Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible – that is just cheating. It’s cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn’t how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.
The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.
I’ve read the Bible before, a couple of times cover to cover.
I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.
I know that Christ doesn’t say it’s gonna be an easy life, but he’s there to get us through it. I believe with all my heart the Bible to be true.
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
I love the Bible.
We don’t see the Bible as it is itself. We see it in relation to a lot of people who surround it. And because we don’t care for some of them, we think we shouldn’t care for it.
I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder at the Vicarage.’ I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.
There’s nothing in the Bible that says, ‘You must play video games.’
Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don’t be intimidated. Read your Bible. That’s really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God’s name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.
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.’
I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.
The Qur’an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.
You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.
The voters of each Congressional district select the representative that they choose to represent them, and perhaps voters in all districts will now ask prospective candidates whether they will use the Bible, the Koran, or anything else.
Biblical movies need not sermonize, just be honest to the foundational story. As powerful as the message is for people of faith, it’s really great storytelling.
Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That’s not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it’s a witness to God making it down to the worst people.
Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
I’m not a religious person, but I read the Bible many years ago.
But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.
A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.
I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.
There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don’t care how many Bibles you put your hand on.
I’m a classic Church of England member, but part of its strength is the fact that it doesn’t ask us to sign up to too much of a canon… but I’ve always found the teachings of Jesus and the Bible quite useful as a sort of handy guide.
Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.
To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast. You go over the initial script with them and listen to the way they talk. Then you try to do a rewrite to accommodate them.
This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
‘The Fades’ is its own world. If you try and link it to some religion, you have people going, ‘Oh, that’s not right,’ with their Bible open. Let’s just chuck some imagination at it.
The Bible doesn’t sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
I have seen women literally run into the abortion facility because someone was yelling Bible verses at them or pushing a graphic image in their faces.
If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.
I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I’ve read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it’s the same.
I study the Bible constantly. I teach the Bible. You know, I’m a Bible conductor, and I have a lot of people studies. But also, I see how small things really help people to get over humps in their life. Gives them direction.
Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone’s Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did.
When you have a biblical idea of men’s strength, you know that God only gives us anything good to be used for his purposes and mainly to serve others.
Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.
Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.
Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.
I believe that a man called Jesus did walk the earth at one time but I don’t think he was the superhero that the Bible makes him out to be.
‘Noah,’ for me, wasn’t a decision about taking on the Bible. It was about working with Darren Aronofsky.
Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.
The Bible does not isolate war, as if it were something separate and unique and quite apart, as we tend to do in our thinking. It is but one of the manifestations of sin, one of the consequences of sin.
The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer!
I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don’t agree with organized religion in that respect.
Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.
Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.
With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country’s inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem – and largely a hindrance, not an asset.
One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it’s sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what’s in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
I once wrote that the first week in Jerusalem was the hardest week of my life. I was different, other; my clothes were different, as was my language. All of the classes were in Hebrew – science, bible, literature. I sat there not understanding one word. When I tried to speak, everyone would laugh at me.
I knew that Jesus loved me, not because the Bible told me so but because my heart was informed by love. And later, for that same reason, I knew I was attracted to boys.
Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn’t fit the findings of science.
We must, from the highest office in the land right down to the shoeshine boy in the airport, have a return to biblical basics.
There are two methods for the literary study of any book – the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.
I’m very proud of all my children. They all have Christian families; they read the Bible; they pray; the kids go to Sunday school; they know the Ten Commandments by heart. That’s my greatest honor, and I couldn’t do anything to glorify God that could surpass that. That’s very meaningful.
