Top 100 The Bible Is Quotes
#1. The purpose of creation is that we bring God glory because we have been made in His image. The purpose of salvation is that we bring God glory by being remade in His image. The purpose of the Bible is to teach us how we bring God glory by living out being remade in His image.
Chris Green
#2. I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.
John Adams
#3. The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.
D. A. Carson
#4. The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success.
Richard Cecil
#5. The Bible is unfortunately unclear on a long list of moral and social questions and sex is one of them. On the one hand, there are expressions of admiration for the reportedly virgin mother of Jesus, but other portions of scripture speak quite accommodatingly of polygamy.
Steve Allen
#6. What a book the Bible is, what a miracle, what strength is given with it to man. It s like a mould cast of the world and man and human nature, everything is there, and a law for everything for all the ages. And what mysteries are solved and revealed
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#7. The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey God.
Andrew Van Der Bijl
#8. The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.
N. T. Wright
#9. This otherness problem is what the gospel "fixes," and the story of the Bible is the story of God's people struggling with otherness and searching for oneness.
Scot McKnight
#10. What we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. How many there are who sit helpless and listless, with open mouths, hungry for spiritual things, and the minister has to try to feed them, while the Bible is a feast prepared, into which they never venture.
Dwight L. Moody
#11. One proof of the inspiration of the Bible is that it has withstood so much poor preaching.
A.T. Robertson
#12. The Bible is instruction, it is light, it is the Word of God that predicts future events, warns of dangers and holds us back from falling and getting hurt.
Sunday Adelaja
#13. What interests me so much about the characters of the Bible is that they make mistakes but God uses them anyway, in important ways. Nobody's perfect, but God can even use our imperfection.
Fred Rogers
#14. I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!
Tony Campolo
#15. The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.
John Ruskin
#16. The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#17. The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
Mahatma Gandhi
#18. The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.
Pope Gregory I
#19. The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
Richard Cecil
#20. To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe
Charles Spurgeon
#21. Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God.
Adrian Rogers
#22. I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth. It's a great example to use and a great reason to be happy about being a storyteller because the lessons of the land are always in stories.
Nas
#23. The bible is a source of great inspiration to me. It is a textbook of metaphysics. Within the bible are keys to personal growth, and lessons in personal actualization. The bible is a spiritual masterpiece.
John Fante
#24. Why is it that so few "pretty people" without checkered pasts are used mightily in the Scriptures? Because the Bible is primarily about God's grace, not about human cleanliness.
Matt Chandler
#25. The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
#26. I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. And I say no, it's not, Dad. Well, I believe that it is. Well, you know, some people believe they're Napoleon. That's fine. Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth.
Bill Hicks
#27. The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#28. The Bible is the divine means of developing spiritual maturity. There is no other way.
Howard G. Hendricks
#29. Regular expository preaching of the Bible is the staple diet of a healthy church.
Alistair Begg
#30. How can we call ourselves a church and not believe in healing and in miracles? I cannot read four pages anywhere in the Bible without encountering miracles! And the God of the bible is the same today!
T.L. Osborn
#31. Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#32. The Bible is the supreme law that all governments must obey.
Randall Terry
#33. The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones.
John Ruskin
#34. You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine ... God ordains the death penalty!
Rafael Cruz
#36. To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand or account for all its utterances.
Christina Rossetti
#37. Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.
Peter Kreeft
#38. The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book.
Leland Ryken
#39. Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, "Yes!" He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because ... he refuses God's way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him.
Billy Graham
#40. The bible is an instruction book you don't want to skip reading.
Amanda Penland
#41. Because the Bible is God's Word, it has eternal relevance; it speaks to all humankind, in every age and in every culture.
Gordon D. Fee
#42. The business of reading and interpreting the Bible in South Afria is a tricky one! The Bible is everywhere and in the hands of many, including the pain inflictors. ~ Mogomme Alpheus Masoga
Gerald O. West
#43. I believe [the Bible] is meant to soften our hearts, not harden them.
Alex Sanchez
#44. I know many of you would say "What about the Bible?" The Bible says this, the Bible says that, the Bible is the inspired Word of God. I think the Bible is the inspired word of man - about God, and some of that is now expired.
Carlton Pearson
#45. The key to understanding the Bible is Jesus Christ.
J.C. Ryle
#46. The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#47. We don't like to think about death; yet, worldwide, 3 people die every second, 180 every minute, and nearly 11,000 every hour. If the Bible is right about what happens to us after death, it means that more than 250,000 people every day go either to Heaven or Hell.9 David said, "Show me, O Lord, my
Randy Alcorn
#48. If the Bible is not simply "revelation," neither is it simply a devotional aid, even the primary devotional aid.
N. T. Wright
#49. The Bible is really not a religious book but a divine manual written by the manufacturer of humanity by which the product man is supposed to live. If we learn those principles and obey them, then we find that the process of failure to success becomes more inevitability than experiment.
Myles Munroe
#50. The Bible is not an option; it is a necessity. You cannot grow spiritually strong without it.
Billy Graham
#51. Calling in the Bible is a central and dynamic theme that becomes a metaphor for the life of faith itself.
Os Guinness
#52. I think the Bible is hugely patriarchal. There are so many sexist comments and homophobic comments and comments that are not in keeping with nurturing and loving the human spirit.
Alanis Morissette
#53. The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it near, and spread out all its rocks and trees and flowers and vulant fields and winding rivers at one's very feet. That telescope is the Spirit's teaching.
Thomas Chalmers
#54. The Bible is the authoritative Word of God and contains all truth.
William J. Clinton
#55. Having knowledge of the Bible is essential to a rich and meaningful life.
Billy Graham
#56. [The] faith spoken of in the Bible is not a matter of intellectual belief, but a matter of connecting experientially and substantively with the person of Truth, Jesus.
Karla Perry
#57. The inspiration and authority of the Bible is the bedrock upon which our faith is built. Without it, we are doomed to uncertainty, doubt, and a hopeless groping in the darkness of human speculation.
Sam Storms
#58. I really think the Bible is a baseline where all stories come from. All of the zillion stories in the Bible provide inspiration for everything.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#60. Secular journalists ... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti - gay. If these people were honest, they would have to admit that the Bible is also pro - slavery and anti - women.
John Shelby Spong
#61. The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.
John Stott
#62. In classrooms and living rooms across the globe, an agnostic or an atheist may be heard to strenuously argue, 'But the Bible is just a book.' Similar arguments may be raised against other holy books. But they all are too ironic, by half. A book is the Bible.
Gerald Weaver
#63. The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious.'
John Drane
#64. Trying to understand God's will for anything without reading the Bible is like jumping into the middle of a cricket match without knowing any of the rules and never having watched a game.
Vance C. Kessler
#65. Memorizing the Bible is most important. "Thinking God's thoughts" will take the place of worried, anxious concerns.
Billy Graham
#66. That uncivilized heathen nations should first be civilized, and then Christianized, is a sentiment of the past. Now it is coming more and more to be acknowledged, that the Bible is the great civilizer of the nations.
Stephen Return Riggs
#67. We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
John D. Rockefeller
#68. If your heart is not attuned to God, it will become a catch basin for every device of the devil. Yes, Satan is at work in our world. The Bible is my authority.
Billy Graham
#69. One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.
Donald Miller
#70. The proper worldview context for interpreting the Bible is not evangelicalism, Catholicism, the Protestant Reformation, the Puritans - or even the modern world. The proper context for interpreting the Bible is the context in which it was written - that of the ancient biblical writers.
Michael S. Heiser
#71. The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw.
Martin Luther
#72. God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
Philip Yancey
#73. The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days ...
Rick Warren
#74. The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.
Robert A. Heinlein
#75. The Bible is the one Word of the one God about the one way of salvation through the one Savior, Jesus Christ.
Graeme Goldsworthy
#77. When we neglect our Bible study we often feel guilty. When you skip a meal do you feel guilty? No, you feel hungry. The Bible is food for our soul. When we fail to read it we should not feel guilty, we should feel hungry. Guilt is fueled by obligation hunger is fueled by desire.
Tyler Edwards
#78. The Bible is God's Word given in man's language
Max Lucado
#81. Our tendency today is to assume that we can eliminate the authority of husband over wife and yet retain the authority of husband-wife over the children. The Bible is more realistic about marriage than modern man, for the truth is that in disobeying the one hierarchy we destroy the other.
Charles F. Stanley
#82. The Bible is true, and some of it actually happened.
Marcus Borg
#83. There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true.
Madeleine L'Engle
#84. The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
John Barth
#85. If the Bible is called the Good Book, it's not because its people are. Blood flows as freely through the stories as the ink through the quills that penned them.
Max Lucado
#86. A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore Roosevelt
#87. God is the Truth. The Bible is the truth about the Truth. Theology is the truth about the truth about the Truth.
Richard Wurmbrand
#88. The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and humanity rather than enslavement and subservience; a God of love, righteousness and community rather than hatred, self-interest and exploitation.
Allan Boesak
#89. It is false to say that what we don't know can't hurt us, especially when it comes to the Bible. If ever there were anything we need to know, it is the very Word of God. That said, what is in all likelihood worse than what we don't know about the Bible is what we do know that just isn't so.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#90. The message of the Bible is clear: Jesus Christ is Lord! It's a fact. Bringing our lives into submission to His will in everything is the key to being a godly woman. It is also the path to joy.
Barbara Hughes
#91. Whether the Bible is Law or Gospel depends on the spiritual condition of the one hearing it. If someone is regenerate and loves God, then the whole Bible is Gospel to him. If someone is unregenerate and hates God, the whole Bible is Law to him, the whole thing condemns him.
Douglas Wilson
#92. There is a God and there is a Devil. The Bible is the living word of God and there are more Antichrists living among us then you could ever believe or even truly understand
Stephen Biro
#93. The religion of the Bible is wholly supernatural.
A.B. Simpson
#94. Do you think the Bible is accurate? I mean, do you think it's real?"
"I think Pastor Calvin is hot. In a fortysomething way. That pretty much sums up my religious conviction.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#95. The Bible is always short on details. Didn't Stephen's innate sense of self-preservation thwart his martyrdom at all?
Hope Jahren
#96. The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.
Franz Kafka
#97. The theme of the Bible is not that the world's not messy but that God's at work in the mess.
Matt Chandler
#98. The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
George Santayana
#99. The Bible is just a book. But, you choose whether to prove it's all true or nothing.
Shim Steward
#100. 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
