Quotes About Youth Bible

#1. When a mere girl, my mother offered me a dollar if I would read the Bible through; ... despairing of reconciling many of its absurd statements with even my childish philosophy, ... I became a sceptic, doubter, and unbeliever, long ere the 'Good Book' was ended.

Elmina Drake Slenker

#2. The Bible had been the weapon of choice in the spiritual gladiatorial arena of my youth. I knew how, wielded with intent and precision, the Bible can cut deeply, while on the one holding it can claim with impunity that this is from God.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#3. The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

Benjamin Rush

#4. What better gift for a manipulator that indifference?

Miguel El Portugues

#5. I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.

Jayson Blair

#6. Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.

Georgette Heyer

#7. We can't allow, in my perception, our traditions, which in the Bible are really looked down upon, to stop, literally, the potential of the gospel reaching the youth of America.

Stephen Baldwin

#8. In fact, had it been given to our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the concsciences of others, we should be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, than according to what he thinks.

Victor Hugo

#9. My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.

Milan Kundera

#10. Someone who doesn't know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.

Shannon A. Thompson

#11. By forbidding Jews to destroy their hair, the Bible warns them away from seeking the siren song of eternal youth. By encouraging Jews to grow beards, it reminds them that they will not be young forever, that they must prepare the ground for those who come after, just as their fathers did for them.

Meir Soloveichik

#12. There is no medicine like hope ...

Orison Swett Marden

#13. Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.

Sheila Jeffreys

#14. Through me, I see you. Through you, I see me.

Tehya Sky

#15. When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

Mark Twain

#16. I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.

Wen Ho Lee

#17. The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.

Novalis

#18. Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him.

Terry Zwigoff

#19. I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.

Jim George

#20. When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.

Eileen Myles

#21. Usually the most we feared from humans was either running into crazy slayer types

Richelle Mead

#22. People often think the Devil tries to influence people to do "bad things." While this is true, the demonic strategy is also much deeper. He tries to tempt us to get our needs met without relationship and without humility, the way he wanted to in the beginning.

Henry Cloud