Women Bible Quotes

#1. 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

#2. If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments ... ?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#3. As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

Abdullah Of Saudi Arabia

#4. I got married. My wife changed her name. I know some women have a problem with that. But I wanted her to have my old girlfriend's name. So call me old-fashioned, but this fella does what the Bible tells.

Jim Gaffigan

#5. David was "a star, the Elvis of the Bible." An unusually for such a rockstar with his lust for power, lust for women, lust for life, he had humility of one who knew his gift work harder than he ever would.

Bono

#6. It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.

Fannie Flagg

#7. My mission today is to go forth and tell people about why I follow Christ and also what the Bible teaches, and part of that teaching is that women and men are meant to be together.

Phil Robertson

#8. The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#9. We are not called to give lifestyle tips or the self-help plumbing that today's worldly men and women crave. The Bible says the gospel is the "power of God for salvation to everyone who believes." (Romans 1:16b), so we must proclaim it.

Richard D. Phillips

#10. [Giving context to how radical bloomers as an article of clothing were at the time]

"The women shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord they God." - Deutronomy 22:5

Miriam Gurko

#11. 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

#12. It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

George William Foote

#13. While the official church was moribund, the house churches kept alight the flame of Christian witness. The church survived as a lay movement, often led by poorly educated Bible women who memorized Scripture and passed on the faith to family members and (if they dared) to neighbors and friends.

Kim-Kwong Chan

#14. Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.

Caryl Rivers

#15. Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.

Lillian Hellman

#16. 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

#17. The dykes versus the fags, but every straight man in the U.S who watched porn wanted to see two women getting off together. Lesbians held a unique place in the intolerant American psyche: it was the men who lay with men who challenged the words of the Holy Bible

Jenna Hilary Sinclair

#18. As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible.

Jim Bakker

#19. God's Word is the ultimate beauty treatment for every woman.

Elizabeth George

#20. Men and women may devise plans to satisfy their inner longings, but in the midst of all the "religions" of the world, God's way is available in the Bible for all who will come to Him on His terms.

Billy Graham

#21. God values Christian character, which shines in positive, outward conduct. Fashion your heart after Jesus.

Elizabeth George

#22. Though pedantry denies,
It's plain the Bible means
That Solomon grew wise
While talking with his queens ...

William Butler Yeats

#23. Our Bodies, Ourselves is the bible for women's health
It has served as a way for women, across ethnic, racial, religious, and geographical boundaries, to start examining their health from a perspective that will bring about change.

Byllye Avery

#24. Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been "authorized by the Bible" and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit.

Helen H. Gardener

#25. There would be no need for the women's movement if the church and Bible hadn't abused them

Leo Booth

#26. The astonishment soon passed off, the scales seemed to drop from his eyes, and the book became at once and for ever to him the great human and divine book, and the men and women, whom he had looked upon as something quite different from himself, became his friends and counsellors.

Thomas Hughes

#27. There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't.

Anne Graham Lotz

#28. Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just.

Jeanne Phillips

#29. Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all. charm is deceptive, beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised

Anonymous

#30. Clearly i Bible times, women were used in ministry leadership roles, and still are today.

Debora Hooper

#31. The Bible is a guidebook, leading men [and women] to God in a personal faith. Like a map or guidebook, it will show you the way, but you must take it one step at a time.

Billy Graham

#32. Men write Bibles. God doesn't. God writes in stars and worlds and seasons and Hudson Rivers and beautiful women. Creation is the good book.

Mark Siegel

#33. When those myths were created, when the Bible was written, man didn't know what an atom or a germ was, or where the sun went at night, or why the women got pregnant. [Laughs.] They needed stories to answer the questions.

Bill Maher

#34. Women revert to their maiden names in Heaven, Rutherford feels fairly certain. He can't remember where he learned this
France or the Bible.

Karen Russell

#35. The women hailed in the bible as examples for us were exceedingly wise, clever, intelligent, capable, and quick-witted. They were not shackled to the home, brainless ans without ambition. But their ambitions were God-oriented and God-directed.
~ Jennie

Anna Sofia Botkin

#36. The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose.

John Shelby Spong

#37. Nah." His arms tightened around her. "I think the Bible got it backwards. I think God made women first. Then he made man, because he thought, 'Someone's gotta see this!

Selena Kitt

#38. 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.

Sofia Samatar

#39. The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#40. How can we pick and choose which parts of the Bible to follow? One thing is God's will and another is just cultural differences? What if it's all cultural? What if homosexuality or saving yourself for marriage is as outdated as women staying silent in church or Leviticus forbidding tattoos?

Trevor D. Richardson

#41. Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried ... A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.

Lucy Stone

#42. [There is a] depth and urgency of the search of Jewish and Christian women for connection to the Divine, which found expression in more than 1000 years of feminist Bible criticism and religious re-visioning.

Gerda Lerner

#43. God's purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year.

Elizabeth George

#44. Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.

Bill Maher

#45. I have endeavoured to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#46. The menfolk, they die, all right. And it's us women who walk around, like the Bible says, and mourn. The menfolk, they die, and it's over for them, but we women, we have to keep on living and try to forget what they done to us.

James Baldwin

#47. Your better life is as close and as easy as making the choice to pick up your Bible each day, open it up, and let God speak to you.

Elizabeth George

#48. Instead of becoming a woman of the world, become a woman of the Word.

Elizabeth George

#49. When we meet the great men and women of the Bible face-to-face, we may be surprised to discover just how much like us they are. It is faith in a great God that makes a great man or woman of God.

Mike Bickle

#50. A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won't want to gossip.

Elizabeth George

#51. I believe that a woman who loses interest in her Bible has not been equipped to love it as she should. The God of the bible is too lovely to abandon for lesser pursuits.

Jen Wilkin

#52. -That ain't right, Miss Maudie. You're the best lady I know.-
Miss Maudie grinned. thank you ma'am. Thing is, foot-washers think women are a sin by definition. They take the bible literally, you know.

Harper Lee

#53. The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.

Elizabeth George

#54. All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.

Allan Bloom

#55. Look, Brother Chris, women are . . . weak vessels. It is identified in the Bible.

Nnedi Okorafor

#56. Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn from the Bible and expounded by the church, is enough to drive the most imaginative and sensitive natures to despair and death.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#57. The Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.

Letty M. Russell

#58. Last time I checked, Congress was created to uphold the values of the Constitution, not the Bible and its biased teachings. 'All men (including women) are created equal' and are afforded unalienable rights. Way to go, Mr. President! Stand up for what you believe and for the people of this country.

Barack Obama

#59. Real faith comes when you facing a problem you can't help, you can't change, and you can't work it out

Cynthia A. Patterson

#60. I will be a good wife," she thought, "that all the earth will know there is a God in Israel.

Lois T. Henderson

#61. It matters that women teach women, and that they do so with excellence.

Jen Wilkin

#62. Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The office of deacon was instituted initially to address this pressing need.

Carolyn Custis James

#63. The two most sacred documents known to man are the Bible and the Declaration of Independence. Better that a whole generation of men, women, and children should pass away by violent death than a word of either should be violated in this country.

Geraldine Brooks

#64. The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.

Keith Miller

#65. How different our prayer life would be if we submitted our will to God's. Imagine if we asked only for things to benefit His kingdom.

Amber Albee Swenson

#66. It's not what you get, but what you give that is God's true measure of a life.

Elizabeth George