Read The Bible Quotes

#1. I can find ten more who will die for the Bible for every one who will actually read it. - Author: Charles Spurgeon

#2. 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. - Author: Rick Joyner

#3. I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word. This proved meat indeed and drink indeed to my soul. I daily received fresh life, light and power from above. - Author: George Whitefield

#4. 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. - Author: James Dobson

#5. Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible. - Author: Jane Yolen

#6. 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. - Author: James Fenimore Cooper

#7. 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. - Author: Billy Graham

#8. One crucial thing to keep in mind as you read any Hebrew narrative is the presence of God in the narrative. In any biblical narrative, God is the ultimate character, the supreme hero of the story. - Author: Gordon D. Fee

#9. Whenever we pick up the Bible, read it, put it down, and say, "That's just what I thought," we are probably in trouble. - Author: Ellen F. Davis

#10. I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster. - Author: E. O. Wilson

#11. The more I read, the more I felt the Bible looked a lot more like the movie 300 than the movie Pleasantville. - Author: Jefferson Bethke

#12. 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. - Author: George Carlin

#13. We read some things in the Bible three hundred and sixty-five times and they mean nothing to us, then all of a sudden we see what God means, because in some particular we have obeyed God, and instantly His nature is opened up. - Author: Oswald Chambers

#14. As I've heard said, "Of 100 unsaved men, one might read the Bible, but the other 99 will read the Christian."1 Ouch. - Author: Jefferson Bethke

#15. I'm more Jewish than you think I am ... I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people. - Author: Rick Perry

#16. I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently. - Author: Jim George

#17. Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart. - Author: John Ruskin

#18. The Bible has, amazingly- no doubt with supernatural grace-survived its critics. The harder tyrants try to eliminate it and skeptics dismiss it, the better read it becomes. - Author: Charles Colson

#19. Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom. - Author: Jonathan Sacks

#20. 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. - Author: Billy Bob Thornton

#21. My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single morning. He made me memorize it and repeat verses at night before I went to sleep. - Author: Jay Parini

#22. The Bible was meant to be read by those in love. It's sad when it's not. - Author: Bill Johnson

#23. A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian. - Author: Richard Dawkins

#24. It's entirely different waking up in the morning and praying. I read aloud six or seven different devotional books, one of which is the Bible and ask the Lord to be with me that day. - Author: Pat Summerall

#25. Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it. - Author: Jurgen Moltmann

#26. 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] - Author: R. Alan Woods

#27. I desperate desire to read the Holy Scriptures is spirituality of the soul. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy. - Author: Abhijit Naskar

#29. My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament. - Author: Ziggy Marley

#30. When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity. - Author: Adrian Rogers

#31. I like to read a couple books at once. I was reading the Princess Diana book. I'm reading a book about Chicago and the mob. Right now I'm also reading the Bible, beginning to end. I'm very religious. That's how I've gotten to where I am. - Author: Heidi Montag

#32. 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. - Author: Karen Kingsbury

#33. 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 - Author: Donald Miller

#34. 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. - Author: Noah Webster

#35. I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself. - Author: Richard Lewis

#36. I read the Bible every day. - Author: Denzel Washington

#37. 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. - Author: John Shelby Spong

#38. The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. - Author: Harper Lee

#39. There more we read the Holy Bible, there more we will believe in God. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#40. 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 - Author: Anonymous

#41. 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. - Author: Jennifer Bradbury

#42. Jesus says you can read the Bible as a checklist, but if you do, you miss the whole point. - Author: Jefferson Bethke

#43. 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.) - Author: William Manchester

#44. There is nothing, he tells me, more odious than a German. However, their women are seductive, and they make the world's most beautiful music. My employer sings me a German song. He sounds like a buffalo in distress. Afterward he makes me read to him from the Bible. - Author: Sofia Samatar

#45. The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed. - Author: Thomas Paine

#46. 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. - Author: Jupiter Hammon

#47. 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!' - Author: Zach Galifianakis

#48. 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! - Author: Jackie Mason

#49. The Bible appears to be the most revered book never read. - Author: Timothy Beal

#50. People no longer rely on the Bible as either their standard for living or their source of truth. In fact, few people even bother to read it anymore. - Author: David Jeremiah

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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

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

#57. 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

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

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

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes. - Author: Alice Morse Earle

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

#66. 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

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

#68. 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

#69. 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

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

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! "You are the light of the world." - Author: Charles Spurgeon

#77. Let us read the Bible reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in it. - Author: J.C. Ryle

#78. Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction. - Author: E. Haldeman-Julius

#79. This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking what they listen to or read in the Bible, which has been pronounced and written by the Holy Spirit and in the Holy Spirit. - Author: Meister Eckhart

#80. The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church-but not studied. - Author: Howard G. Hendricks

#81. It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons. - Author: C.S. Lewis

#82. 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. - Author: Charles Dickens

#83. Give yourself to reading.' ... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,
especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible. - Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#84. Don't just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don't just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don't just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream. Claim your promise. Spell your miracle. - Author: Mark Batterson

#85. We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians. - Author: Jacques Ellul

#86. I don't see how anybody can read the Bible and believe it's the word of God, or believe that it is anything but a barbarous story of a barbarous people. - Author: Culbert Olson

#87. I bury my mind in my book, the Bible. Every morning it's the first thing that I do. I've been doing it for years and years. So I want to come back here [to Israel] to see the places that I read about every day. It's very important to my faith to feed [my] spirit in Israel. - Author: Bobby McFerrin

#88. If this is not already a habit of yours, now is the time to begin reading a portion of the Bible every day. Ideally, read it together as husband and wife - in the morning, perhaps, or before bed. - Author: Alex Kendrick

#89. 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

#90. No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible - to read the history and theology. - Author: D. A. Carson

#91. In America, we have bible-reading applications: every single one of those applications asks permission to turn on your microphone, your camera; it wants permission to read your e-mails and the right to send e-mails wherever it chooses. - Author: John McAfee

#92. Wonderful," he said. "Tell me. Which books in the Bible do you favor?"
"Oh, I favors 'em all," Pa said. "But I mostly like Hezekiel, Ahab, Trotter, and Pontiff the Emperor."
The Old Man frowned. "I don't recollect I have read those," he said. - Author: James McBride

#93. 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. - Author: Adam Hamilton

#94. We pray everyday. We read the bible everyday, so everybody's happy. - Author: Manny Pacquiao

#95. I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a keen interest in religion for someone who's not religious. - Author: Jim Jefferies

#96. If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth. - Author: Jupiter Hammon

#97. 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. - Author: John Quincy Adams

#98. If we do not read the word of God, how could we know His thoughts? - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#99. Some Christians say god is the source of morality, these people have clearly never read the bible. - Author: Gabriel Neil

#100. I say this with all respect so that it don't upset you too bad, but I say it anyway. When I read in the Bible where he [Jesus] says, 'I Am,' I just smile and say, 'Yes, I Am, too!' - Author: Kenneth Copeland