Top 100 Quotes About Reading The Bible
#2. 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
#3. When asked, 'What is more important: praying or reading the Bible?' I ask, 'What is more important: breathing in or breathing out?
Russ Scalzo
#4. 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
#5. 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.
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.
James Merritt
#12. 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
#13. Ultimately I think the difference between reading the Bible and studying it is making the connections between who Jesus is and what he's done.
Mark Driscoll
#14. I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.
Austin Peck
#15. It is this personal knowledge that is the basis of discipleship, and it involves more than reading the Bible, memorizing Scripture, and praying. It is intimately walking in communion with the Father through living, loving, and spending time with God.
Robby Gallaty
#16. People reading the Bible for the first time are often surprised to discover how much human drama it contains. Almost every conceivable human dilemma and conflict is reflected in its pages.
Billy Graham
#17. I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.
Amy Grant
#18. Bonhoeffer's permanent legacy as a theologian has been to show that in the modern world, as in Josiah's and Huldah's Jerusalem, fostering the discomfiting yet life-giving practice of reading the Bible against ourselves is a major public responsibility of the Christian teacher and theologian.
Ellen F. Davis
#19. You ought to pray and read the Bible concurrently. You cannot pray effectively without reading the Bible and the vice versa.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#20. I believe the fast track to atheism is reading the Bible. I've read it three times all the way through. It's a big part of our culture, a big part of our history. I don't just read things I agree with.
Penn Jillette
#21. I love reading the Bible. It makes sense of the whole world
Karen Kingsbury
#22. Thinking you can earn eternal life by just reading the Bible a lot is like staring at the windshield while driving, hoping you'll get where you want to go. The windshield isn't there to be looked at; it is designed to be looked through.
Jefferson Bethke
#23. The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.
Mark Twain
#24. I should have never taught you girls to read! I suspect you have been reading the Bible behind my back-that is enough to fill a girl's head with folly?
Anne Fortier
#25. Trying to understand God's will for anything without reading the Bible is like jumping into the middle of a cricket match without knowing any of the rules and never having watched a game.
Vance C. Kessler
#26. I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every day. I enjoy reading now, and there is a whole world of books out there to explore.
Roger McGuinn
#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. I gave my heart to Jesus. I accepted him as my Lord and Savior, started reading the Bible, started going to a church (and) started a relationship with Jesus.
Patricia Mauceri
#29. I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word.
Billy Graham
#30. I'm looking for loopholes. (Said when caught reading the Bible.).
W.C. Fields
#32. One must either stop reading the Bible altogether, or else leave off spending one's whole time in just doing easy pleasant things one likes to do.
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
#33. As I got older, I got closer to my faith and I got closer to Jesus, reading the Bible and living my life under God.
Antonio Sabato Jr.
#34. Reading the Bible has a purifying effect upon the heart and mind. As you read, the Holy Spirit will enlighten the passages for you.
Billy Graham
#35. If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.
Lauryn Hill
#36. Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does
Rob Bell
#37. The danger of Christians reading the Bible confessionally is that we run the risk of reading alone.
Ellen F. Davis
#38. I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way
Cotton Mather
#39. I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.
Nick Cave
#40. We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.
William Brewster
#41. The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.
Billy Graham
#42. While we are often willing to spend time reading the Bible, praying, or participating in church programs and services, few of us recognize the importance of becoming good Christian case makers.
J. Warner Wallace
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.
Rick Warren
#47. You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
William Lyon Phelps
#49. A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
Immanuel Kant
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist.
Margot Kidder
#61. 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
#62. Make a daily effort to nourish your soul with inspiration from the Bible for personal growth and transformation.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#63. 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
#64. 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
#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. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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.
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#76. 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
#78. 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
#80. The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
Thomas Paine
#81. 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.
#82. Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.
Elizabeth George
#83. Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#85. 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
#86. I desperate desire to read the Holy Scriptures is spirituality of the soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. Many who read their Bibles make the great mistake of confining all their reading to certain portions of the Bible which they enjoy. In this way they get no knowledge of the Bible as a whole. They miss altogether many of the most important phases of Bible truth.
R.A. Torrey
#90. The Bible wasn't meant to be read; it was meant to be prayed. Start reading, and God will start speaking. And that's when you need to stop reading and start praying.
Mark Batterson
#91. You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible? Hmm?
I will tell Him that His press agents could have done with a writing lesson or two, I said. To myself.
Jennifer Donnelly
#92. Are you reading your Bible?"
Ah, well ... I was."
And then you quit."
You got it."
Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance.
Jan Karon
#94. The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
Dallas Willard
#95. I also able to graciously survive the PhD from the grace, which comes from prayer, bible reading, extensive story reading, fasting, fellowship, listen to music, daily dance and sacred writing.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#96. 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
#97. Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#98. The world's sewage system threatens to contaminate the stream of Christian thought. Satan will contest every hour you spend in Bible reading or prayer.
Billy Graham
#99. I am doing a lot of work for my church, taking an evangelism class, doing a lot of reading - mostly the Bible and things that coordinate with the Bible and go with the evangelism class.
Angus T. Jones
#100. Most students don't trust their own insights and questions when they are reading a biblical assignment. They expect that there must be a point, a right reading that they're missing, and that they don't have the authority to suggest any other interpretation.
Timothy Beal
