List Of 50 Bible Quotes About Love, Life, Faith, And Hope:
#1 Samuel Butler
”The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”
#2 Victor Hugo
“England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England.”
#3 Abraham Lincoln
“Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man.”
#4 D.L. Moody
“Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.”
#5 Hillary Clinton
“In the Bible, it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I’m keeping a chart.”
#6 Prince
”The Bible is a study guide for social interaction.”
#7 Desmond Tutu
”When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
#8 Martin Luther
”God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.”
#9 The Bible
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast.”
#10 Oscar Wilde
“When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.”
#11 Dan Brown
“You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.”
#12 D.A. Carson
“We are dealing with God’s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.”
#13 Alistair Begg
“A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this–not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit.”
#14 Anatole France
“We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
#15 Noam Chomsky
“The Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.”
#16 John Marsden
“The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.”
#17 Mark Driscoll
“If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.”
#18 The Bible
“Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
#19 Charles Spurgeon
“A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.”
#20 George Bernard Shaw
“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.”
#21 Thomas Paine
“It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
#22 Soren A. Kierkegaard
“The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.”
#23 Bill Maher
“I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.”
#24 Augustine
“If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”
#25 Albert Einstein
“The word ‘God’ is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.”
#26 Ruth Hurmence Green
“I studied every page of this book, and I didn’t find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.”
#27 Joseph Campbell
“When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual’s own spiritual experience is lost. (111)”
#28 Dan Savage
“The Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.”
#29 The Bible
“No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.”
#30 Ronald Reagan
“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”
#31 Marcus J. Borg
“Christianity’s goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better.”
#32 Joni Eareckson Tada
“The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.”
#33 Steven Weinberg
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil – that takes religion.”
#34 Aleister Crowley
“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”
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#35 Frank Sinatra
“Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
#36 The Bible
“Lady Wisdom will be your close friend; and Brother Knowledge will be your pleasant companion.”
#37 David Livingstone
“All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.”
#38 St. Augustine of Hippo
“The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.”
#39 The Bible
“If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”
#40 Mark Twain
“The Bible has noble poetry in it… and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.”
#41 Charles C. Ryrie
“The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.”
#42 Bart Ehrman
“Different authors have different points of view. You can’t just say, ‘I believe in the Bible.”
#43 The Bible
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”
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#44 Louis Zamperini
“The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people’s throats.”
#45 Isaac Asimov
“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
#46 D.L. Moody
“The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.”
#47 Horace Greeley
“It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
#48 St. Augustine of Hippo
“The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.”
#49 Steve Maraboli
“Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.”
#50 Harper Lee
“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
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