Bible Quotes

"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"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God"

Jerry Falwell, Clergyman

"I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me"

Art Linkletter, Journalist

"There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible"

Mark Rylance, Actor

"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"

Troy Perry, Clergyman

"If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth"

Lee Greenwood, Musician

"However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man"

Walter Martin, Clergyman

"Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language"

Fisher Ames, Statesman

"In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu"

Benjamin Netanyahu, Leader

"I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me"

Jensen Ackles, Actor

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

Cliff Richard, Musician

"It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land"

Rod Parsley, Celebrity

"Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion"

Lisa Bonet, Actress

"I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kidding"

Brian Littrell, Musician

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

Hugh Blair, Theologian

"Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof"

Isaac Mayer Wise, Clergyman

"Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible"

Victoria Jackson, Comedian

"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible"

Van Wyck Brooks, Critic

"What Jerry has done, in a masterful way, is go through and select portions of the Scripture and put words in Jesus' mouth that are legitimate because they already appear in the Bible"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"The tribulation period is seven years, and when the signing of the covenant occurs, people who know the Bible and take it literally will know that, seven years later, Christ is going to come in His power and glory"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

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

William Floyd, Politician

"For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her"

Randy Travis, Musician

"I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible"

James Paget, Scientist

"The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator"

Fulton Oursler

"The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest"

Albert Barnes, Theologian

"It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God"

Albert Barnes, Theologian

"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"

Reggie White, Athlete

"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.""

Ray Charles, Musician

"But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms"

Ellen G. White, Writer

"If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it"

Bruce Cockburn, Musician

"When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data"

Henry M. Morris, Celebrity

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

William B. Riley

"The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man"

John Barth, Novelist

"But when you take the Bible literally, for what it says, you have to come back to the fact that there is only one way of salvation; there's only one Savior"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision"

Lynn Lavner, Comedian

"Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

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