c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
For many potential Bible readers, this expectation that the Bible is univocal is paralyzing. You notice what seem to be contradictions or tensions between different voices in the text. You can't find an obvious way to reconcile them. You figure that it must be your problem. You don't know how to read it correctly, or you're missing something. You're not holy enough to read the Holy Bible. It might even be sacrilege for you to try. If the Bible is God's perfect infallible Word, then any misunderstanding or ambiguity must be the result of our own depravity. That is, our sinful nature as fallen creatures is what separates us from God, and therefore from God’s Word. So you either give up or let someone holier than thou tell you "what it really says." I think that's tragic. You're letting someone else impoverish it for you, when in fact you have just brushed up against the rich polyvocality of biblical literature.
— Timothy Beal, The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
The history of the Bible is one of perpetual revolution. In that light, we might begin to think about the Bible not so much as a fixed thing but as a dynamic, vital tradition. In light of its history, the Bible looks less like a rock than a river, continually flowing and changing, widening and narrowing, as it moves downstream. For some, thinking about the Bible as a river and not a rock is liberating. That rock has been a millstone around the neck and a tombstone that won’t be rolled away. But for others, seeing it this way can be disorienting. That rock has promised solid foundation in a stormy world. Cling to it or be swept away.
— Timothy Beal, The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
We're used to picturing the genealogy of a text like a family tree: one original at the base ascending like a single trunk, with copies branching off it, and copies of copies branching off them. And so on throughout the generations. We imagine an original from which all the generations of diversity spring as scribes make revisions and introduce copying errors. But the reverse seems to be the case when it comes to the origins of the Bible: the further you go back in its literary history, the less uniformity there is. Scriptural traditions are rooted, quite literally, in diversity.
— Timothy Beal, The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
The idea of the Bible as a divine guidebook, a map for getting through the terra incognita of life, is our golden calf. It's a substitute for the wilderness wandering that the life of faith necessarily entails.
— Timothy Beal, The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
No divinity worth His salt could be contained in a book.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
Think about the whole Biblical story of Mary. She wakes up and sees something with a lion, eagle, and human face that wants to inseminate her with the Holy Seed. She’s practically a saint just for not killing herself on the spot.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
To be sure, all translation is interpretation. ... Be that as it may, functional-equivalence translations, which presume that ambiguity, multivalence, and contradiction are by definition not part of the Bible, take far more creative and interpretive license than formal ones in eradicating those features. In so doing, they too often try to make the Bible into something it's not.
— Timothy Beal, The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
Bible publishers are not selling Bibles. What they're selling is that iconic idea of the Bible. Their value-added biblical content promises to provide answers to questions, solutions to problems, and speaks in no uncertain terms about God's plan for your life and how to live it. Adding value to the Bible almost always means adding "biblical" values that are either missing or really hard to find in the Bible itself but that provide that feeling of Bibleness so many seek.
— Timothy Beal, The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
The Bible appears to be the most revered book never read.
— Timothy Beal, The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
About two-thirds of Americans believe that the Bible "answers all or most of the basic questions of life"—and 28 percent of them admit that they rarely or never read it!
— Timothy Beal, The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
I saw the tears of the oppressed—and they have no comforter;power was on the side of their oppressors—and they have no comforter.And I declared that the dead,who had already died,are happier than the living,who are still alive.But better than bothis the one who has never been born,who has not seen the evilthat is done under the sun.
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
The wrinkled pages of the Bible crackled as Mom leafed back to the beginning of Matthew. I had always felt I was conceived from the powers of the universe. Maybe I was chosen to fulfill a divine mission.
— Diamond Mike Watson, Adopted Like Me: Chosen to Search for Truth, Identity, and a Birthmother
When you go through deep waters, I will be with you.
— Isaiah 43:2
I don't know which Bible stories ought to be treated as historically accurate, scientifically provable accounts of facts and which stories are meant to be metaphorical. I don't know if it really matters so long as those stories transform my life.
— Rachel Held Evans, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
In Proverbs, a wisdom book of the Hebrew Scriptures, a cat would find a few “wisdom” passages as noxious as the Garden of Eden passages. Again the symbology of fruit being eaten
— Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
A sapient cat looking at humanity's salad garden buffet designed by God would not be seen as so much a paradise if the divine is seen as giving this to intelligent cats. It would be seen as quite the opposite. Since cats use plants as emetics and also lack the ability to taste sweet, Eden would be a rather hellish place. It would be a place where God might send a cat to punish the feline. This is because fruits and vegetation to eat would be a place to eat bland foods that cause one to vomit. It would hardly be a beneficial place for cats if this was a place of divine refuge where death did not exist. Again the immortal state would place cats in a rather hellish environment.
— Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
God's command to Noah that he could eat meat just as he could eat flora would be far more conducive and satisfying to the cat and other obligate carnivores. As a matter of fact the cat reading (yes, it presupposes reading in sentient and sapient cats) the human scripture might truly see the human God as correcting His mistake in the flood that he created in the Edenic account. If the cat saw the scripture as a human rendition of God, there might truly be a belief that the human God was finite and definitely having a more Luciferian nature towards cats.
— Leviak B. Kelly
The cat uses trees, as stated, as many things but here it would not uncommon to see the oak as the marker, not the stone. Cats would spray the tree, not necessarily the rock. A rock as a further marker would be a non-essential redundancy that a cat would more or less ignore. It would be like saying one needed to ignore the law of God (written on the stone) to honour their promise to not honour foreign gods. The human reaction of obvious strangeness would begin here. If the tree is seen as an item to climb, the rendition would get more queer to the human interpretation.
— Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
As Deborah sits below a tree to give advice to her people, the cat could envision itself above Deborah. In the cats mind, the visual allusion would first point to the prophetess as being a predator. This consideration would not be hard to reach for the lucid intelligent cat as she is giving advice to her people here as how to engage in war. Envisioning this text, the cats would find it hard not to recognize the predatory nature of the human beneath it. This fact means that Deborah becomes, in feline hermeneutics, the antagonist. The prophetess would be seen as a danger to the cat. This could lead the cat to deduce that the enemy of the prophetess was a fellow protagonist. Then the advice that Deborah gave to Barak would seem as a malicious attack on a ally or worse an innocent.
— Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
Meaningless! Meaningless!”says the Teacher.“Utterly meaningless!Everything is meaningless.”What do people gain from all their laborsat which they toil under the sun?Generations come and generations go,but the earth remains forever.The sun rises and the sun sets,and hurries back to where it rises.The wind blows to the southand turns to the north;round and round it goes,ever returning on its course.All streams flow into the sea,yet the sea is never full.To the place the streams come from,there they return again.All things are wearisome,more than one can say.The eye never has enough of seeing,nor the ear its fill of hearing.What has been will be again,what has been done will be done again;there is nothing new under the sun.Is there anything of which one can say,“Look! This is something new”?It was here already, long ago;it was here before our time.No one remembers the former generations,and even those yet to comewill not be rememberedby those who follow them.
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
Even if it's not appreciated, do your best. Integrity will take you further than acknowledgement.
— Andrena Sawyer
King David had gotten old. He was so cold and frail that the court appointed a young woman to snuggle with him in his bed. No, they didn't have sex. Though the court did make a point of hiring someone beautiful, just to put a little sizzle in his chicken.
— Mark   Russell
Without the knowledge of the Scriptures, we fail to pray effectively.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love the person. Hate the sin.
— Jane Bulos
The demand that the Bible should be read and understood and expounded historically is, therefore, obviously justified and can never be taken too seriously. The Bible itself posits this demand: even where it appeals expressly to divine commissionings and promptings, in its actual composition it is everywhere a human word, and this human word is obviously intended to be taken seriously and read and understood and expounded as such. To do anything else would be to miss the reality of the Bible and therefore the Bible itself as the witness of revelation. The demand for a "historical" understanding of the Bible necessarily means, in content, that we have to take it for what it undoubtedly is and is meant to be: the human speech uttered by specific men at specific times in a specific situation, in a specific language and with a specific intention. It means that the understanding of it has honestly and unreservedly been one which is guided by all these consideration. If the word "historical" is a modern word, the thing itself was not really invented in modern times. And if the more exact definition of what is "historical" in this sense is liable to change and has actually changed at times, it is still quite clear that when and wherever the Bible has been really read and expounded, in this sense it has been read "historically" and not unhistorically, i.e., its concrete humanity has not been ignored. To the extent that it has been ignored, it has not been read at all. We have, therefore, not only no cause to retract from this demand, but every cause to accept it strictly on theological grounds.(§19.1, p. 464)
— Karl Barth
There is no such thing as a special biblical hermeneutics. But we have to learn that hermeneutics which is alone and generally valid by means of the Bible as the witness of revelation. We therefore arrive at the suggested rule, not from a general anthropology, but from the Bible, and obviously, as the rule which is alone and generally valid, we must apply it first to the Bible.The fact that we have to understand and expound the Bible as a human word can now be explained rather more exactly in this way: that we have to listen to what it says to us as a human word. We have to understand it as a human word in the light of what it says.Under the caption of a truly "historical" understanding of the Bible we cannot allow ourselves to commend an understanding which does not correspond to the rule suggested: a hearing in which attention is paid to the biblical expressions but not to what the words signify, in which what is said is not heard or overheard; an understanding of the biblical words from their immanent linguistic and factual context, instead of from what they say and what we hear them say in this context; an exposition of the biblical words which in the last resort consists only in an exposition of the biblical men in their historical reality. To this we must say that it is not an honest and unreserved understanding of the biblical word as a human word, and it is not therefore an historical understanding of the Bible. In an understanding of this kind the Bible cannot be witness. In this type of understanding, in which it is taken so little seriously, indeed not at all, as a human word, the possibility of its being witness is taken away from the very outset. The philosophy which lies behind this kind of understanding and would force us to accept it as the only true historical understanding is not of course a very profound or respectable one. But even if we value it more highly, or highest of all, and are therefore disposed to place great confidence in its dictates, knowing what is involved in the understanding of the Bible, we can only describe this kind of understanding of the reality of a human word as one which cannot possibly do justice to its object. Necessarily, therefore, we have to reject most decisively the intention of even the most profound and respectable philosophy to subject any human word and especially the biblical word to this understanding. The Bible cannot be read unbiblically. And in this case that means that it cannot be read with such a disregard for its character even as a human word. It cannot be read so unhistorically.§19.1, pp. 466-467)
— Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics 1.2: The Doctrine of the Word of God
There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis, because it guarantees a complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost canonical status in Protestant theology. But now we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.
— Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics 1.2: The Doctrine of the Word of God
Like my peers, I believed that the Bible was God's Word written down for me, answering all my questions about who God is and what God wants for my life, from the mundane to the ultimate. Or at least I knew that was what I needed to believe. But that was not what I found when I actually opened the Bible up and looked around inside.
— Timothy Beal, The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
The icon of the Bible as God's textbook for the world is as bankrupt as the idea that it stands for, of religious faith as absolute black-and-white certainty. Just as the cultural icon of the flag often becomes a substitute for patriotism, and just as the cultural icon of the four-wheel-drive truck often becomes a substitute for manly independence and self-confidence, so the cultural icon of the Bible often becomes a substitute for a vital life of faith, which calls not for obedient adherence to clear answers but thoughtful engagement with ultimate questions. The Bible itself invites that kind of engagement. The iconic image of it as a book of answers discourages it.
— Timothy Beal, The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
I believe The Bible is the infallible inspired inerrant Word of The Living God and scientifically accurate in every detail.
— Kent Hovind, The Dangers Of Evolution [Dvd 2005]
There is a time to fish and a time to mend nets.
— Robert Caro
Where doest Thou feed Thy flock? In Thy house? I will go, if I may find Thee there. In private prayer? Then I will pray without ceasing. In the Word? Then I will read it diligently. In Thine ordinances? Then I will walk in them with all my heart. Tell me where Thou feedest, for wherever Thou standest as the Shepherd, there will I lie down as a sheep.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
God wants you to always call Him not because you need Him but because you love Him. Matthew 22:37
— Felix Wantang, Face to Face Meetings With Jesus Christ 2 (Read Chapter One): Preparing for God's Paradise
Or just claim it come from Leviticus since nobody ever read Leviticus. This is how you know. Nobody who get to the end of Leviticus can still take that book seriously. Even in a book full of it, that book is mad as shit. Don't lie with man as with woman, sure I can run with that reasoning. But don't eat crab? Not even with the nice, soft, sweet roast yam? And why kill a man for that? And trust me, the last thing any man who rape my daughter going to get to do is marry her. How, when I slice him up piece by piece, keeping him alive for all of it and have him watch me feed him foot to stray dog?
— Marlon James
If God did not reveal himself with word-by-wordprecision, then He has placed the revelation oftruth into the incompetent hands of fallen man.That would prove hopelessly imbecilic. He whorevealed Himself with exactness in “natural” creationchose the precise words, sentences and paragraphs to compile one Book in which we have His perfect Word.
— Ron Susek
God Provides by divine Power through knowledge of His Promises so that we Participate in divine nature in godliness.
— Corey M.K. Hughes
God gave us His Word so we could know truth. His truth. The whole truth. And nothing but the truth.
— Patty Houser, A Woman's Guide to Knowing What You Believe: How to Love God With Your Heart and Your Mind
The Bible is clear: Truth exists. It can be known. And when we ground our beliefs in it, we are rational.
— Patty Houser, A Woman's Guide to Knowing What You Believe: How to Love God With Your Heart and Your Mind
Or just claim it come from Leviticus since nobody ever read Leviticus. This is how you know. Nobody who get to the end of Leviticus can still take that book seriously. Even in a book full of it, that book is mad as shit. Don't lie with man as with woman, sure I can run with that reasoning. But don't eat crab? Not even with the nice, soft, sweet roast yam? And why kill a man for that? And trust me, the last thing any man who rape my daughter going get to do is marry her. How, when I slice him up piece by piece, keeping him alive for all of it and have him watch me feed him foot to stray dog?
— Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings
We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
Every progress made by Satan and every technological breakthrough in human history occurs because God allowed it
—  God created Satan and God is in complete control of everything. Job 1:6-12
If Satan really wanted to face Jesus Christ in a battle, he will be facilitating the End of the Age by helping to spread the gospel to the whole world. This must be fulfilled for the End to come. Matthew 24:14
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible: Volume 2
Those who engage in deception generally have nothing good to offer
—  Satan has nothing good to offer humanity. John 8:44
Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher.“Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”Ecclesiastes 1:2
— Anonymous
When Satan tempted Adam, he was disguised as a serpent; when Satan tempted Jesus, he was not disguised. As we approach the End of the Age, Satan will gradually unmask himself. Matthew 24 and Revelation 13
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible: Volume 2
A heroine makes progress against an enemy who would manipulate her thoughts when she begins to probe his and see weakness.
— Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Your trials last as long as your disobedience.
— Daryl Baugh
Do not make the Great Commission your Great Omission.
— Daryl Baugh
I wonder what God must have thought then / When He saw the work of Cain's hand / That the first baby born on the planet / Grew up to kill the third man.
— Brian M. Boyce, Genesis Beginning
Determining dreams is the business of God, But He might let me know what it means, what you saw.
— Brian M. Boyce, Genesis Beginning
The Bible is man in a nutshell. Good and evil live side by side in the same book. That's why it's cherished. The good find in it encouragement, the weak solace, the evil, justification.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
The big news of the Bible is not that you fight for God but that God fights for you.
— Max Lucado
Vladimir Nabokov, contemning readers who "identified" with characters in fiction, remarked that the best readers identify with the artist.
— Joseph Epstein
Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct--as irrational animals do--will destroy them.
— Bible Verses
In general, it should be noted, biblical law is evolutionary, not revolutionary...
— Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Wisdom
During the course of my research on #herbs mentioned in the #Bible , I found that #pomegranate is regarded as a wonder #fruit in many other.
— Sudhir Ahluwalia, Holy Herbs : Modern Connections to Ancient Plants
The Corinthians talked about spiritual things, but they did so in a fleshy and soulish way. The apostle Paul told them in the first book that they were fleshy and not spiritual (3:1), and in chapter 2 of the first book, he spoke of soulish men (v. 14). A spiritual man (v. 15) is one who does not behave according to the flesh or act according to the soulish life but lives according to the spirit, that is, his spirit (Rom. 1:9) mingled with the Spirit of God (8:16; 1 Cor. 6:17). Such a one is dominated, governed, directed, moved, and led by such a mingled spirit. Although the Corinthians spoke much about spiritual things, the apostle Paul designated them as fleshy and soulish. They were talking about spiritual things in the soul and in the flesh. Some may talk about the heavenly things in Ephesians, but they do so as Corinthians—in the soul or in the flesh.
— Witness Lee
We need to be impressed with these words in verse [2 Cor. 1:]9—“we should not base our confidence on ourselves but on God.” Through the redemption of Christ, the very God, who is in the heavens, has come into us, into our spirit (Col. 1:27; 2 Tim. 4:22). Thank the Lord that He is now in our spirit, calling us to forget about the soulish things and turn to our spirit to meet Him. We should no longer trust in our self, in our soul, but in God who is in our spirit.
— Witness Lee, An Autobiography Of A Person In Spirit
...Cast yourself upon, abandon yourself to this Christ who lived that life of utter surrender to God that He might prepare a new nature which He could impart to you and in which He might make you like Himself.
— Andrew Murray, The Master's Indwelling
Pride is lacking in wisdom and not trusting Him (Proverbs 28:25-26).
— Steven Chopade
Describing the relationship between the biblical witnesses and the theologians who come after, the author challenges that the theologian is not to correct the notebooks of the biblical writers like some high school teacher. Instead, our theology is always subject to what THEY say, as we willingly submit our notebooks for their approval.
— Karl Barth, Evangelical Theology: An Introduction
I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world.
— Erri De Luca, Tre cavalli
The exegetical foundations would appear to be weak, and one shouldn’t build huge theological edifices, no matter how splendid or consistent, on weak foundations.
— Ben Witherington III
Jewish texts compare the knowable universe to the size of a mustard seed. Similar association between God and man made in Quran, Buddhism.
— Sudhir Ahluwalia, Holy Herbs : Modern Connections to Ancient Plants
Has anyone done research on herbs, trees and vegetation referred to in the Bible? Share your thoughts.
— Sudhir Ahluwalia, Holy Herbs : Modern Connections to Ancient Plants
Bible is a window into the life and practices of the people who lived in Israel and bordering nations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, and Judea.
— Sudhir Ahluwalia, Holy Herbs : Modern Connections to Ancient Plants
The original text of the Bible was perhaps written in Hebrew and Aramaic and later translated into Greek.
— Sudhir Ahluwalia, Holy Herbs : Modern Connections to Ancient Plants
The bible is so simple you have to have someone else help you misunderstand it..
— Harmon Okinyo
Every single Biblical doctrine of theology, directly or indirectly, ultimately has its basis in the book of Genesis.
— Ken Ham, The Lie: Evolution
I have heard many times that atheists know more about religion than religious people. Atheism is an effect of that knowledge, not a lack of knowledge. I gave a Bible to my daughter. That's how you make atheists.
— David   Silverman
For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth." -
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
— Anonymous
The (Bible) story is much more powerful as Truth than as metaphor.
— John Kasich, Every Other Monday: Twenty Years of Life, Lunch, Faith, and Friendship
God's self-revelation is a higher authority than our feelings.
— Edward T. Welch, Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest
I do not think the Bible is weak, Mr. Morgan; and that is not the reason why I do not wish to read anything that is written against it. But I know that I am weak and ignorant, and that I might not be able to answer in my own mind, and to my satisfaction, all that clever men may choose to say or to write. And so my mind might get unsettled, and i have no wish to have it unsettled.
— George E. Sargent, The Story Of Charles Ogilvie
The central thought of the Scriptures is that God intends to work Himself in Christ through the Spirit into us, that God and we, we and God, might be really one in life, in nature, and in the Spirit. To show this God uses several figures or symbols in the Bible.
— Witness Lee
The experiences mentioned in this book are experiences in the Holy of Holies. This book gives a portrait of a person who is in the Holy of Holies. Paul and his co-workers were such persons. They had entered into the good land and were living in the spirit, experiencing Christ all the time. They were deep, even the deepest, in the experience of Christ.
— Witness Lee, An Autobiography Of A Person In Spirit
Just like the notion of "Internet natives", who have never known a world without Internet access, we, who have lived our entire lives with video games, can be known as "video game natives.
— Alexei Maxim Russell, The Classic Gamer's Bible
Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age.”Note the “I Am.” In the Greek it is the strongest possible form of expression – Ego Eimi. Both ego and eimi mean “I am” but the former puts the emphasis on the “I” while the latter puts it on the “am.” Taken together they are the strongest Greek form to express the name of God as the great “I AM.” That is how the risen Christ here refers to Himself. “Lo, I AM with you!” But there is a lovely feature in the Greek construction here which does not reveal itself in our English translation. It reads like this:“And lo, I with you AM…”You and I dear fellow believer, are in between the “I” and the “AM.” He is not only with us, He is all around us. Not only now and then, but “always” which literally translated is, “all the days” … this day, this hour, this moment. Why, when we reflect on it, were not our Lord’s sudden appearings & disappearings during the 40 days between His resurrection and His ascension meant to teach those early disciples (and ourselves) this very thing, that even when He is invisible He is none the less present, hearing, watching, knowing, sympathizing, overruling? Let us never forget that the special promise of His presence is given in connection with our going forth as winners of others to Him.
— J. Sidlow Baxter, Baxter's Explore the Book
Asking for blessings,receiving blessings, becoming a blessing,becoming a source of blessings
— Paul Gitwaza
For we know that our old self was crucified with him so the the body of sin might be brought to nothing, that we should no longer be enslaved to sin.
— Romans 6:6
This Bible of Mine? It is the breath of God spoken into my weary bones. It is the armor I need to walk the roads He has chosen for me, and it's the confirmation of promises that withstand the test of hours and adversity. It's a love letter, and it has my name on it. It has your name on it.
— Angie  Smith
The difference between us and the papists is that they do not think that the church can be 'the pillar of the truth' unless she presides over the word of God. We, on the other hand, assert that it is because she reverently subjects herself to the word of God that the truth is preserved by her and passed on to others by her hands.
— John Calvin
Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen.
— Duane T. Gish
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
The less you obey the Word of God, the more you distance yourself from God in the spiritual realm
— Sunday Adelaja
The Bible is the voice of God, calling out to everyone.
— Sunday Adelaja
The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible.
— Sunday Adelaja
Each temptation leaves us better or worse
—  neutrality is impossible.
We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us.
— David Ben-Gurion
Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong.
— Corinthians 16:13
Mr. Carter might have remembered, too—though he did not—that the Bible speaks of wicked men who prosper in the world and increase in riches; and of those who are poor in this world, but rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God has promised to them that love Him. And he might have learned from this that his prosperity was no sure proof that God was pleased with him.
— George E. Sargent, The Story Of Charles Ogilvie
It is one of the excellences of that best of all books, that instructions and warnings and cautions and promises suited to all persons, of every age, from children to old men and women, are to be found in it. And another of its excellences is that any person who is desirous of being made better and wiser and happier by it, may open it at almost any part, and not be disappointed of finding what he seeks.
— George E. Sargent, The Story Of Charles Ogilvie
Read this book ... but understand it’s fiction. And let life be ... your most important addiction.
— John Zelazny, The Sorrows of Young Mike
Even Satan can quote scripture out of context why are we surprised when men do it.
— Gary Rohrmayer
Come to Me, all you labor and are heavy laden, and I’ll give you rest! For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.
— Kay Beatton
The Bible is the most important part of your faith.
— Elizabeth George, Following God with All Your Heart: Believing and Living God's Plan for You
Faithfulness in little things will prepare you for greater tasks from God.
— Jim George, The Bare Bones Bible ® Handbook
Whatever is true about your heart will show up in your actions.
— Jim George, The Bare Bones Bible ® Handbook
Good listeners, I don’t need to tell you that now more than ever, we’re living in Godless times. We’re living in a time when the Bible is shunned in our schools in favour of scientific evolutionary lies, where many are expelling God from their hearts, where sodomites and baby murderers and heathens and Islamofascists have more rights in our country than good Christian men and women. Where Sodom and Gomorrah cast a pall over every aspect of our daily lives, and our world leaders are trying with all their might to construct the culture of globalisation favoured by the Antichrist.
— Sarah Lotz, The Three
Why is it so hard to get people to study the Scriptures? Common sense tells us what revelation commands: 'Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God'--'Search the Scriptures'--'Be ready to give to every one a reason of the hope that is in you.' These are the words of the inspired writers, and these injunctions are confirmed by praising those who obey the admonition. And yet, for all that we have the Bible in our houses, we are ignorant of its contents. No wonder that so many Christians know so little about what Christ actually taught; no wonder that they are so mistaken about the faith that they profess.
— William Wilberforce, Real Christianity
The design of redemption is to exhibit the grace of God in such a manner as to fill all hearts with wonder and all lips with praise.
— Elizabeth George, Understanding Your Blessings in Christ: Ephesians
Whence but from heaven, could men unskilled in arts,In several ages born, in several parts,Weave such agreeing truths? Or how, or why, Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie?
— John Dryden
I cannot read God's mind, however I can read God's Word.
— R.C. Sproul
Bible: Various portions of it, when properly interpreted, contain a code of behaviour which many men consider best suited to the ultimate happiness of mankind.
— Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel
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
You're insane.' The officer says, shaking his head, 'What about the Bible? What about the Good Word?''Oh, that's all made up, ain't it?' She tells him with a shrug, 'I ain't done most of the stuff that you says I done.
— Emma Rose Kraus, A Blue One
Application is why we study the Bible.
— Elizabeth George, Pursuing Godliness: 1 Timothy
We are known to be anti-authoritarian, anti-institutional, and notoriously anti-religious—more likely to quote Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Monty Python, or Star Trek than the Bible.
— Gudjon Bergmann, More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality
Don’t let your personal desires distort the standards established in God’s Word.
— Jim George, The Bare Bones Bible ® Handbook
What you think to be a tragedy id God’s opportunity to show Himself faithful.
— Jim George, The Bare Bones Bible Handbook: 10 Minutes to Understanding Each Book of the Bible
The Christian who is not diligently involved in a serious study of Scripture is simply inadequate as a disciple of Christ. To be an adequate Christian and competent in the things of God we must do more than attend “sharing sessions” and “bless me parties.” We cannot learn competency by osmosis. Biblically illiterate Christians are not only inadequate but unequipped. In fact, they are inadequate because they are not equipped.
— R.C. Sproul
But it was never actually that big a deal. Jenkins didn't really disbelieve in the Resurrection: he merely questioned the historical veracity of the New Testament narratives. It was mildly interesting: one side saying "I really believe that Jesus was the Son of God, and that the Bible gives a journalistically accurate account of the circumstances surrounding his birth," and the other saying "I also really believe that Jesus was the Son of God, but I think that the story of Mary and Gabriel may be a legend." A real disagreement, an important one, but not a fundamental fault line along which a church can split. The people who think that the stone really was rolled away, and the people who think that it was rolled away in a very real sense are clearly part of the same religion. But it is hard to see how people who think that it doesn't particularly matter whether or not the stone was rolled away, provided we live in the way that Jesus would have wanted us to, are part of the same religion; or, indeed, of any religion at all. I think that this is what some evangelicals think some liberals think. I think they may be right.
— Andrew Rilstone, Where Dawkins Went Wrong
I think they'd barely recognize us as brothers and sisters. If we told them, church is on Sundays, and we have an awesome band...if the found out 1/6th of the earth's population claimed to be Christians, I'm not sure they could reconcile the suffering happening on our watch while we're living in excess...But listen, early church, we have a monthly event called 'Mocha chicks', we have choir practice every Wednesday, we organize retreats with door prizes, we're raising $3 million for an outdoor amphitheater, we have catchy t-shirts, we don't smoke or say the f-word, we go to bible study every semester...the local church would be the heartbeat of the city.
— Jen Hatmaker
God's revelation in the Gospel not only reveals Who He is, but it also reveals who we are.
— David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor (Proverbs 22:9).
— Anonymous
Modern Christianity, in dramatic reversal of its biblical form, promises to relieve the pain of living in a fallen world. Then message, whether it’s from fundamentalists requiring us to live by a favored set of rules or from charismatics urging a deeper surrender to the Spirit’s power, is too often the same: The promise of bliss is for now! Complete satisfaction can be ours this side of heaven. Some speak of the joys of fellowship and obedience, others of a rich awareness of their value and worth. The language may be reassuringly biblical or it may reflect the influence of current psychological thought. Either way, the point of living the Christian life has shifted from knowing and serving Christ till He returns to soothing, or at least learning to ignore, the ache in our soul.
— Larry Crabb
Mark 9:23 " 'if you can?'" said Jesus. "Everything is possible for him who believes." (NIV)
— Mark NIV
The narrow path of the righteous is an extremely difficult path to travel. The rough road to victory is a very challenging endeavor that pushes the limits of endurance. Enormous mountains of hardship, boisterous storms of adversity, and several other elements of confrontation are there in their various forms of operation to test our faith. So it’s very important for us to apply the word of our God to our lives, and believe it with unwavering faith. Then no form of adversity can keep us back from a successful advancement into a deeper progression where greater achievements are obtained.
— Calvin W. Allison, Standing at the Top of the Hill
Don’t be crushed under the oncoming tide of adversity that moves in to test your faith. Make sure that your foundation is built on the solid rock of Jesus Christ. Be ready for the storms of life and move forward in a confidence that cannot be shaken by the strong winds of hardship.
— Calvin W. Allison, Standing at the Top of the Hill
He didn’t care if I hated him, only that I did as I was told.
— Sheri Webber, Devil Went Down: And Hell Came Running
You have got to build a firm foundation on the living word of God. You have got to study it, to store it in your heart, to gain the wisdom that it gives and apply it to your life.
— Calvin W. Allison, Standing at the Top of the Hill
Fill your heart with truth so that the wisdom of Christ will flow fluently from you like a living river moving into the seeking hearts of the thirsty.
— Calvin W. Allison, Standing at the Top of the Hill
The Bible changes your perspective on the people, events, and circumstances of your day.
— Elizabeth George
O guide my judgment and my taste,Sweet Spirit, author of the bookOf wonders, told in language chasteAnd plainness, not to be mistook. O let me muse, and yet at sightThe page admire, the page believe;"Let there be light, and there was light,Let there be Paradise and Eve!"Who his soul's rapture can refrain?At Joseph's ever pleasing taleOf marvels, the prodigious train,To Sinai's hill from Goshen's vale.The psalmist and proverbial seer,And all the prophets sons of song,Make all things precious, all things dear,And bear the brilliant word along. O take the book from off the shelf,And con it meekly on thy knees;Best panegyric on itself,And self-avouch'd to teach and please.Respect, adore it heart and mind.How greatly sweet, how sweetly grand,Who reads the most, is most refind'd,And polish'd by the Master's hand.
— Christopher Smart
Ten percent tithes is unbiblical
—  God is not interested in numbers.
Study God’s word to show thyself approved and be prepared for the tests that we are given. They make our faith stronger and our character more mature, so that our lives better glorify the Lord.
— Calvin W. Allison, Standing at the Top of the Hill
The Bible strongly encourages us to get involved in discipleship.
— Jim George, A Man After God's Own Heart
The Bible will teach you, correct you, instruct you, and give you hope.
— Elizabeth George
If we fail to recognize there is a unified whole to Scripture, we will have only a pile of pieces. Simplistic slogans, formulas and catchphrases will not suffice in conveying the richness of the Scriptures.
— Michael S. Horton
One thing I have asked from Jehovah- It is what I will look for- That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, To gaze upon the pleasantness of Jehovah And to look with appreciation upon his temple.
— New World Translation of the World Scriptures
Why study the Bible? You must know truth in order to spot error
— Jim George
Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make.
— Jim George, A Man After God's Own Heart
Remember, sometimes you have to look beyond the weirdness. It's like the temple in ancient Jerusalem. If you went there, you'd see oxen being slaughtered and all sorts of things. But look beyond the weirdness, to what it means.
— A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
The most tried and true way to put God first is to read His Word, the Bible, and obey it. There are no shortcuts to spiritual growth.
— Jim George
It’s not what you get, but what you give that is God’s true measure of a life.
— Elizabeth George, Walking with the Women of the Bible: A Devotional Journey Through God's Word
God’s purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year.
— Elizabeth George, Walking with the Women of the Bible: A Devotional Journey Through God's Word
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God
— 1 John 4:7 Bible
Do not fear, for I am with you - Isaiah 41:10
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
God is able to do more than you ever imagine!Keep trusting God. Your miracle will surely come true.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I'm struck dead by lightning, and with good reason.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
Ask Jesus to help you fully understand the joys of obedience. Also, ask Him how you can be a woman fully committed to obedience without slipping into a legalistic approach to life. We must always remember our goal is pursuing revelations of Him. Our focus can’t be just following rules but following Jesus Himself.
— Lysa TerKeurst, Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl
Lord, Your Word is a love letter to me, showing me how much You love me. And every time I read it, I love You more.
— Stormie Omartian, The Prayer That Changes Everything: The Hidden Power of Praising God
Don’t we get into God’s Word so it can get into us? So that it can interrupt us, change us, satisfy us? How sad to simply settle for learning facts about the Bible when it was meant for so much more
— Lysa TerKeurst, Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl
I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
God’s peace and perspective are available to you through His Word.
— Elizabeth George
My mom, God love her, she was one of those Bible people. She thought it was wrong to bother anybody, regardless of race, color or religion. It just wasn't a Christian thing to look down on anybody, and that's what she taught us.
— Levon Helm
Quran‬, ‪Bible‬, ‪BhagwadGita‬ are your (as an follower's) way of life and not every-ones way of life, so don't force people to change. These Holy books teach you to change yourself (for good) and not others.
— honeya
On the other hand, inspiration - a criterion for canonization we might expect to play a great role - is not a factor. The Shepherd of Hermas and many writings either claimed inspiration or had it claimed for them, yet were neither universally nor ultimately accepted as canonical. In contrast, no NT writing claims inspiration for itself. The statement in 2 Tim. 3:16 that all Scripture is inspired by God (theopneustos) refers to Torah. Second Peter 3:16 refers to Paul's letters as though they were Scripture but does not say they were 'inspired.' In Revelation, 'inspiration' is certainly implied but not explicitly claimed. No doubt there was an increasingly widespread conviction that the NT writings were divinely inspired, but that notion did not appear to factor in as a criterion for canonization.
— Luke Timothy Johnson, The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation
A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more.
— James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
I blamed the Bible,when its words were not at fault,only the way they’re interpretedby those too willingto wield them like chain saws,cutting others off at the knees.
— Ellen Hopkins, Rumble
How can a man know how to live rightly on the face of earth? By daily reading and meditation on the Holy Scriptures and obedience to what is written.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Well, he'd get help from the Bible. It was all inspired, every word, no matter what scoffers like Jim said. He'd take the first text he turned to and talk on that.He opened on: 'Now THEREFORE, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shethar-boznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which ARE beyond the river, be ye far from thence,' an injunction spirited but not at present helpful.
— Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry
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, A Young Woman's Guide to Making Right Choices: Your Life God's Way
...The words testament and covenant are virtually synonymous in their theological usage, the Latin definition of testamentum being "a covenant with God, holy scripture." Thus, the Old and New Testaments, as we commonly refer to them, are written testimonies or witnesses (the Latin testis meaning "witness") of the covenants between God and man in various dispensations.
— Jeffrey R. Holland
The sufficiency of Scripture means that Scripture contained all the words of God He intended His people to have at each stage of redemptive history, and that it now contains everything we need God to tell us for salvation, for trusting Him perfectly, and for obeying Him perfectly.
— Wayne A. Grudem, Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine