Bible Quotes

"If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things"

Richard Cecil, Clergyman

"If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible"

Jerry Falwell, Clergyman

"God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages"

Jerry Falwell, Clergyman

"After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son"

Josh McDowell, Writer

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

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open"

Victoria Jackson, Comedian

"The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions"

Valentina Tereshkova, Astronaut

"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"

Noah Webster, Writer

"The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions"

Noah Webster, Writer

"Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village"

Michael Scott

"Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science"

Clyde Tombaugh, Scientist

"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"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church"

Lee Greenwood, Musician

"It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion"

Noah Webster, Writer

"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"

Dave Mustaine, Musician

"The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study"

Philip Schaff, Theologian

"I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible"

Hunter Tylo, Actress

"No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake"

Walter Lang, Director

"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"

Herschel Walker, Athlete

"Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible"

Walter Lang, Director

"The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another"

Adam Clarke, Theologian

"For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth"

Clayton Christensen, Businessman

"My mother loved the Bible"

Goldie Hawn, Actress

"As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ"

Clayton Christensen, Businessman

"The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved"

Foxy Brown, Musician

"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"

Joe Klein, Journalist

"I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God and how it relates to us and how we can change to become more like him"

Bernhard Langer, Athlete

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

Cliff Richard, Musician

"I have tried to have a regular daily intake from my Bible, regardless of how late it is"

Cliff Richard, Musician

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

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic"

Amy Tan, Novelist

"Oddly enough, George Pal always began and ended something with The Bible. All his pictures had a religious undertone. God was always there, protecting us"

Ann Robinson, Actress

"I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it"

Joseph Barbera, Cartoonist

"I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education"

Tallulah Bankhead, Actress

"I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love"

Willie Aames, Actor

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