Story From The Bible Quotes

#1. Here is individual responsibility and the invention of conscience. You can if you will but it is up to you. This little story(from the Bible)turns out to be one of the most profound in the world. I always felt it was,but now I know it is.

John Steinbeck

#2. I also able to graciously survive the PhD from the grace, which comes from prayer, bible reading, extensive story reading, fasting, fellowship, listen to music, daily dance and sacred writing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. The Bible is the story so far in the true novel that God is still writing.

N. T. Wright

#4. All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories.

Bill James

#5. Life is filled with things you don't expect, but the Bible tells us to respond by trusting God and continuing to worship him,

Laura Story

#6. Just as heaven and earth were created to be together - and, indeed, that's how the whole story of the Bible ends - so marriage is to be a symbol of this divine design: two differentiated entities uniquely fitted for one another.7

Kevin DeYoung

#7. The Bible is primarily concerned with the story of man's redemption as it is in Jesus Christ. If you read Scripture and miss the story of salvation, you have missed its message and its meaning.

Billy Graham

#8. Only God can write a story that resonates not just in the power of the imagination or the heart or the mind, but in the very soul; only God can write a story that brings dead things to life.

Jared C. Wilson

#9. The South is a strange place, one that can't be fit inside a movie, a place that dares you to simplify it, like a prime number, like a Bible story, like my father.

Harrison Scott Key

#10. In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah's history written in advance in story form.

Eli Of Kittim

#11. If we fail to understand the biblical story of Jesus, we will compromise our prophetic interpretations of the end-times. And that's exactly what we've done.

Eli Of Kittim

#12. And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

Adrian Rogers

#13. The fairy tale of heaven, the promise that whatever shit happens, your story gets a happy ending. The Bible, boiled down: Once upon a time I helped some poor suckers out and someday, maybe, if you're good, I'll help you too,

John Joseph Adams

#14. The whole world ought to know the story of the Bible.

Billy Graham

#15. The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus.

George MacDonald

#16. In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

Philip Yancey

#17. The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.

Glen Duncan

#18. The Bible is not a Christian owner's manual but a story - a diverse story of God and how his people have connected with him over the centuries, in changing circumstances and situations.

Peter Enns

#19. What I love about the Bible is that it's a group of stories but it's all telling one main story. It's about Jesus Christ. The story is not about me. That takes a lot of the pressure off me, but it also puts the responsibility on me to point people to who the true story is about.

Matt Diaz

#20. For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son [Stalin], so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.

Austin 3:16

#21. The Bible is one story that unfolds in one book, by one author, about one subject. A story that moves from promise to fulfillment.

Alistair Begg

#22. It is pretty clear in the Bible story that the whale swallowing Jonah wasn't meant as a punishment from God, it was God saving him from drowning. So it was actually provision to give him a second chance. The whale itself was the start of Jonah's second chance.

Phil Vischer

#23. From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

Ann Voskamp

#24. Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one meta-narrative from Genesis to Revelation.

Roma Downey

#25. From the bruised heel of Genesis (3:15) to the reigning lamb of Revelation (22:1), the Bible is a redemptive story of a crucified Messiah who will accomplish a royal victory through atoning suffering.

Jeremy R. Treat

#26. Scripture offers the unique access to the story of redemption and then, in turn, funds tradition, reason and experience, as God's Word is remembered, experienced, and thought about.

Clark H. Pinnock

#27. My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

Albert Einstein

#28. You'd think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn't. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is. He just lets the characters and conflict hang in the air like smoke.

Donald Miller

#29. ...sound Bible study transforms the heart by training the mind and it places God at the center of the story.

Jen Wilkin

#30. The holy word is story, and story is the holy word.

Yann Martel

#31. Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.

Leonard Ravenhill

#32. 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.

D. A. Carson

#33. Many people think of the Bible as a book of moral teachings with stories sprinkled through to illustrate the teachings. But it's a lot BETTER THAN THAT ... the Bible is a single true story with teachings sprinkled through to illustrate the story.

Timothy Keller

#34. We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

Anatole France

#35. The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

Eugene H. Peterson

#36. Entering the house of God to dwell with God, beholding, glorifying and enjoying him eternally, I suggest, is the story of the Bible, the plot that makes sense of the various acts, persons and places of its pages, the deepest context for its doctrines.

L. Michael Morales

#37. There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.

Steve Allen

#38. The Bible is the story of a love drama that looked as if it would end in tragedy - but then Jesus came.

Paul David Tripp

#39. The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can't the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures?

Bruce Feiler

#40. You can't just decide to take the subject matter of The Bible and figure out you can just change what you want. I mean, the audience knows, and if you give them a Biblical story, you better get it right.

Mark Burnett

#41. The ruach blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but cannot tell from where it comes or where it goes. God is He, He is Ruach (Spirit) and Ruach is speaking to our ruach (spirit) revealing great mysteries, knowledge, wisdom, understanding and joy.

Sipporah Joseph

#42. As for biblical or religious theory, I don't ever want to fight about the details of the story, I want to live the reality of the message.

Steve Maraboli

#43. 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.

Culbert Olson

#44. I believe in the bible. I believe in the one true God. I believe he is the one true God because he's the only one that loved me enough to actually take action in my life.

Jacci Mendelsohn

#45. The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.

Howard Nemerov

#46. To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to what I call the vision of God is the story which is told in the Bible.

Jan Smuts

#47. Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story ... travelling on the donkey in a stressful environment.

Michael Leunig

#48. The story of the Bible is not the story of the covenant of grace; nor is it the story of Israel. The Bible is the story of God's work in history to sum up all things in Christ. New Covenant Theology strives to keep this one plan of God - centered in Jesus Christ - primary.

A. Blake White

#49. 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.

Gordon D. Fee

#50. And so Betsie and I arrived in Barracks 8 in the small hours of that morning, bringing not only the Bible, but a new knowledge of the power of Him whose story it was.

Corrie Ten Boom