Top 100 Read Bible Quotes
#1. Does it not seem strange that the generation with the most advanced technology and the easiest-to-read Bible translations is the weakest generation of Christians in the history of our country? Church attendance has never been lower, and the Christian influence in our culture never weaker.
A.W. Tozer
#2. I was raised in the church by my grandmother who made sure we went to Sunday School, read the Bible and went to church every Sunday. Every night we read Bible stories before we went to bed.
Torii Hunter
#3. If every Christian read Bible, they know that God's grace for us is Jesus Christ.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#4. Does God write?
No, never.
God speaks,
Never writes at all.
Gita was spoken
Bible in Church is read aloud
Santosh Kumar
#5. 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.
Philip Kerr
#6. 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.
Jim Hamilton
#7. We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.
Karl Barth
#8. Read this book ... but understand it's fiction. And let life be ... your most important addiction.
John Zelazny
#9. It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.
Alice Morse Earle
#10. If we do not read the word of God, how could we know His thoughts?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#11. My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.
John Quincy Adams
#12. As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.
Adam Hamilton
#13. For I aint, you must know,' said Betty, 'much of a hand at reading writing-hand, though I can read my Bible and most print. And I do love a newspaper. You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the Police in different voices.
Charles Dickens
#14. Let us read the Bible reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in it.
J.C. Ryle
#15. Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.
Jurgen Moltmann
#16. The Bible was meant to be read by those in love. It's sad when it's not.
Bill Johnson
#17. When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.
Billy Bob Thornton
#18. The more I read, the more I felt the Bible looked a lot more like the movie 300 than the movie Pleasantville.
Jefferson Bethke
#19. God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.
James Fenimore Cooper
#20. Reading our Bible is actually fundamental, but there is more if we are going to walk in His truth. Even if we read the Bible, if we do not read it by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, we will not understand it correctly.
Rick Joyner
#21. Why is it that they have Bibles in every motel room? Why should a man want to read the Bible when he's with a woman alone in a motel room? Why would he be interested? Whatever he's praying for, he's already got!
Jackie Mason
#22. I like to read the bible in public places where people are watching me read it. And I like to mumur out to myself: 'Bullshit!'
Zach Galifianakis
#23. I cannot read God's mind, however I can read God's Word.
R.C. Sproul
#24. Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of the crucifixion found in Mark's gospel and discover that it is not based on eyewitness testimony at all.
John Shelby Spong
#25. Don't say God is silent when your Bible is closed. Open it and read it. God will speak.
Adam Cappa
#26. We would eat chocolates and smoke cigarettes and read the Bible, which is the only way to do it, if you ask me. Don, the Bible is so good with chocolate. I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It is a chocolate thing. We
Donald Miller
#27. Katy had her Bible out. She wanted to read from 2 Corinthians, the first chapter, where the Christians were told that the sufferings of Christ would overflow into their lives as surely as the comfort would.
Karen Kingsbury
#28. I know I would have learned a huge amount had I read the Bible with my rabbi. But I also would have missed a huge amount, and I would have been guided down the narrow paths where the rabbi led me, not the paths that I chose for myself.
David Plotz
#29. The Bible wasn't meant to be read; it was meant to be prayed. Start reading, and God will start speaking. And that's when you need to stop reading and start praying.
Mark Batterson
#30. To one man who for a long time had been haunted by insecurities and fears I suggested that he read through the Bible underlining in red pencil every statement it contains relative to courage and confidence.
Anonymous
#31. Our usefulness and happiness depend upon us living near to God, for you well know that God alone can make us useful and happy. If we wish to grow in grace, we must read the Bible much and pray much; and not only read and pray, but act. - Samuel Pond (Sr.)
Samuel William Pond
#32. As the Epic Film, Noah, debuts this weekend, those of you who have read Samrajni of Pemako know about the Noah subplot in the novel.
Yes, Safiya, the protagonist is distantly related to Noah...
Roy C. Marien
#33. When I have the Bible memorised, then I'll be able to go and read a couple other books.
Stephen Baldwin
#34. I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.
Hunter Tylo
#35. Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
Dwight L. Moody
#36. I read the different translations of the Bible they had and really just dove into it, almost so I could prove it all right.
Christian Hosoi
#37. Karl Barth said it well: "We have to read the Bible in one hand ... and the newspaper in the other." Our faith should not cause us to escape this world but to engage it.
Shane Claiborne
#38. Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.
Billy Graham
#39. History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.
G. M. Trevelyan
#40. When I am asked what my vision for the Brooklyn Tabernacle is, I always respond, "I don't have one. Last time I read my Bible, it said it was Christ's church, not mine.
Jim Cymbala
#41. Read your Bible, child; this world is not a paradise but a vale of tears.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#42. I believe the fast track to atheism is reading the Bible. I've read it three times all the way through. It's a big part of our culture, a big part of our history. I don't just read things I agree with.
Penn Jillette
#43. The Christian is not to be disturbed by the
chaos, violence, strife, bloodshed, and threat of war that fill the pages of our daily newspapers. We know that these things are the consequences of man's sin and greed. Every day as I read my newspaper I say: The Bible is true.
Billy Graham
#44. Want to get your kids to read more? Try making books easily accessible. Put them where kids can easily reach and don't make them off limits. (within reason)
Melanie Kirk
#45. Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it.
Dorothy Kilgallen
#46. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
Abraham Lincoln
#47. I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong.
Tony Campolo
#48. Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment.
Leland Ryken
#49. How many people actually read the Bible and follow it? The truth is right there. How many people know what a marriage or family is all about? Everything starts with an idea, but getting people to act is different. You can't do something well if you don't know what it is or tried it for awhile.
Phil Mitchell
#50. May the Lord grant you grace to read and understand the Holy Scriptures.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#51. Better to read a chapter a day from the Bible than to aspire to read ten chapters, and never read even one. Starting with a smaller portion of the Bible will eventually lead to an appetite for more.
Steven Taylor
#52. I am simply an average, everyday Christian guy who has been radically changed by the good news about God's presence in His world. This has primarily happened as I have learned how to read the Bible for what it says, in the way it says it.
Christopher M. Morgan
#53. Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
Lamar Odom
#54. Annie said her prayers, read her Bible, and tried not to forget God. Ah! could she only have known that God never forgot her, whether she forgot him or not, giving her sleep in her dreary garret, gladness even in Murdoch Malison's school-room, and the light of life everywhere!
George MacDonald
#55. Both read the Bible day and night,
But thou read'st black where I read white.
William Blake
#56. A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human.
Donald Miller
#57. But have you ever seen one? ... They shook their heads. "Not Physically, no. But if you look at this passage - "
Man, she liked that Bible. I'd read it and could definitely understand it's appeal, but I didn't have time for this.
Darynda Jones
#58. When I read the Bible, I see that we should have victory in our life and be overcomers, and I can't even control my temper. I'm impatient. I'm hard to get along with. I'm selfish and self-centered, and I don't seem to have any control over it.
Joyce Meyer
#59. If you actually read the Bible, you can see there's a whole lot more information in there than the way we interpret the Bible. Because there are single lines in the Bible where if you just take them at face-value, they don't make any sense whatsoever in the world we see, we know, and we understand.
Russell Crowe
#60. our lives are the only Bible some people will ever read. Christians are to be living epistles, written by God and read by men (2 Cor. 3:2).
Greg Laurie
#61. The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.
Bryce Courtenay
#62. If you wait for your natural soul mate to meet with you, it will be just like waiting for lightning with which to read your Bible. And you will not be able to read much either. For a moment it is there, and by the time you have opened the Bible it is gone.
Rajneesh
#63. If you need a guide for your ongoing relationship with God, read Psalms.
Jim George
#64. Come back to the Bible. Begin to read it. Study it and God will speak to you and change you - and through you perhaps history can be changed.
Billy Graham
#65. I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.
Francis W. Newman
#66. If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done,' we'll miss the good news that alone can set us free.
Tullian Tchividjian
#68. I don't read the Bible as the literal word of God; I don't view Jesus as a God. I've rejected both those statements. I view Jesus as a model for how we should live, and by that definition I do consider myself a Christian.
Tim DeChristopher
#69. Those who read the Scriptures as magnificent literature, breath-taking poetry, or history and overlook the story of salvation miss the Bible's real meaning and message.
Billy Graham
#70. Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.
Claire Tomalin
#71. The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones.
John Ruskin
#72. We ought not to READ the scriptures, but listen to them, for our Beloved is present and speaks to us through them. (vs. it being like a love letter sent to us from afar).
M. Basil Pennington
#73. What you got, son, I call it shinin on, the Bible calls it having visions, and there's scientists that call it precognition. I've read up on it, son. I've studied on it. They all mean seeing the future.
Stephen King
#74. The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.
Charles Colson
#75. I'm very proud of all my children. They all have Christian families; they read the Bible; they pray; the kids go to Sunday school; they know the Ten Commandments by heart. That's my greatest honor, and I couldn't do anything to glorify God that could surpass that. That's very meaningful.
Robert H. Schuller
#76. Trusting God is not by what you read or know...It is by doing what you have learned from His Word, Bible.
Woodrow Kroll
#77. When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
Woodrow Wilson
#78. Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly.
Troy Polamalu
#79. Just as you must eat, drink, and breathe to live, you must read the Bible, pray, and be involved in a church to stay spiritually alive and vital. You never will outgrow these things.
Greg Laurie
#80. Many young Christians admire the words and works of Jesus (information) but do not know him as Lord and God (wisdom). They read and respect the Bible (information) but they do not perceive that its words lay claim to their obedience (wisdom).
David Kinnaman
#81. Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
Isaac Asimov
#82. If everyone was so keen to Christianize the slaves, why weren't they taught to read the Bible for themselves?
Sue Monk Kidd
#83. I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.
Roma Downey
#84. If this incomplete ayaan hirsi wants fame sooo much then she shouldn't use religion as a base to be known. Some people justify their in justifications by selling their souls to the devil, ayaan I'm sure u have taken the time to read the bible. Do tell me it's stance on woman comparing to men ...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#85. About two-thirds of Americans believe that the Bible "answers all or most of the basic questions of life" - and 28 percent of them admit that they rarely or never read it!
Timothy Beal
#86. Why do people believe what they read in the newspapers, but question what they read in the Bible?
Denise R. Solomon
#87. The more you continue to read Scripture, the more you begin to think as He thinks and act as He acts. And that's how, over time, you gain the wisdom of the ages.
Wayne Cordeiro
#88. The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!
Robert Green Ingersoll
#89. The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.
Herbert Hoover
#90. I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could write a book like that.
Dwight L. Moody
#91. Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading.
Henry David Thoreau
#92. What you read between the covers of your Bible is wisdom for a lifetime, rock-solid, forever truth - truth you can stand on, live by, and trust ... forever.
Elizabeth George
#93. I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#94. Grace is a dangerous topic because the Bible is a dangerous book. It wrecks people, it offends people, and it's tough to read from the suburbs.
Preston Sprinkle
#95. I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.
Lauryn Hill
#96. My favorite book in the Bible is always Proverbs because it's where you can find wisdom for no matter what you're going through. It hits me every time I read it. I've always read Proverbs regularly because it helps me deal with what's happening every day in real life.
Torii Hunter
#97. Donald Trump really is a fan of the Bible, except that it's far too long for him to read. So he just released a new, improved version, the Gospel According to Trump. It reads: "I, Donald Trump, am God. Praise, worship, and adore Me as I do Myself. Then all shall be Great, as I am Great. The End."
Michael R. Burch
#98. The Bible is still loved by millions, read by millions, and studied by millions. It remains the most published and most read book in the world of literature.
Bernard Ramm
#99. Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.
John Bunyan
#100. The Bible is God speaking to mankind. The more you read the Bible, the more you will hear God speaking to you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
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