Translations Of The Bible Quotes

#1. Translation is so important. The new American translations of the Bible sound like a Judith Krantz novel.

Rabih Alameddine

#2. 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

#3. The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when the word of God is infected by the hand of man, that is, written down, it is tainted.

Craig Ferguson

#4. Don't ask who said it? Ask what they said.

Thomas Aquinas

#5. It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies.

Billy Graham

#6. Honesty is not the best policy in life. Only, perhaps, in art.

Salman Rushdie

#7. Your job becomes your pulpit, your performance becomes your platform, and the marketplace becomes your parish.

Bill Winston

#8. I don't want to be a millionaire; just live like one.

Walter Hagen

#9. The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me'.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. 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

#11. Does anyone really think that America today is lacking preachers, books, Bible translations, and neat doctrinal statements? What we really lack is the passion to call upon the Lord until he opens the heavens and shows himself powerful.

Jim Cymbala

#12. Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?

Sherry Turkle

#13. That shows how impossible it is to be a woman. One's whole life depends on one's looks but one mayn't speak of one's own beauty

Rebecca West

#14. The secret of happiness is something to do

John Burroughs

#15. The high domed ceiling put me in mind of a skull, a brain, a mind. What did that make us, the readers?

Lia Mills

#16. Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.

David Norton

#17. There is no magic to achievement. It's really about hard work, choices, and persistence.

Michelle Obama

#18. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables.

Aldous Huxley

#19. I have one weakness: I love meat loaf.

Jackee Harry