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Bible Quotes


"Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it."


"If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad."


"There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself."


"The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct."


"The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world."


"The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that."


"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."


"The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is."


"Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means."


"The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context."


"The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed."


"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."


"Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine."


"The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit."


"If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible."


"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."


"Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible."


"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go."


"The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted."


"Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible."


"The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares."


"I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me."


"Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages."


"The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed."


"The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show."


"The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible."


"You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible."


"The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible."


"Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?"


"The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah's Witnesses."


"In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart."


"There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, "If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.""


"I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible."


"But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation."


"The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter."
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