Top 100 Quotes About The Bible
#1. He told m the best advice he could ever give me is all in this book. We need God's constant help and blessings. Both are in the pages of the Bible.
Rebecca DeMarino
#2. In the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#4. The God of the Bible takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself
Timothy Keller
#5. I did not read the Bible today. I am not very good at being religious and don't really feel too bad about not being too good. I do wish that I loved God and His creatures more ...
Rich Mullins
#6. As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality.
William A. Dembski
#7. The Bible was given to us not to increase our knowledge but to change our life.
Steve Shadrach
#8. [The Bible] warns us about "the little foxes, that spoil the vines" [Song of Solomon 2:15 KJV]. This is a picture of the way "little" sins
can destroy our fruitfulness for the Lord.
Billy Graham
#9. It's essential that we learn how to defend the Bible and the Christian faith for our sake and our children's. If we don't, the empty and obsolete churches in England will foreshadow the future in America.
Ken Ham
#10. To preach biblically means much more than to preach the truth of the Bible accurately. It also means to present that truth the way the biblical writers and speakers presented it.
Zack Eswine
#11. He doesn't believe the dead need our prayers, nor can they use them. But anyone who knows the Bible as he does, knows that our God is a capricious God, and there's no harm in hedging your bets.
Hilary Mantel
#12. Her father said it took at least five years to learn law after one left law school: one practiced economy for two years, learned Alabama Pleading for two more, reread the Bible and Shakespeare for the fifth.
Harper Lee
#13. The story of Hosea and Gomer is the second most powerful picture of God's love in the Bible. Other than Christ's death, there is no greater picture of love.
Jud Wilhite
#14. I don't have a religion. I ain't nothing wrong with church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran, I read the Kabalah, I read the Bible. They all got the same three basic principles: Love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and ... As far as me being, I live by those principles.
Kevin Gates
#15. Understand this: The Bible presents Christ. You have an inner sense of an indwelling Lord. You either have that or you do not. The man God needs will live in a vital, living relationship with Jesus Christ.
Gene Edwards
#16. The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the infant born at Bethlehem, the Legislator and Savior of the world.
John Quincy Adams
#17. We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.
Steve Allen
#18. [People] do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself but because it contradicts them.
E. Paul Hovey
#19. It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell ... How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?
Milton Resnick
#20. The reason why Christians do not make use of their entitlement in Christ Jesus is ignorance, or as the Bible puts it beautifully, 'lack of knowledge'!
Pedro Okoro
#21. A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.
John Stott
#22. The Bible is chock-a-block with such unnecessary but beautiful antitheses. God, whatever his other failings, is a great rhetorician.
Mark Forsyth
#23. Whatever evil might come upon us, because we all came about out of love and care and the Bible and Mother Goose. What can stand against that?
Richard Kennedy
#24. Zionists believe they are entitled by God to the land, groves and homes of the non-Jewish underclass. They quote the Bible as the reference that 'God gave them the land.' The size of the alleged God-given land has never been determined and Israel's borders still remain fuzzy.
Lee Whitnum
#25. I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible."
"Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.
Ellen Raskin
#27. The Bible warns us clearly that we must not attack men of God no matter how sinful they may have become or wicked in our eyes.
Benny Hinn
#28. The Bible's picture of a godly leader also describes the godly home: "A shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock" (Isaiah 32:2). May that be true of your home.
Billy Graham
#29. I'm trying to get good message out to the people. It's like the scriptures because you know what the scriptures are in the bible. Words of Jah, words of Christ, words of Rasta and everything that's righteous are in the scriptures unto I and I.
Sizzla
#30. The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man therefore who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book may be assessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer.
Noah Webster
#31. Our current Western cultural plausibility structure elevates science and scorns and mocks religion, especially Christian teaching. As a result, believers in Western cultures do not as readily believe the supernatural worldview of the Bible in comparison with their Third World brothers and sisters.
J.P. Moreland
#32. But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other evidence as even a priest cannot deny; and show, from that evidence, that the Bible is not entitled to credit, as being the word of God.
Thomas Paine
#33. Some Christian leaders ... are willing to give up some of the teachings of the Bible in order to harmonize Christianity with the other religions.
Billy Graham
#34. I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith - any religion.
Elizabeth Vargas
#35. It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.
Penn Jillette
#36. In their effort to "guide" or maybe to control others, they try to balance the old law with the new freedom in Jesus. The Bible does not call it balance, it calls this mixture. Much of the New Testament is written about this mixture being taught in the church.
Timothy E. Pickering
#37. The "Gospel" is not a sermon title or the name of a book in the Bible. The Gospel is the person of Jesus Christ and it is the power of God to bring people to salvation. Romans 1:16
John Paul Warren
#38. No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
Walter Lang
#39. The Bible has been trapped in modernity. Everything has to work perfectly. And if everything doesn't fit in a Lego-oriented functionality, then we don't deal with it as Christians.
Erwin McManus
#40. When it comes to adding authority to the sermon, the Bible is the most powerful way to comment on what the Bible has to say.
Calvin Miller
#41. The easiest-to-read Bibles are called paraphrases. These can be very helpful, especially for young or first-time readers of the Bible. The best known of this type is The Living Bible.
Jeffrey Geoghegan
#42. Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire; and the secret of its freshness is that it is so largely compiled from the Scriptures.
Charles Spurgeon
#43. They don't take the Bible as a general thing, sailors don't; though I will say that I never saw the man at sea who didn't give it the credit of being an uncommon good yarn.
("Kentucky's Ghost")
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
#44. Repentance is mentioned seventy times in the New Testament ... the Bible says God commands repentance ... it is a command ...
God says, Repent! Or perish!
Billy Graham
#45. Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.
Brian D. McLaren
#46. The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.
Rick Warren
#47. Fifth, the redemptive-historical significance of marriage as a divine symbol in the Bible only works if the marital couple is a complementary pair.
Kevin DeYoung
#48. The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
Lynn Lavner
#49. Not one word about hell in the Bible would ever make you want to go there.
Billy Graham
#50. If you are serious about changing your life, you are going to have to get into the Bible.
Rick Warren
#51. We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church.
William Brewster
#52. Don't worry about what you do not understand ... Worry
about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not
live by.
Corrie Ten Boom
#53. Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
Clarence Darrow
#54. There is a story ... which is fairly well known, told about when missionaries came to Africa, that they had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. And then they said, "Let us pray," and we dutifully shut our eyes. And when we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible.
Desmond Tutu
#55. 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
#56. Jesus Christ will be the leader of an intergalactic earth evacuation. We're getting some earth leaders up there to check the mother ship. The Bible says that the sky will be glorious and Christ will come back to us all.
Nina Hagen
#58. 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
#60. People have been cherry-picking the Bible for millennia to justify their every impulse, moral and otherwise.
Sam Harris
#61. The Bible says a great deal about entire families coming to Christ. Rahab the harlot ... the Philippian jailer ... and Cornelius, the Roman centurion. That could be true in your family too. You may be the one who could lead your family to Christ.
Billy Graham
#62. Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book.
Ellen G. White
#63. The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible as the word of God, and in the Church (this Church or that) as the interpreter of that word.
Joseph Campbell
#64. We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.
William Brewster
#65. As I read the Bible, I seem to find holiness to be [Christ's] supreme attribute.
Billy Graham
#66. REALITY 4: GOD SPEAKS BY THE HOLY SPIRIT THROUGH THE BIBLE, PRAYER, CIRCUMSTANCES, AND THE CHURCH TO REVEAL HIMSELF, HIS PURPOSES, AND HIS WAYS.
Henry T. Blackaby
#67. I've read the Bible before, a couple of times cover to cover.
Trai Byers
#68. The Bible makes it clear that reason is not the front door of faith. It takes spiritual eyes to discern spiritual matters. But how do we develop spiritual eyes unless Christians engage the culture with those questions and paradigms of mindfulness out of which spiritual logic flows?
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#69. In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whether you're obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don't see any purpose for me in being ordained.
Anne Graham Lotz
#70. Sometimes, we
become so familiar with the primal sacred story of the Bible that we need some fresh takes on it, telling us the same thing in different ways, or giving us some new vantage points to see what was always there, things we'd missed before.
Brian D. McLaren
#71. The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.
Simon Schama
#72. Jesus didn't just give hugs; He also gave a hammer. Paul didn't just pass on holy kisses; he also tirelessly dealt out swift and holy kicks to the rear end of the ancient church. The Bible has the manly stuff intact, and that is why it is such a great mystery how it got lost in the modern church.
Eric Ludy
#73. Babel is a Biblical term for Babylon. The word is Semitic; Bab means gate and El means Cod, so Babel means 'Gate of God.' But it is probably also somewhat onomatopoeic, imitating someone
who speaks in an incomprehensible tongue. The Bible is full of puns.
Neal Stephenson
#74. The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
Tom Waits
#75. The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
Ellen G. White
#76. If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
Aleister Crowley
#77. You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock ... ' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness ... and laugh at persons who give in to them.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#78. Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.
Cecil B. DeMille
#79. The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North Whitehead
#80. Therefore, according to the Bible, the essence of a city was not the population's size but its density. A city is a social form in which people physically live in close proximity to one another.
Timothy Keller
#81. The big news of the Bible is not that you fight for God but that God fights for you.
Max Lucado
#82. They believe the bible is the exact word of God - Then they change the bible! Pretty presumptuous, hu huh? "I think what God meant to say ... "
Bill Hicks
#83. ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.
Frederick Buechner
#84. Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.
Billy Graham
#85. As the Bible inculcates upon man but one duty in respect to sin, and that is immediate repentance, abolitionists believe that all who hold slaves, or who approve the practice in others, should immediately cease to do so.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#86. Your poor lungs." "We're not gonna live long enough to get cancer. The Bible says there's just seven years of Tribulation after the Rapture.
Tom Perrotta
#87. Archbishop James Ussher of the Church of Ireland made a careful study of the Bible and other historical sources and concluded, in a hefty tome called Annals of the Old Testament, that the Earth had been created at midday on 23 October 4004 BC, an assertion
Bill Bryson
#88. Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.
Robert Charles Winthrop
#89. Lasting love extends grace. No relationship will make it without grace. The Bible tells us that this is part of love. You're not going to have a relationship unless you have forgiveness, mercy, patience, acceptance, grace. You've got to cut people some slack.
Rick Warren
#90. 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
#91. Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.
Elie Wiesel
#92. The Bible is God's law-word which must govern every sphere of life and thought.
Rousas John Rushdoony
#93. The Bible is a guidebook in the journey of life, and the only one that points the way to Heaven.
D.L. Moody
#94. According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.
Bill Vaughan
#95. I know the Bible isn't real because it never once mentions me.
Zach Braff
#96. One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.
Jon Meacham
#97. Build slowly if you must, but by all means, build. In pursuing an orderly process [of Bible study], you follow a pattern established by God himself. The God of the Bible is a God of order.
Jen Wilkin
#98. In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
Robert E.Lee
#100. Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one meta-narrative from Genesis to Revelation.
Roma Downey
