Bible Quotes

"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

"Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"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

"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

"The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"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

"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

"We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"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

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

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"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 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

"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

"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

"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

"This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people'"

John Wycliffe, Theologian

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

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy"

Frank Sinatra, Musician

"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"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

"Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all"

Heywood Broun, Journalist

"The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible"

Amy Grant, Musician

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

Leo Strauss, Philosopher

"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

"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"

Alex Chiu, Businessman

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

Anita Diament, Author

"We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible"

Peter Agre, Scientist

"The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both"

Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Clergyman

"There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do"

John Harvey Kellogg, Businessman

"The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible"

Max Muller, Educator

"The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction"

Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Clergyman

"The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man"

Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Clergyman

"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

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