Quotes On Why We Should Read The Bible

#1. If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that. - Author: Mark Driscoll

#2. Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible. - Author: Ronald Reagan

#3. 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. - Author: Steven Wright

#4. The Bible is the funniest book I have ever read. It's so funny! Right in the first six pages, it's funny! - Author: David Cross

#5. The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God's story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible. - Author: D. A. Carson

#6. If you don't read the Holy Bible, you don't stand a chance with the antichrist. - Author: Felix Wantang

#7. 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. - Author: Doris Lessing

#8. We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard. - Author: Karl Barth

#9. The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah's Witnesses. - Author: Cliff Richard

#10. For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant. - Author: Martin Luther

#11. I ended up getting on my knees right there in my bedroom. I didn't have a tract that had, you know, 'here's how you pray to receive Christ' on it. I had never seen a tract in my life. I had never read a Bible. - Author: Jim Hamilton

#12. The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life ... The Bible ... should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness. - Author: Benjamin Rush

#13. I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.' - Author: Billy Graham

#14. I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year ... My custom is, to read four to five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. I employs about an hour of my time ... - Author: John Quincy Adams

#15. The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it. - Author: Charles Spurgeon

#16. Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious duty, can often manage to evade a radically involved dialogue with the book they are questioning. - Author: Thomas Merton

#17. If you need a handbook for praise and worship, read Psalms. - Author: Jim George

#18. Most of the world around you doesn't read the Bible. So ... God gives the world a living epistle- you. - Author: Kay Arthur

#19. The drive was brief and the conversation limited, but oh, what a legacy of love! Father never read to me from the Bible about the good Samaritan. Rather, he took me with him and Uncle Elias in that old 1928 Oldsmobile and provided a living lesson I have always remembered. - Author: Thomas S. Monson

#20. A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides. - Author: Immanuel Kant

#21. Prayer and Bible study are inseparably linked. Effective prayer is born out of the prompting of God's Spirit as we read His Word. - Author: Billy Graham

#22. James Bond was an early favourite, although I didn't understand much of it. I read the Bible a lot, too. You might say that this was my favourite, since I seemed to read it so often. - Author: Philip Kerr

#23. When we open the Bible and read it, we are eavesdropping on an ancient spiritual journey. - Author: Peter Enns

#24. Read the Scripture to renew your mind.
Mediate on the Scripture to nourish your soul.
Affirm the Scripture to revive your spirit - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. Does God write?
No, never.
God speaks,
Never writes at all.
Gita was spoken
Bible in Church is read aloud - Author: Santosh Kumar

#26. He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't ... that's the thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that. - Author: Matt Chandler

#27. Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new. - Author: Martin Buber

#28. I've known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue. - Author: Michael Shannon

#29. Did you ever read the Bible? I mean sit down and read it like it was a book? Check out Lamentations. That's where we're at, pretty much. Pretty much lamenting. Pretty much pouring our hearts out like water. - Author: Peter Heller

#30. Did you know that more than 65% of the people who label themselves "born again Christians" seldom or never read the Bible? Of those who do read the Bible, did you know that the majority only read it during church or organized group Bible studies? - Author: James A. Durham