Quotes About Who Wrote The Bible

#1. You don't know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I'm the little jew who wrote the Bible.
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engine of survival.

Leonard Cohen

#2. I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,." Even the people who wrote the Bible knew that. They told stories, like the story of Noah.

Don Hewitt

#3. Bookshop Customer: 'Who wrote the bible?'
Customer's friend: 'Jesus.

Jen Campbell

#4. The Bible is not a set of instructions that can give us simple answers," wrote Webber, "nor a text with which to prove points ... . The guidance the Bible gives was provided for a society very different from ours ... and any set of words is open to different interpretations.

Sara Miles

#5. 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

#6. If you want to be a strong, maturing Christian, your first priority is to develop a closer relationship with God.

Jim George

#7. Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He listed 275 men of the cloth who used the Bible to prove that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals.

James A. Haught

#8. When you're an actor, you're so busy: people are always coming up to you and pulling your collar, making sure that things fit, brushing your hair and you're always being yanked up, so finally when you're behind a camera, you're just a slob.

Clint Eastwood

#9. I have fun. I enjoy my life. And I was hardwired for a deep connection between service, God, and happiness. You kind of need all of those things to be in play for one to have the others.

Will Smith

#10. I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's flawed, I wrote it. All of that goes into the mix, but I love the controversy. It elevates the conversation.

William P. Young

#11. We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books.

J.A. Konrath

#12. Ever feel like God wrote a part of the Bible just for you?

Karen Kingsbury

#13. Forgiveness is the most effective way of dealing with arguments; altruism and forgiveness bring humanity together so that no conflict, however serious, will go beyond the bounds of what is truly human.

Dalai Lama

#14. I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph Campbell, who I love. He wrote The Hero of a Thousand Faces. It's about exploring what is heroic in you. It helps me a lot.

Viola Davis

#15. The Bible says, 'If any would not work, neither should he eat.' Saint Paul wrote that, in Second Thessalonians, chapter three, verse ten,

Ken Follett

#16. Can you tie your cherry stem into a knot, boys?

Kali Willows

#17. All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait.

Evan Esar

#18. It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

William Mackergo Taylor

#19. Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love.

Heinrich Heine

#20. It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

Frederick Forsyth

#21. Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

Baron De Montesquieu

#22. All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken in, conned, and left bewildered by them. A good psychopath can play a concerto on anyone's heart strings.

Robert D. Hare

#23. Every time we say it 'last time', actually it is not.
#fact

Lovely Goyal

#24. We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

Anatole France

#25. The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.

Leland Ryken

#26. Writers are married to their keyboards, as to their passports.

Adam Gopnik

#27. If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.

Heather O'Neill