Bible Quotes

"If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

"George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened"

Howard Nemerov, Poet

"We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

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

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that"

Harper Lee, Novelist

"The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs"

Bill Maher, Comedian

"Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it"

Dorothy Kilgallen, Actress

"The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat"

Lillian Hellman, Dramatist

"The man I lived with is a Christian, so I would talk to him about it. What would this person do in the Bible? What's the story around this person? Generally, when people talk about characters in the Bible, there's one thing they're known for, like Job"

Lucinda Williams, Musician

"Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology"

Richard King, Director

"But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One"

Leo Strauss, Philosopher

"On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine"

Duke Ellington, Musician

"It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host"

Jim Bakker, Celebrity

"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, Celebrity

"Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done"

Jim Wallis, Writer

"Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible"

John Astin, Actor

"The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital"

Al Capp, Cartoonist

"God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible"

Leo Strauss, Philosopher

"The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian"

Aiden Wilson Tozer, Clergyman

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

Dwight L. Moody, Clergyman

"I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me"

Dwight L. Moody, Clergyman

"There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible"

Paul Ricoeur, Philosopher