Quotes About The King James Bible

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

Richard Dawkins

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. It's the Olympics. And it was a long way for me. To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.

Adelina Sotnikova

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

Calvin Coolidge

#12. For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!

Dominic West

#13. Deanna's whole existence was a walking, talking testament to the fact we were supposed to treat our lives like gifts and live every moment to bursting.

Amy Lamont

#14. 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

#15. Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence ... Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.

William Ellery Channing

#16. What can be used to heal, can also be used to hurt.

Brownell Landrum

#17. If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

Frederick Douglass

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

Anonymous

#19. He loves his Uncle Bi," Kelsey said ...
Brian gave Ian a death look. "If you tell Ghost he calls me Bi, I swear to Christ I will fire you.

Cherrie Lynn

#20. Across the nation, thousands of people are lining up in hospital waiting rooms, out the doors, down the steps, around the corners, and behind the hedges, waiting for their inoculations. Here's another idea for avoiding the flu: don't stand outside in the cold for hours around lots of other people.

Jon Stewart

#21. I ain't going to say everything I touch turns to gold or camouflage. I've got to work hard to keep what I've got. Nothing comes easy to me. It never has.

Boo Weekley

#22. I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.

Zig Ziglar

#23. 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

#24. If I'm going to represent God I have to do it the best I can.

Cliff Richard

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

David Norton

#26. Because i do not travel the same road as you does not mean i am lost.

Mark T. Barnes

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

John Zelazny

#28. 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