Read The Bible Quotes

#1. 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?

James A. Durham

#2. I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

Billy Graham

#3. 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

#4. Lets us not just read the Bible; let us learn it; let us experience it; let us live it distinctively, in truth and in spirit, as a pleasant sacrifice unto the Most High God

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#5. The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.

Shane Claiborne

#6. I did not read the Bible today. I am not very good at being religious and don't really feel too bad about not being too good. I do wish that I loved God and His creatures more ...

Rich Mullins

#7. I don't have a religion. I ain't nothing wrong with church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran, I read the Kabalah, I read the Bible. They all got the same three basic principles: Love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and ... As far as me being, I live by those principles.

Kevin Gates

#8. As I read the Bible, I seem to find holiness to be [Christ's] supreme attribute.

Billy Graham

#9. I've read the Bible before, a couple of times cover to cover.

Trai Byers

#10. I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#11. I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

Johnny Cash

#12. We need to pray and read the Bible every day, and regardless of whatever else happens to you, that tends to keep you close to Him, because you are constantly in touch through His Word.

Cliff Richard

#13. As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible.

Tullian Tchividjian

#14. I read the Bible when I was 12 while studying for my bar mitzvah. I was also reading a lot of Dilbert comics at the time, and I guess the two kind of got fused in my mind. I've always imagined God as an irrational, distractible boss. It's my best explanation for our planet.

Simon Rich

#15. I read the bible often, not just to prepare for "Noah". I believe it is a very important book.

Russell Crowe

#16. I'm not religious in the sense that I do not subscribe to any particular set of religious dogma. I don't go to church. I don't read the Bible. But I believe that the word "Spirit" with a capital S points to an ultimate reality which I give my heart to.

Frederick Buechner

#17. 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

#18. Read the Bible; it is your roadmap through life.

George Foreman

#19. Every time we open the Bible, let's stop and pray, whether for fifteen seconds or fifteen minutes, asking the Spirit to teach us. When I read the Bible, I want God to talk to my soul.

Jim Cymbala

#20. If we read the Bible as carefully and as regularly as we read the daily papers, we would be as familiar with and as well informed about God as we are about our favorite player's batting average during baseball season!

Billy Graham

#21. That, at least, is the vision of the church in the New Testament: a colony of heaven in a hostile world. Dwight L. Moody said, Of one hundred men, one will read the Bible; the ninety-nine will read the Christian.

Philip Yancey

#22. I read the Bible - every goddamn day.

George S. Patton

#23. I am counting totally and completely on the Lord Jesus Christ, and not on Billy Graham. I am not going to heaven because I've read the Bible, nor because I've preached to a lot of people. I'm going to heaven because of what Christ did.

Billy Graham

#24. And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.

Thomas Paine

#25. As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his "eternal appetite" by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual "walk" with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.

Philip Yancey

#26. 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

#27. I don't read the Bible; I study the Bible. It's my GPS system. I use it to navigate my way through life.

Jhordynn

#28. I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.

Roma Downey

#29. If everyone was so keen to Christianize the slaves, why weren't they taught to read the Bible for themselves?

Sue Monk Kidd

#30. Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

Isaac Asimov

#31. 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

#32. I will answer for it, the longer you read the Bible, the more you will like it; it will grow sweeter and sweeter; and the more you get into the spirit of it, the more you will get into the spirit of Christ.

William Romaine

#33. I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?'

Neil Peart

#34. There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do - go to church, tithe, read the Bible, pray. But prayer should be so much more than an item on our "to do" lists.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#35. When I read the Bible, the Bible criticizes me, I don't criticize the Bible.

R.C. Sproul

#36. 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

#37. I'm sick of people who've never been to church telling me that church is full of hypocrites, and people who've never read the Bible telling me that it's baloney.

Kristin Chenoweth

#38. Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.

J.C. Ryle

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. Now it is a pleasant pastime, a joy and pleasure, to read the Bible and religious books, tracts, and papers, whereby I can learn more of the beauties of a life of salvation. May God help sinners everywhere to seek him while he may be found.

E.E. Byrum

#42. I read the bible every day and the one thing I have noticed is that those characters that are closest to God seem to be the ones who question and wonder and think more than others.

J.W. Lord

#43. At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible . Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.

Joseph Goebbels

#44. The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.

Benjamin Rush

#45. We do not read the Bible somewhere off by ourselves in a corner; we read it as a community of faith, together with the whole church in all times and places.

Michael S. Horton

#46. If you are expecting Paul to read the Bible like it was set in stone, you will find yourself getting pretty nervous. For Paul, now that Jesus has come, the Bible was more like clay to be molded.

Peter Enns

#47. When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#48. 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

#49. I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Maya Angelou

#50. I always thought faith was kind of a personal thing, Dad says thoughtfully.
Everyone has to figure out for themselves how much they should do things like pray or read the Bible.

Melody Carlson

#51. The human authors and editors of the Old Testament brought their own experiences and presuppositions to the task of writing. We don't often think about this when we read the Bible.

Adam Hamilton

#52. 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

#53. If God is your Father, you can count on the Holy Spirit to open your eyes and illumine His truth. He will burn it into your heart as you read the Bible, ingrain it into your thinking, live it out in obedience, and let Him continually keep you aligned with ultimate reality.

Stephen Kendrick

#54. But caveat lector: we do not read the Bible in order to reduce our lives to what is convenient to us or manageable by us - we want to get in on the great invisibles of the Trinity, the soaring adorations of the angels, the quirky cragginess of the prophets, and ... Jesus.

Eugene H. Peterson

#55. Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.

Cliff Richard

#56. When we approach the Bible as history and biography, we approach the Bible in the wrong spirit. We must read the Bible, not primarily as historians seeking information, but as men and women seeking God.

Billy Graham

#57. 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

#58. You can read the Bible, and should, but until you study it, it doesn't come alive for you and teach you a lasting lesson.

Take time.
Study God's Word.
It will change you.

Gail Davis

#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. I don't think we've got the gospel right yet. What does it mean to be 'saved'? When I read the Bible, I don't see it meaning, 'I'm going to heaven after I die.' Before modern evangelicalism nobody accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior, or walked down an aisle, or said the sinner's prayer.

Brian D. McLaren

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. It's tempting to get lost in the study, to turn to books and study groups and classes, to know all about God but not know God himself, to read about the Bible rather than read the Bible itself.

Michelle DeRusha

#64. I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

Woodrow Wilson

#65. Both read the Bible day and night,
But thou read'st black where I read white.

William Blake

#66. 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

#67. The more I read, {the Bible] the more Paul sounds like a stroke victim, who never taught a thing that Jesus taught, and only quotes him once, in Acts, wrongly, and the 12 are constantly chastising him for his teachings.

Glenn Hefley

#68. People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible.

John Ortberg

#69. Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

Abel Ferrara

#70. Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.

Alan Bennett

#71. Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it.

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#72. Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

Adam Hamilton

#73. The only wrong way to read the Bible is to not read it at all.

Elizabeth George

#74. To me, when I read the Bible, it's God's Word. I believe it. That settles it. And that's the end of it. There's no use in discussing it. Because the Bible says so, His Words are health. They are medicine. To all their flesh.

Kenneth E. Hagin

#75. Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book, and I as rarely felt the want of any other.

William Wilberforce

#76. Wake Up At The Most Silent Time And Read The BIBLE.

Cyc Jouzy

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. I've read the Bible, but I felt like a lot of the Bible was oppressive towards women. Then I read the Quran, and I thought it was also oppressive towards women.

Robert Webb

#80. Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.

Jurgen Moltmann

#81. When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity.

Adrian Rogers

#82. 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

#83. In some countries the common people are not permitted to read the Bible at all. In ours, it is as common as a newspaper and in schools is read with nearly the same degree of respect.

Noah Webster

#84. I read the Bible every day.

Denzel Washington

#85. It is not enough just to read the Bible; it is even just as important to understand it. As to living it- that is accomplished in and through us by the Holy Spirit."


~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#86. We rarely read the Bible to discover truth; more often, we wish to harmonize it with our belief system and see its meaning in light of our preconceived theological system

Anonymous

#87. Of course she's read it. Half of England has read it, which is why it's vulgar to quote it.' 'Half the world has read the Bible and we quote it.

Jennifer Bradbury

#88. Jesus says you can read the Bible as a checklist, but if you do, you miss the whole point.

Jefferson Bethke

#89. He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.)

William Manchester

#90. Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.

Jupiter Hammon

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. As I've heard said, "Of 100 unsaved men, one might read the Bible, but the other 99 will read the Christian."1 Ouch.

Jefferson Bethke

#94. 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

#95. I do believe that Israel is covenant land. That's very controversial, but I read the Bible literally, and I believe that God gave them that land, all the way back to Deuteronomy.

James Dobson

#96. We should read the Bible expectantly, systematically, and obediently ... The Bible can change our lives as we read it and obey its teachings every day.

Billy Graham

#97. I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

George Carlin

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

Jim George

#99. 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

#100. We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

Karl Barth