going to walk in His truth. Even if we read the Bible, if we do not read it by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, we will not understand it correctly.

Rick Joyner

#14. Daily mediate the Holy Scriptures.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. 'I'm looking for a loop-hole,' he explained.

W.C. Fields

#16. First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin Thighs in 30 Days, for example. Also The Bible.

Dave Barry

#17. I recall the Scriptures into my mind, therefore, I have hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. Mediation on the Scriptures will renew your mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. So many people mistakenly take the Bible as a mere reading book! They read it every now and then! Well, that's a noble thing to do, but a more solemn way is to see the Bible as not just a reading book, but a true practical book for true worshipers, and live it as such!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. Reading the Bible for spiritual transformation is not a one-sided endeavor: it is a dialogue of human spirit and Holy Spirit.

Richard J. Foster

#21. Reading the Bible responsibly and respectfully today means learning what it meant for ancient Israelites to talk about God the way they did, and not pushing alien expectations onto texts written long ago and far away.

Peter Enns

#22. If we are not being moved in heart and moved to new places in life - new levels of obedience to God - we are not really reading the Bible the way God wants us to.

George H. Guthrie

#23. I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.

J.C. Ryle

#24. It's not the amount of Bible you read, it's the amount of Bible you believe.

Carlos A. Rodriguez

#25. I'm not so sure reading Scripture will keep us from having to face trouble as much as it will focus our attention on our Help in those times. The Bible's full of stories about good folks with troubles. Good folks. God-fearin' folks.

Mona Hodgson

#26. Any serious reading of the Bible means personal involvement in it, not symbol mental agreement with abstract propositions. And involvement is dangerous, because it leaves one open to unforeseen conclusions.

Megan McKenna

#27. There's this thing that I like to call the RC Sproul principle of hermenutics.
When you're reading the bible and you come across someone doing something really stupid, don't say to yourself "I'm glad I'm not him". Ask yourself "How am I that stupid?

R.C. Sproul Jr.

#28. The moment you don't feel like praying, get on your knees. And the moment you don't feel like reading your bible, you'd better get that Book open.

Lori Wick

#29. Not that the study is not important. A Jewish rabbi I once studies with would often say, 'For us Jews studying the bible is more important than obeying it because if you don't understand it rightly you will obey it wrongly and your obedience will be disobedience.

This is also true.

Eugene H. Peterson

#30. Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference to other parts of the Bible.

John Piper

#31. I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six.

Simon Newcomb

#32. The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.

James Merritt

#33. When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".

Soren Kierkegaard

#34. It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Horace Greeley

#35. I do not understand why reading the Bible in public should make others feel uncomfortable ... it may be such an example that serves to remind them of the Book they have neglected.

Billy Graham

#36. 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

#37. I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a keen interest in religion for someone who's not religious.

Jim Jefferies

#38. The Bible does say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Preaching, music, the reading of the Word-these things are fine-but they must never override prayer as the defining mark of God's dwelling.

Jim Cymbala

#39. When asked, 'What is more important: praying or reading the Bible?' I ask, 'What is more important: breathing in or breathing out?

Russ Scalzo

#40. I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world.

Erri De Luca

#41. The Bible is the greatest literature of all times.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#42. I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God and how it relates to us and how we can change to become more like him.

Bernhard Langer

#43. Remember when Jesus was hanging out with that one dude that kept messing up his life with sin and Jesus was like "You are a dumb sinner, I am totally going to judge you!"

Yeah, me neither. I wonder sometimes if all Christians are really reading the same Bible.

Jonathan Welton

#44. gets up very early each morning and spends two or three hours in prayer and then an hour or two reading the Bible.

K.P. Yohannan

#45. I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist.

Margot Kidder

#46. I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely.

Lolo Jones

#47. Did Gran go to a gynecologist? That is totally weird. I never thought about my grandmother's vagina before. I don't want to be thinking about my grandmother's vagina. Not here, at her funeral. In a church. While i'm doing a reading from the Bible.

Meg Cabot

#48. I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same.

Steven Wright

#49. The two authors she brought with her from that period of reading were Whitman and Thoreau - but then, she had been reading them for years, as some people read the Bible.

Doris Lessing

#50. When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.

Anne Graham Lotz

#51. Tell me what a man does in the matter of Bible-reading and praying, in the matter of Sunday, public worship, and the Lord's Supper, and I will soon tell you what he is, and on which road he is travelling.

J.C. Ryle

#52. A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.

Immanuel Kant

#53. I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.

Ruth Hurmence Green

#54. The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous.

Robertson Davies

#55. I really started to get into reading the Bible and I started to look for a church to go to. Every Sunday I was going to like three or four churches, I was just looking for the right church.

Angus T. Jones

#56. It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

Rod Parsley

#57. Ninety-five percent of the difficulties you will experience as a Christian can be traced to a lack of Bible study and reading.

Billy Graham

#58. Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it's when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.

Steve Maraboli

#59. Universal literacy, taken for granted today, was a direct result of the Reformation's reemphasis upon the centrality of Bible reading,

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#60. For I aint, you must know,' said Betty, 'much of a hand at reading writing-hand, though I can read my Bible and most print. And I do love a newspaper. You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the Police in different voices.

Charles Dickens

#61. Give yourself to reading.' ... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,
especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#62. Those who do succeed in reading the Bible from beginning to end will discover that at least it has a beginning and an end, and some traces of a total structure.

Northrop Frye

#63. Hold fast to the word of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#64. If this is not already a habit of yours, now is the time to begin reading a portion of the Bible every day. Ideally, read it together as husband and wife - in the morning, perhaps, or before bed.

Alex Kendrick

#65. I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.

Ted Cruz

#66. It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.

Henry Allen Ironside

#67. I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.

Tom Perrotta

#68. Make a daily effort to nourish your soul with inspiration from the Bible for personal growth and transformation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#69. In America, we have bible-reading applications: every single one of those applications asks permission to turn on your microphone, your camera; it wants permission to read your e-mails and the right to send e-mails wherever it chooses.

John McAfee

#70. In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.

R.C. Sproul Jr.