Bible without doubt is more than a book, for hundreds of thousands of people living on earth. Bible is the light for their life. Here is the collection of best 1000 Bible Quotes by famous people. It’s a collection of motivational quotes from different angles. You’ll find quotes on strength, about life, love, faith, happy, God, being wise and so on. Some are short while some are long.
Bible Quotes
1. I love the Bible. – Alan Dershowitz
2. My mother loved the Bible. – Goldie Hawn
3. I have a Bible near my bed. – Donald Trump
4. I read the Bible every day. – Denzel Washington
5. The Bible is a history book. – Amar’e Stoudemire
6. Biblical names are hot again. – Anita Diament
7. I hate the Bible. I always did. – Mary Daly
8. I know all the books of the Bible. – Hailey Baldwin
9. The Bible is literature, not dogma. – George Santayana
10. The Bible is the fountain of truth. – Joseph Franklin Rutherford
11. Everything in the Bible is miraculous. – Reinhard Bonnke
12. The Bible is the inerrant word of God. – Paula White
13. The violence in the Bible is appalling. – Christopher Hitchens
14. The Bible is my sport psychology manual. – Katie Taylor
15. The Bible is God’s sacred Word of truth. – Joseph Franklin Rutherford
16. The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum. – Franz Kafka
17. The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine. – Ellen G. White
18. My mother read me biblical stories at night. – Malcolm Gladwell
19. Is there a more violent book than the Bible? – George Pelecanos
20. You stick to the script, the script is Bible. – Jennifer Garner
21. Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud. – Yair Lapid
22. The Bible is not only laws, it’s also stories. – Elie Wiesel
23. If you look in the Bible there’s no birthdays. – Prince
24. I grew up Southern Baptist. In the Bible Belt. – Harry Dean Stanton
25. I deal with more practical issues of the Bible. – Joel Osteen
26. The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid. – Martin Luther
27. The Bible was written by fallible human beings. – Richard Dawkins
28. I think Bible principles are principles for life. – Joel Osteen
29. The Bible is a study guide for social interaction. – Prince
30. I think of the Bible as an unauthorized biography. – John Prine
31. Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor. – Muhammad Ali
32. The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests. – Andrew Jackson
33. I never read a self-help book except for the Bible. – Jon Heder
34. I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me. – Dwight L. Moody
35. The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. – Heinrich Heine
36. Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. – Penn Jillette
37. Everyone has their opinions about the Bible and God. – Jessica McDonald
38. That’s country music for you – bourbon and the Bible. – Dave Haywood
39. I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive. – Mr. T
40. Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible. – Whittaker Chambers
41. Where in the Bible does it say I have to drive a Honda? – Benny Hinn
42. I cannot hate, because my Bible teaches me not to hate. – Anthony Ray Hinton
43. The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. – Noam Chomsky
44. In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother’s milk. – Karin Slaughter
45. Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me. – Dwight L. Moody
46. Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us. – LaDainian Tomlinson
47. There’s nothing in the Bible that talks about retirement. – Greg Gianforte
48. The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. – Dyan Cannon
49. The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs. – Bill Maher
50. I think there’s some pretty amazing language in the Bible. – Win Butler
51. Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain. – Billy Graham
52. I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover. – Billy Sunday
53. I have friends that are gay, and we study the Bible together. – Prince
54. I always go to church on Sundays and Bible study on Tuesdays. – Lil’ Kim
55. I’m not religious. But I grew up religious in the Bible Belt. – Samuel Ervin Beam
56. I’ve read the Bible before, a couple of times cover to cover. – Trai Byers
57. I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel. – Gabby Douglas
58. I was taught in Bible college, religion and politics don’t mix. – Jerry Falwell
59. Give me any two pages of the Bible and I’ll give you a picture. – Cecil B. DeMille
60. Even Superman’s name reflects his creators’ biblical knowledge. – Bruce Feiler
61. There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible. – Karen Kingsbury
62. I don’t worship the Bible, I worship the God who gave the Bible. – Michael Eric Dyson
63. The Bible is not man’s word about God, but God’s word about man. – John Barth
64. I’m not a religious person, but I read the Bible many years ago. – Cody Fern
65. Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar. – Kathie Lee Gifford
66. I make notebooks for characters, and it kind of becomes a bible. – Morgan Saylor
67. The Bible is referred to in scripture as the sword of the spirit. – Andy Mineo
68. I knew all the right Bible answers and the Sunday school answers. – Ben Zobrist
69. My books are personal: I’m not saying they’re the Bible of music. – Eddie Trunk
70. I grew up with the Bible education, and my values come from there. – Kaka
71. For us Icelanders, the Sagas are like the Bible, only much better. – Hallgrimur Helgason
72. The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history. – Simon Schama
73. The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. – Galileo Galilei
74. The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed. – Patrick Henry
75. Hmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape. – Mr. T
76. The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. – Thomas Huxley
77. There’s nothing in the Bible that says, ‘You must play video games.’ – Ralph H. Baer
78. The Bible is God’s Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man. – Joseph Franklin Rutherford
79. But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One. – Leo Strauss
80. Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. – Frank Sinatra
81. Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology. – Richard King
82. The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible. – Dwight L. Moody
83. The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects. – Ezra Taft Benson
84. God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages. – Jerry Falwell
85. I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible. – Hunter Tylo
86. I toy around with the whole Biblical thing, just as amazing characters. – Isaac Brock
87. The Bible says that you marry for life, okay. It’s a lifetime decision. – Si Robertson
88. The only reason I’d bring a Bible out here is if I needed toilet paper. – Rudy Boesch
89. A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. – Theodore Roosevelt
90. If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it. – William Jennings Bryan
91. I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God. – Jerry Falwell
92. I read ‘The Original Beauty Bible’ when I was 16, and it changed my life. – Andreja Pejic
93. How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt. – Arthur Hertzberg
94. Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. – William Blake
95. I can write 100 books on the wisdom and lessons from stories in the Bible. – Paula White
96. God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible. – Leo Strauss
97. I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right. – Billy Graham
98. I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end. – John McAfee
99. Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. – Hosea Ballou
100. I do not have, and never had, any interest in either the Bible or religion. – Joseph Heller
101. I believe in the Bible, and I believe in Jesus. It’s a big part of my life. – Matt Lanter
102. There’s no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself. – Dwight L. Moody
103. Biblical justice is the equitable application of God’s moral law in society. – Tony Evans
104. The Bible tells us that we’re supposed to leave an inheritance for children. – Marvin Sapp
105. Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine? – Marguerite Young
106. Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face. – Ronald Reagan
107. The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit. – Ellen G. White
108. There’s a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me. – Taya Kyle
109. I love the expression that ‘When your Bible is falling apart, the man isn’t.’ – Jordin Sparks
110. The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah’s Witnesses. – Cliff Richard
111. I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach. – Mr. T
112. The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman. – Billy Graham
113. We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible. – Penelope Lively
114. Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. – Francis Schaeffer
115. People are religious about comics the way people are religious about the Bible. – Josh Trank
116. The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don’t understand it. – George Santayana
117. No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way. – Anne Lamott
118. Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity. – Jesmyn Ward
119. This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people. – John Wycliffe
120. If I’m home on Wednesdays, I go to Bible study. I get my God time in, definitely. – Yvonne Orji
121. Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction ‘Love the neighbor as thyself.’ – George McGovern
122. You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible. – Tim LaHaye
123. There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history. – Isaac Newton
124. I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time. – Alan Dershowitz
125. One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature. – Jay Parini
126. I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority. – Billy Graham
127. Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it’s usually too late? – Christopher Morley
128. The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin. – P. J. O’Rourke
129. The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. – Samuel Butler
130. The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel. – Tullian Tchividjian
131. I read the Bible every day, study it, and share with my wife the blessings of faith. – Edinson Cavani
132. The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting. – Rob Portman
133. Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
134. The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice. – Joni Eareckson Tada
135. If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right. – Ricky Williams
136. We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible. – Robert Duvall
137. The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. – Robert Green Ingersoll
138. The more people marginalize the true God of the Bible, the more chaotic things become. – Tony Evans
139. I am a company in myself. My repertoire has become a bible for all mimes in the world. – Marcel Marceau
140. You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York. – William Lyon Phelps
141. I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible. – Amy Grant
142. The Bible doesn’t sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it. – Jud Wilhite
143. When I have the Bible memorised, then I’ll be able to go and read a couple other books. – Stephen Baldwin
144. The score is not a bible, and I am never afraid to dare. The music is behind those dots. – Vladimir Horowitz
145. The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture. – Mike Huckabee
146. I have tried to have a regular daily intake from my Bible, regardless of how late it is. – Cliff Richard
147. Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written. – Steve Scalise
148. Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. – Adam Hamilton
149. Drosnin’s ‘The Bible Code’ would hardly be worth mentioning were it not such a smash hit. – Benjamin Wittes
150. Largely, the people driving abolition did it because of what they believed from the Bible. – Eric Metaxas
151. The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed. – Tullian Tchividjian
152. What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It’s not there. – Eduardo Galeano
153. My mom gave me the children stories of the Bible. I memorized that book at the age of nine. – Rza
154. I’m running my life according to what I know to be true from the Bible and the old scribes. – Glen Campbell
155. The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it’s a bit of a mistake. – Neko Case
156. By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart. – Jay Parini
157. Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone’s past sins and throw them in their face. – Vance McAllister
158. I homeschool, so the start of the day is reading Bible scripture, memorization, and prayer. – Jodi Benson
159. We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible. – Peter Agre
160. I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet. – Walter Martin
161. I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real. – Austin Peck
162. As we move into the 21st century, there’s what the Bible calls a ‘quickening of the spirit.’ – Neale Donald Walsch
163. It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. – Thomas Paine
164. To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry. – N. T. Wright
165. I’ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, ‘This is fiction.’ – Ian Mckellen
166. There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible. – Mark Rylance
167. The role we have in work may change over time, but the concept of retirement is not biblical. – Greg Gianforte
168. I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to. – Zig Ziglar
169. And well historically it’s never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters. – Daniel Radcliffe
170. I’m a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means. – Tammy Faye Bakker
171. There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence. – Louis Gossett, Jr.
172. I don’t understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game. – Johnny Damon
173. Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion. – Billy Graham
174. Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles. – Zsa Zsa Gabor
175. The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. – Alfred North Whitehead
176. I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education. – Tallulah Bankhead
177. Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that’s exactly what it means. – Tim LaHaye
178. In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength. – Robert E. Lee
179. I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster. – E. O. Wilson
180. Where I’m from, you’re a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible. – Lamar Odom
181. I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ. – Tullian Tchividjian
182. The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is. – Jupiter Hammon
183. They’re desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open. – Victoria Jackson
184. I’m a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends. – Paul Begala
185. While the Bible’s account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation. – Ken Ham
186. The Bible for me is holy writ. It’s a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist. – Marilynne Robinson
187. Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose. – Jonathan Raban
188. Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. – Walter Cronkite
189. If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass. – Evel Knievel
190. Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it’s not like it’s a bible. – Javier Bardem
191. In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. – James McHenry
192. A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth. – Walter Martin
193. The Bible is not an antiquated text. The scriptures are the text that will lead us into the future. – Erwin McManus
194. The Bible never divorces the truth of Christ’s future return with our present-day responsibilities. – Robert Jeffress
195. The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
196. I don’t think it says anywhere in the Bible that tithing should be calculated on a before-tax basis. – Richard Thaler
197. A secular worldview hostile to biblical values has overrun our culture and permeated our government. – Franklin Graham
198. The Bible – it’s sort of the other person in the room. There’s this book, the reader, and the Bible. – Anita Diament
199. This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do. – Joel Osteen
200. Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going ‘Where did I say build a water slide?’ – Sam Kinison
201. Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is ‘The Origin of Species.’ – Kirk Cameron
202. Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it. – Cliff Richard
203. Yeah, I have been because, generally speaking, to we Biblical literalists, the media is very hostile. – Tim LaHaye
204. The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. – Mark Twain
205. The Bible says, ‘Judge not lest ye be judged.’ Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms. – Tammy Faye Bakker
206. The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact. – Arthur Smith
207. The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours – and I think probably gave me many nightmares. – Eleanor Roosevelt
208. Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all. – Heywood Broun
209. When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand. – Barry White
210. I did as much theater as I could. I worked at a theme park and a Bible theater and a community theater. – Cailee Spaeny
211. The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education – it lays out all the early books of the Bible. – Peter Greenaway
212. ‘Noah,’ for me, wasn’t a decision about taking on the Bible. It was about working with Darren Aronofsky. – Douglas Booth
213. Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, man’s highest faculty. – Edward McKendree Bounds
214. I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn’t much like it. – Joseph Barbera
215. God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. – Martin Luther
216. George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God’s records of right and wrong are kept. – Randall Terry
217. I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor. – John McGahern
218. If you look at the Bible as a whole, it’s redemptive and beautiful, and it’s God’s love story to mankind. – Tom Shadyac
219. Anyone that’s ever listened to my message knows very well, that I believe in very solid biblical beliefs. – Paula White
220. I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box – just kidding. – Brian Littrell
221. No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. – George Bernard Shaw
222. A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian. – Richard Dawkins
223. I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover. – Joe R. Lansdale
224. I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That’s why people love me. – Art Linkletter
225. If I have to filibuster on the Senate floor, I’ll even read the King James Bible until the wall is funded. – Luther Strange
226. The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose. – Melvyn Bragg
227. Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God’s love in Christ, must come from the Bible. – Walter Lang
228. This actual question of ‘Why does God allow war?’ is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones
229. When I place my hand on the Bible and take the oath of office, that oath becomes my highest promise to God. – Mitt Romney
230. The Bible is the book of my life. It’s the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by. – N. T. Wright
231. Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible. – John Astin
232. Stories about travelers coming into town and doing good have been part of our storytelling since the Bible. – Dean Devlin
233. Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason. – Jon Meacham
234. I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God. – Tony Campolo
235. The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints. – David Augsburger
236. When you’re building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there’s no bible. – Rachel Keller
237. The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner. – Billy Graham
238. I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get. – Johnny Cash
239. God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
240. Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city. – Meir Kahane
241. I tell about some of the female characters from the Bible so girls can be inspired and empowered and uplifted. – Roma Downey
242. In college, I joined a team Bible study. God’s Word brought me peace and a desire for a relationship with Him. – Clint Dempsey
243. It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. – Mark Twain
244. People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible – they just don’t actually read the Bible. – John Ortberg
245. My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it’s definitely tough getting through. – Pamela Anderson
246. Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages. – Cameron Diaz
247. I believe God weeps over – over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death. – Steven Curtis Chapman
248. As your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington D.C. – Paul Broun
249. I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God. – Anne Lamott
250. In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study. – Norman Lamm
251. When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life. – Annie Dillard
252. The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it. – Rob Bell
253. We have to take the biblical truth and start applying it in the statehouse, the schoolhouse, and the marketplace. – Rod Parsley
254. Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible. – Christopher Hitchens
255. I don’t doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil! – Tony Campolo
256. The Qur’an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent. – G. Willow Wilson
257. 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
258. I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me. – Kesha
259. The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ. – John Piper
260. I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that’ll shape ideas about how words can move the world. – Naomi Alderman
261. As I got older, I got closer to my faith and I got closer to Jesus, reading the Bible and living my life under God. – Antonio Sabato, Jr.
262. You don’t have to be a Fundamentalist Christian to be interested in the Bible. It’s really a fascinating mythology. – Robert Crumb
263. If you need help, look to clergy who do not spout their own beliefs but direct you in sincerity by using the Bible. – Monica Johnson
264. I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible. – Dan Shechtman
265. The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is. – Ernest Hello
266. I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical. – Joel Osteen
267. If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible… now there’s the complete package of womanhood. – Phil Robertson
268. I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin. – Joel Edgerton
269. I don’t like to lay down on my food – it’s not good for you. I like to take a walk, then meditate and read the Bible. – Andre Ward
270. 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
271. I was offered the opportunity to narrate the Catholic bible, and it was something I really wanted to be involved with. – John Rhys-Davies
272. 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
273. 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
274. The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it’s a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff. – Robert Crumb
275. The one and true God of the Bible does not share His glory with any man or anyone else. There is only room for one God. – Monica Johnson
276. The Bible is very clear that God has a purpose. But even if I know that purpose, I can’t fulfill it if I’m out of shape. – Rick Warren
277. I read my Bible and I pray and all of that. I really do. But at the same time, I don’t think being gay is a sin. Period. – Kristin Chenoweth
278. The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion. – Pope Shenouda III
279. President Trump is the greatest thing that’s happened to this country. I consider it a biblical miracle that he’s there. – Luther Strange
280. 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
281. The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another. – Adam Hamilton
282. The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it’s a product of the scientific revolution. – Reza Aslan
283. I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. – Isaac Newton
284. People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible. – S. Jay Olshansky
285. Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence. – Edward McKendree Bounds
286. The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit. – Jim Hightower
287. As Christians, we often tend to get our Bible doctrine confused and start mixing truths that were never meant to be mixed. – Tony Evans
288. Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn’t fit the findings of science. – Clyde Tombaugh
289. What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It’s biblical, it’s huge. It’s so personal. – Emilio Estevez
290. Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed. – Billy Graham
291. I have no belief in The Bible or religion, but I think Armageddon was a lucky guess. I honestly think it’s going to happen. – George Michael
292. The Bible clearly says that when we have a problem with our brother, we are to go to them and try to resolve the situation. – Dave Ramsey
293. It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible – the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes. – Alice Morse Earle
294. I’ve managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, ‘Man cannot have too many shotguns and fishing poles.’ – Norman Schwarzkopf
295. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
296. 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
297. The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. – Dan Savage
298. Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. – Rafael Cruz
299. 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
300. We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion. – Erwin McManus
301. The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there’s some things worth dying for. – Rick Warren
302. There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage. – Ted Cruz
303. We must, from the highest office in the land right down to the shoeshine boy in the airport, have a return to biblical basics. – Jerry Falwell
304. If something happens to me tomorrow, I’m going to go to Heaven, and that’s for sure because God’s promised to us in the Bible. – Albert Pujols
305. When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent. – Michel Houellebecq
306. The Bible is a novel that’s crazy… it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war, sanctification. – Fred Hammond
307. My family’s a huge fan of ‘Lord of the Rings.’ My dad probably preaches from ‘Lord of the Rings’ as much as he does the Bible. – Sarah Drew
308. The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer! – Ken Bruen
309. That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. – Thomas Paine
310. Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian. – Kirk Cameron
311. God’s glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it’s all about God’s glory. – Max Lucado
312. From America’s schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments. – Pat Buchanan
313. I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there’s a lot more to things than we see. – Rodney Mullen
314. The Sermon on the Mount is a very nice piece about being good, but most of the Bible is a very revengeful, childish, brutal God. – Stellan Skarsgard
315. When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write. – Taylor Negron
316. To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible? – Queen Elizabeth II
317. The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history. – John Shelby Spong
318. 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
319. The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools. – Billy Sunday
320. I don’t leave home without my Skullcandy Crushers. I don’t leave home without my Bible, without my phone, and without my computer. – Kyrie Irving
321. Whenever my dad wasn’t working, he’d take me along to pass out biblical tracts on street corners or in visits to the local prison. – Tony Evans
322. Where I come from you’re not raised to think on your own. It’s not that you’re pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you. – Abel Ferrara
323. Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience. – James McHenry
324. In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given. – Desmond Tutu
325. I was raised Jehovah’s Witness. I was in Bible school at five or six years old, but I wouldn’t say that we were a religious family. – Patti Smith
326. My siblings and I grew up studying from both the Bhagavad-Gita and the Bible, going to Mass, and then coming home to a yoga kirtan. – Tulsi Gabbard
327. 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
328. When I wrote ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible. – Dan Brown
329. When I came to faith, I was on pro-choice boards, and I dropped off of those because you couldn’t read the Bible and be pro-choice. – Bob Beckel
330. Church was a requirement – there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid. – Queen Latifah
331. There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian. – John Piper
332. Although all serious Christians recognize the importance that the Bible places on prayer, most fall short when it comes to doing it. – Tony Evans
333. I want to give my respect, glory and time to the Bible – to the word of God – just as I want to give my respect and time to my work. – Mariano Rivera
334. The Bible refers to the Word as ‘the sword of the Spirit.’ What battles are you not winning if you are not equipped with your sword? – Monica Johnson
335. 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
336. For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality. – Meir Soloveichik
337. One of my pet peeves about biblical epics was that the characters’ costumes always looked like they’re just out of the dry cleaners. – Roma Downey
338. I went to film school, and I came in when video art was king, weird stuff was king, and there, you don’t have a script as your bible. – Jonathan Krisel
339. One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more. – Hedy Lamarr
340. I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, ‘Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?’ – Neil Peart
341. My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions. – Elayne Boosler
342. While the Bible teaches that immortality of the soul is conditional upon well-doing, it makes no distinction in respect of the spirit. – Max Heindel
343. I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that’s the kind of stuff that still makes my brain work. – Win Butler
344. The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. – M. H. Abrams
345. Like everyone else, I love ‘Born Again:’ that was a seminal work for me. Everything Frank Miller did on ‘Daredevil’ is like the Bible. – Drew Goddard
346. The punishment of shaving a woman’s head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths. – Antony Beevor
347. Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away. – Lafcadio Hearn
348. You don’t have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work. – S. Truett Cathy
349. The figure of Satan and the fires of hell have been demythologized by modern Christian biblical scholars, theologians and philosophers. – John Bradshaw
350. We had no television, and I only heard the radio when my parents went out to a Bible study group. They liked a quiet, meditative house. – Lizz Wright
351. I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don’t agree with organized religion in that respect. – Hunter Parrish
352. 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
353. The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you. – Billy Graham
354. I love David’s attitude in the Bible. He wasn’t afraid to go against the trends. He wasn’t going to be defined by the opinions of others. – Victoria Osteen
355. I started saying things in church that didn’t meet with a lot of approval – like ‘Jesus isn’t coming back.’ They started throwing Bibles. – Sam Kinison
356. Flannery O’Connor is my creative hero. I think she’s the greatest American writer. Her book, ‘Mystery and Manners,’ is my creative bible. – Scott Derrickson
357. I think there’s nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs. – Peter Agre
358. The Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve. – Billy Graham
359. I’d lived in West Virginia on and off for four to five years growing up. I’m familiar with Bible Belt, with Appalachia, ‘Hillbilly Elegy.’ – Antoni Porowski
360. At the end of the day, I always maintain you can substitute ‘The Book of Mormon’ for ‘The Bible: The Musical’ or ‘The Quran: The Musical.’ – Gavin Creel
361. All I’m going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida. – Pam Bondi
362. The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character. – Edward McKendree Bounds
363. I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible. – Ted Cruz
364. The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua. – Lawrence M. Krauss
365. It’s an honor to stand for God, and if we want to know where we should be standing, the red letters in the Bible will never steer us wrong. – Monica Johnson
366. 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
367. I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama’s boy. It was a pretty happy childhood. – Woody Harrelson
368. My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer. – Roma Downey
369. In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
370. I haven’t read enough of the Bible. You know, I’m saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible. – Barbara Ehrenreich
371. I gave up writing for seven years (very biblical) and picked it up again, still clueless and still seeking the exotic, when I was twenty-one. – David Bergen
372. 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
373. 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
374. I don’t believe that the Earth’s but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That’s what the Bible says. – Paul Broun
375. Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible? – Tony Campolo
376. Jesus is the only way because the Bible says it to be true. Why? Because only He can bridge the gap between God and man; there’s no other way. – Norman Geisler
377. The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text – to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote. – Leland Ryken
378. As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible. – Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
379. 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
380. Well, traditionally, how I grew up, I grew up in the Baptist Church, always going to church every Sunday, Sunday school, vacation Bible school. – Jameis Winston
381. In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions. – Reza Aslan
382. It’s not without its flaws – it’s still the South and the Bible Belt – but Atlanta is one of those cities that’s really good at uniting people. – Brian Tyree Henry
383. When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect. – Etgar Keret
384. What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour. – Walter Martin
385. My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought. – Jim Butcher
386. I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness. – Elie Wiesel
387. Carry your Bible and live by it. There’s a better chance that you will stay married if that much is true for either one of you – male or female. – Phil Robertson
388. When I was in elementary school, I was a big fan of the zip-off pants that could be turned into shorts. The Delia’s catalog used to be my bible. – Hayley Williams
389. Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals. – Rene Girard
390. Whether Trump knew it or not, his strong language tapped into evangelical beliefs about the ‘last days’ and America’s role in biblical prophecy. – Anthea Butler
391. You can’t understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can’t recognise biblical allusions. – Richard Dawkins
392. The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord’s discipline – whether nations, cities, or individuals – suffer devastating consequences. – Charles Stanley
393. After ‘The Poisonwood Bible’ was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth. – Barbara Kingsolver
394. I know that Christ doesn’t say it’s gonna be an easy life, but he’s there to get us through it. I believe with all my heart the Bible to be true. – Candace Cameron Bure
395. Forgiveness is a spiritual practice and biblical mandate from the New Testament that many American Christians engage in as a part of their faith. – Anthea Butler
396. 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
397. And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better. – John D. Rockefeller
398. The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven. – Rick Warren
399. You may have an older audience in front of you holding the Bible and a younger audience holding an iPhone. You don’t want to lose either audience. – Tony Evans
400. Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible. – Cynthia Ozick
401. I don’t claim to be someone that knows every verse in the Bible. I wish I did. I truly do. It just means I need to spend more time in those pages. – Elisabeth Hasselbeck
402. 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
403. The subject of angels and demons really grabbed me. There is a huge mass of information, and the Bible is one of the most amazing reference points. – Alexandra Adornetto
404. I grew up spending a lot of time in church, almost every day, whether in choir rehearsal or praise team or Bible study – there was always a reason. – Danielle Brooks
405. One of the ways I learned how to act, really, is by having secrets and having to function as a kid in a public school in suburban Bible Belt Texas. – Matt Bomer
406. I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it. – Adam Hamilton
407. When I raise my hand to take the oath on Swearing In Day, I will have the Bible in my other hand. I do not subscribe to using the Koran in any way. – Virgil Goode
408. 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
409. The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things. – Ezra Taft Benson
410. According to the Bible, sex isn’t something sinful, but rather a wonderful gift from God to be thoroughly enjoyed within the boundaries of marriage. – Ray Comfort
411. I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of things I’d been taught. – Edward Ruscha
412. The Hebrew Bible, while firmly opposing pagan sexual practices, nevertheless celebrates man’s and woman’s desire for each other as divinely designed. – Meir Soloveichik
413. If we believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, then we shouldn’t be recognizing it only as a book of historical and economic significance. – Bill Haslam
414. The goal was not only to teach people the Bible and minister to people personally and spiritually, but also to build a church to be community focused. – Tony Evans
415. My parents aren’t crazy conservative. They’re actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I’m from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt. – Kacey Musgraves
416. I have seen women literally run into the abortion facility because someone was yelling Bible verses at them or pushing a graphic image in their faces. – Abby Johnson
417. When you have a biblical idea of men’s strength, you know that God only gives us anything good to be used for his purposes and mainly to serve others. – Eric Metaxas
418. Hip-hop has always been about keeping it authentic and being authentically you. That is what I try to do in my music and when I speak about the Bible. – Andy Mineo
419. Once I started first grade, I started going to Emmanuel Baptist Church regularly. I went to Sunday school. We had Bible readings and things like that. – Wesley Clark
420. I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It’s pretty wild. I hadn’t heard of it until I was in college. – Tom Perrotta
421. I would respectfully disagree that the right to own a military-style weapon is a God-given right. I didn’t see that anywhere in the Bible that I read. – Chris Murphy
422. In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I’m keeping a chart. – Hillary Clinton
423. There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity. – John Piper
424. Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story… travelling on the donkey in a stressful environment. – Michael Leunig
425. 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
426. There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration… as if sanctification happens as a result of emulation. – Tullian Tchividjian
427. If we read the Bible asking first, ‘What would Jesus do?’ instead of asking ‘What has Jesus done,’ we’ll miss the good news that alone can set us free. – Tullian Tchividjian
428. The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any hint of unholiness. – Tullian Tchividjian
429. The Bible gives a true and trustworthy account of creation, and that account in no way conflicts with or contradicts an old-Earth view, and vice versa. – Hugh Ross
430. There were questions I didn’t have the answers to, and I was trying to figure it out. I remember staying up until 4 A.M. reading the Bible and praying. – Burgess Owens
431. 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
432. If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they’d proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible. – Marisha Pessl
433. I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam. – George Carlin
434. I’m not a religious person; I’m more of a spiritual person, so I follow the rules of the Bible that coordinate with and connect with the Hebrew culture. – Amar’e Stoudemire
435. Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters. – Anita Diament
436. 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 Babington Macaulay
437. I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy. – Anne Graham Lotz
438. If you come at the Bible as if it’s a document of encyclopedic information, you’ve pretty much killed any kind of life change in a seeker and unbeliever. – Erwin McManus
439. 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
440. As Luke 24 shows, it’s possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible. – Tullian Tchividjian
441. When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12. – Jordin Sparks
442. ‘Morning Star’ is the light that many sailors would use to guide them. But it’s also referenced twice in the Bible – once for Lucifer and once for Jesus. – Pierce Brown
443. The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book. – Leland Ryken
444. The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine – but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously. – Joseph Joubert
445. If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is? – J. C. Ryle
446. Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well. – Roy H. Williams
447. We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness. – Tullian Tchividjian
448. Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying ‘the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it. What it says is this.’ – Elaine Pagels
449. As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality. – William A. Dembski
450. Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just. – Jeanne Phillips
451. When you look at the teachings of the Bible, it’s pretty dark with Revelations, the Holy Ghost and everything, so hence the darkness upon me on my records. – Tech N9ne
452. As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives. – Adam Hamilton
453. Jews seek to cleave to the will of God as set forth in the Bible and, particularly, the Pentateuch, with its rabbinic commentaries, the Mishnah and Talmud. – Meir Soloveichik
454. There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice. – Thomas Paine
455. If America’s Founding Fathers espoused openness to religion, creationism, and the Bible being taught in schools, then it beckons the question, Why don’t we? – Chuck Norris
456. We call an obsession with having someone’s approval ‘co-dependency;’ the Bible’s word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol. – John Ortberg
457. The story of Hosea and Gomer is the second most powerful picture of God’s love in the Bible. Other than Christ’s death, there is no greater picture of love. – Jud Wilhite
458. 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
459. So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us. – Mary Augusta Ward
460. 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
461. The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history. – Billy Graham
462. Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it’ll be too stuffy. – Walter Kirn
463. 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 M. Christensen
464. The Bible is filled with intriguing stories about complex and flawed human beings who ponder immense moral questions and engage in colossal clashes with evil. – David Harsanyi
465. I know the Bible pretty well. I’m not one of those guys who can immediately start quoting every book, but usually I know where to look to find certain themes. – John Darnielle
466. I definitely believe that tormenting other people because of the Bible and for that to be – for lack of a better word, Gospel… I think that is not very nice. – Tobias Forge
467. The Bible tells me that every life is holy; the Bible tells me that every life is loved; the Bible tells me that every life is called to be all that it can be. – John Shelby Spong
468. I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I’ve read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it’s the same. – Steven Wright
469. The Bible is pregnant with politics. You cannot read the Bible from Genesis through Revelation and go through too many chapters that are not involving politics. – Tony Evans
470. There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn’t. – Anne Graham Lotz
471. Biblical movies need not sermonize, just be honest to the foundational story. As powerful as the message is for people of faith, it’s really great storytelling. – David Harsanyi
472. I’ve just always done what I’ve felt is best, according to what the Bible tells me. That’s why I started protesting, and that’s what I continue to do every day. – Eric Reid
473. 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
474. I don’t think they necessarily do nearly as much haunting as people think. If you believe in the Bible, pretty much part of the deal that goes with it is ghosts. – Mike Leach
475. 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
476. My mom used to always read Bible scriptures to me and constantly say, ‘Charity starts at home.’ I always kept that in my mind and watched how it came to reality. – Jay Rock
477. As delineated in the biblical book of Leviticus, Israel’s atonement was achieved, year after year, through the sacrifices brought on that day by the high priest. – Meir Soloveichik
478. Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one meta-narrative from Genesis to Revelation. – Roma Downey
479. I was raised in a very religious household – it wasn’t dogma, but we were raised Christian; we went to church every Sunday, Bible study, Bible camp every summer. – Adrienne C. Moore
480. I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water. – Bethany Hamilton
481. If people are taught wrong, raised wrong, or haven’t taken the Bible seriously enough, then they can go into academic error, emotional error, psychological error. – Tony Evans
482. You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91. – Ray Lewis
483. Whether you’re a believer or not, a flawed biblical epic is going to be more entertaining than a remake of a Paul Verhoeven movie or some third-rate sci-fi flick. – David Harsanyi
484. When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, ‘How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.’ – Donald Trump
485. 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
486. 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
487. The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn’t mean that you believe everything he says without examining it. – John Piper
488. If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. – Wallace Stevens
489. If all Christians and Jews tithed their income as the Bible commands, every poor person would be cared for, every naked person clothed, and every hungry person fed. – Ann Coulter
490. I was raised in the Catholic Church, and for me, the thought in the Bible and Christianity, and the spirit within that, is one of the guiding principles in my life. – Jon Batiste
491. 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
492. I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong. – Tony Campolo
493. There’s a verse in the Bible says, ‘In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.’ And what brings me peace is the scripture. – Tammy Faye Bakker
494. 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
495. Human beings have kicked around the concept of what individual happiness means for centuries, from the Bible to the ancient Greeks to the 1859 bestseller ‘Self-Help.’ – Mary Pilon
496. Trump, despite his shallow depth of biblical knowledge, plays into both the apocalyptic end-time fears of evangelicals and their nostalgia for a ‘small town’ America. – Anthea Butler
497. 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
498. My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament. – Ziggy Marley
499. The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination. – Shane Claiborne
500. You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine… God ordains the death penalty! – Rafael Cruz
501. My mom is quite religious, and she got the name Tituss from the Bible. It’s one of the smallest books in the Bible. I don’t know why she added an ‘s,’ but she just did. – Tituss Burgess
502. I rarely do any back story. I often get a thick bible of back story, but I can’t use it. The back story is a tool of the writer. But I can only act what’s in the scene. – Ulrich Thomsen
503. The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried. – Joyce Meyer
504. 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
505. The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show. – Casey Kasem
506. Our lives are in God’s hands. We have no control. We can’t control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life. – T. B. Joshua
507. The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigorous secular curriculum alongside traditional Talmud and Bible study. – Noah Feldman
508. 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
509. It is by God’s grace and provision that Hobby Lobby has endured. Therefore, we seek to honor God by operating the company in a manner consistent with biblical principles. – David Green
510. Marriage in the biblical sense is very clearly – from the many, many Christians who wrote to me on this subject, in their opinion – can only be between a man and a woman. – Andrea Leadsom
511. The Bible says that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. I believe that. Because I’ve seen it all work. – Tyler Perry
512. Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it. – John Gresham Machen
513. If you stick to what the Bible teaches, then you have everything you need: honesty, openness, friendliness, respect, tolerance, and much more, which is often lost nowadays. – Niko Kovac
514. If you get into really learning about the roots of monotheism, it was utterly a radical cultural moment. The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it. – Ezra Furman
515. In African-American culture, there’s often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be one role the poet has. – Kevin Young
516. The Bible says not to worry so I don’t. I just get up in the morning and ask God for help to get through the day. If tomorrow shows up then I’ll take the same shot tomorrow. – Paul Henderson
517. When ‘Christians’ cite the Bible as the basis for secular policies, they must explain why they believe Muslims in the Middle East are evil for doing the same with the Koran. – Kurt Eichenwald
518. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is. – Maya Angelou
519. A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine. – Joel Osteen
520. In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn’t instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism. – Elie Wiesel
521. 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
522. In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the Bible are scientifically impossible. – Stephen Kinzer
523. 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
524. I’m not sure I’ll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc… but Jesus. – Tullian Tchividjian
525. 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
526. Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed – it’s a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind’s story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break. – Mick Fleetwood
527. The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment. – Elliott Abrams
528. In the Bible, there is absolutely no motivation for Judas, other than that he is sort of a 100 percent figure of evil. And it seemed to me that that was probably not the case. – Tim Rice
529. My parents were very spiritual folks. I grew up studying the Bible. My dad’s a Christian academy teacher. I grew up with a big spiritual influence. It’s a big part of my life. – Joshua Henry
530. 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
531. Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom. – Jonathan Sacks
532. The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane. – Dennis Prager
533. We don’t see the Bible as it is itself. We see it in relation to a lot of people who surround it. And because we don’t care for some of them, we think we shouldn’t care for it. – Susan Glaspell
534. My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single morning. He made me memorize it and repeat verses at night before I went to sleep. – Jay Parini
535. ‘Lonesome Dove’ by Larry McMurtry and ‘The Poisonwood Bible’ by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says a lot about an author’s writing. – Tess Gerritsen
536. We can’t allow, in my perception, our traditions, which in the Bible are really looked down upon, to stop, literally, the potential of the gospel reaching the youth of America. – Stephen Baldwin
537. Mr. Trump and Mr. Osteen are mirrors of each other. Both enjoy enormous support among evangelicals, yet they lack a command of biblical scripture. Both are among the 1 percent. – Anthea Butler
538. Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference to other parts of the Bible. – John Piper
539. In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed. – Malcolm X
540. There’s a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we’re to watch for, and when these signs all converge at one place we can be sure that we’re close to the end of the age. – Billy Graham
541. I teach a Bible study for homeless guys in downtown Atlanta every week. Been doing it for years. That’s the guys I’d rather go talk to. I’d rather take my act outside the church. – Jeff Foxworthy
542. I do believe that Israel is covenant land. That’s very controversial, but I read the Bible literally, and I believe that God gave them that land, all the way back to Deuteronomy. – James Dobson
543. There’s a Biblical mandate to reach out to those who are the orphans, the widows in their distress, to take care of the stranger in your land. But that does not mean citizenship. – James Lankford
544. My family wanted church to be a place where we all went together. My dad was always traveling, and my mom was always working. School is where I did Bible classes and studied God. – Sofia Richie
545. 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
546. I’m not a religious person in the regular sense, but in the Bible you’re not allowed to steal, you’re not allowed to lie and you’re not allowed to feel you’re above other people. – Alber Elbaz
547. 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
548. Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God? – E. O. Wilson
549. The biblical method of change begins in the heart of man with the Gospel. It transforms the mind of man and gradually works its way out. And it builds a nation from the bottom up. – Kirk Cameron
550. People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It’s not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different. – Colin Firth
551. I do read newspapers constantly and my ‘Jesus Calling’ devotional on my way to work each day. In addition, my Bible is on my bedside table and my ‘go to’ for advice and direction. – Ainsley Earhardt
552. I play dominoes all the way until I got Bible study. And then I do Bible study. I go to the game. After the game, come home. Dinner. Dominoes until I go to sleep. I’m. Not. Joking. – Jimmy Butler
553. 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 M. Christensen
554. The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church. – John Shelby Spong
555. 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
556. As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study ‘Breaking Free’, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits. – Beth Moore
557. It’s not so easy to apply to today’s society things that were written thousands of years ago. But that’s exactly the job of a minister – to make the teaching of the Bible relevant. – Kaka
558. The Bible has been trapped in modernity. Everything has to work perfectly. And if everything doesn’t fit in a Lego-oriented functionality, then we don’t deal with it as Christians. – Erwin McManus
559. Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the end of the year I go and pull the paper out and check this off and check that off. – NeNe Leakes
560. At the bottom of a Peretti novel is the biblical view of things, the Christian message. Whether you’re a Christian or not, you’re still going to have to deal with good versus evil. – Frank Peretti
561. My mother’s a very spiritual woman, and I think Pentecostal religion, Bible religion, was very important to her because it gave her a context for a very spiritual approach to life. – Rodney Crowell
562. Words have power. Words created this universe… Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, ‘In the beginning was the word.’ In the same way, your words have creative power. – Bo Sanchez
563. I read Christopher McDougall’s book ‘Born to Run.’ If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race. – Jennifer Carpenter
564. There are other people in ‘Dreamgirls’ who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study class once a week. It was started by Charles Bernard and myself. We meet at the theater. – Ben Harney
565. 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. – Desmond Tutu
566. In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion. – Carol P. Christ
567. 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
568. ‘The Fades’ is its own world. If you try and link it to some religion, you have people going, ‘Oh, that’s not right,’ with their Bible open. Let’s just chuck some imagination at it. – Daniel Kaluuya
569. 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
570. Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we, know how to honor and properly use the second Bible, when it was written. – Richard Rohr
571. I’ve been told there’s a special golden shelf, in the secret vault kept at the back of every bookstore in America, that contains the Bible, ‘War and Peace,’ and ‘Driving Mr. Albert.’ – Michael Paterniti
572. James Bond was an early favourite, although I didn’t understand much of it. I read the Bible a lot, too. You might say that this was my favourite, since I seemed to read it so often. – Philip Kerr
573. When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It’s still the pull of my childhood, a fascination with the vanished world, and I can find everything except that world. – Elie Wiesel
574. The Bible is not only laws, it’s also stories. It begins, ‘In the beginning God created Heaven.’ If I had written these words, I wouldn’t have written anything else; it’s just enough. – Elie Wiesel
575. It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music. – Eric Clapton
576. Most Evangelicals have the church to thank for the Sunday-school classes that taught us what the Bible says and paved the way for our eventual decisions to commit our lives to Christ. – Tony Campolo
577. 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
578. 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
579. It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words of Christ to fallacies of human production. – Ellen G. White
580. 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
581. We need to pray and read the Bible every day, and regardless of whatever else happens to you, that tends to keep you close to Him, because you are constantly in touch through His Word. – Cliff Richard
582. Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it. – Louis Agassiz
583. It’s OK to burn a Bible, that’s OK. OK to burn a flag, OK, that’s all right. But just, you know, for heaven’s sake, don’t say anything that might offend someone of the Islamic religion. – Louie Gohmert
584. I think there’s nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith – any religion. – Elizabeth Vargas
585. The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. – Brendan Behan
586. Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. – Helen Keller
587. The Biblical world view sees Earth and its ecosystems as the effect of a wise God’s creation and… therefore robust, resilient, and self-regulating, like the product of any good engineer. – Christopher Monckton
588. A lot of the evangelicals supporting Donald Trump aren’t expecting that he’s going to start holding Bible studies in the Oval Office. They just want somebody who’s going to solve problems. – Robert Jeffress
589. Our country, though it is not a theocracy, you will not understand democracy if you don’t understand the biblical foundations and traditions and foundation of Christianity and of our faith. – Paula White
590. 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
591. 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
592. Among all the characters mentioned in the Bible, none is more mysterious than Melchisedec; said to be without father, mother, or earthly kin, and holding the dual office of king and priest. – Max Heindel
593. We live in the Bible Belt. I was born and raised in church. That’s something that was really, really important to me, to build that foundation with our kids so they at least went to church. – Jay DeMarcus
594. I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible. – Tony Campolo
595. My efforts have been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting, but at the same time give the human touch which makes the whole world kin and which ever remains the same. – Henry Ossawa Tanner
596. It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South. – Isabel Wilkerson
597. I didn’t write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies. – N. T. Wright
598. Oh, there’s going to be debate because you’re dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue. – Pam Grier
599. The real Stephen Colbert is a practicing Catholic. He teaches Sunday school. He can recite chapter and verse of chapter and verse – from both the King James Bible and ‘The Lord of the Rings.’ – Kevin Bleyer
600. The Christian – the biblical – concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve. – John Piper
601. Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents. – Josh McDowell
602. The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure. – John Locke
603. Republican politicians often evoke the Bible when it suits their purposes. But they disregard some of its most important teachings when formulating policy. This includes the story of Noah’s Ark. – Tom Steyer
604. I thought that God and rap would never work. I thought that God wasn’t okay with rap. People knew I used to rap, and I went to the Bible studies. Someone said, ‘Hey, you should rap about Jesus.’ – Lecrae
605. As they say in the bible, that you’re supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they’re born, because it’s one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying. – Gregg Allman
606. I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer’s handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy. – Adam Hamilton
607. In the Bible, we have the facts and history of man’s redemption. Incidentally or essentially, other worlds and other beings are brought prominently on the stage of redemption purposes and plans. – Edward McKendree Bounds
608. 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 Williams
609. There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel. – Tullian Tchividjian
610. I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We’re seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level. – Bill Paxton
611. When I was little, I looked in the mirror and held the Bible in my hand – that’s how I talked to God. I never just asked for stuff. The way I saw it, if you give Him something, you get something. – Gilbert Arenas
612. Do I think human beings are meant to be in 40-year-long monogamous, faithful, relationships? No, No, No. Whoever said they were? Only the Bible or something. No one ever said that was a good idea. – Hugh Grant
613. Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable. – Jerry B. Jenkins
614. I respect the Bible and offer namaz regularly. But I am ritualistic only up to a certain extent. I believe only in those rituals that I can understand and connect with, and conduct them my own way. – Emraan Hashmi
615. Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change. – Tony Campolo
616. I didn’t really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every day. I enjoy reading now, and there is a whole world of books out there to explore. – Roger McGuinn
617. I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‘Lord, remember me.’ – Billy Graham
618. You can’t blame things for being dark if the light bulbs aren’t working. So we’re complaining about the darkness when the bulbs aren’t working, and the Bible says that we are the light of the world. – Tony Evans
619. The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked. – Keith Miller
620. 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
621. My parents… has always wanted all their kids to go to at least one year of Bible college after high school. I always knew that I was on my way to Moody Bible Institute when I graduated high school. – David A. R. White
622. I came to trust in Jesus as my Savior after a two-year personal study of the Bible that convinced me that Scripture is free of contradiction and error – doctrinally, historically, and scientifically. – Hugh Ross
623. Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we’re going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he’s read and written. – Jerry B. Jenkins
624. God doesn’t make things difficult for us. Do you want to know what the truth is? Look in the Bible, and you’ll see that Jesus describes Himself not only as the truth, but the way and the life as well. – Monica Johnson
625. In the case of ‘The Bible’ series and now ‘Son of God,’ it has been a combination of what I love to do and what I believe. To be able to do that with the person I love has just really been a blessing. – Roma Downey
626. Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read – other than the Bible, which they all say they read – and the kind of people with whom they spend their time. – Jack Germond
627. I believe the fast track to atheism is reading the Bible. I’ve read it three times all the way through. It’s a big part of our culture, a big part of our history. I don’t just read things I agree with. – Penn Jillette
628. The ultimate meaning of the Bible escapes human limits and calls us to a recognition that every life is holy, every life is loved, and every life is called to be all that that life is capable of being. – John Shelby Spong
629. 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
630. I’m a spiritual person: I believe that if you read the Bible, you get what you want from it. But, when you actually read it, you see the beauty, spirituality, the joy and love, and what makes us godly. – Carlos Mencia
631. Around A.D. 930, the sages in Tiberias assembled all 24 holy books and completed the writing of the codex, the first definitive Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible. From Tiberias, the codex was taken to Jerusalem. – Ronen Bergman
632. People who didn’t live pre-Internet can’t grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark. – Mary Karr
633. Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We’ve trivialized marriage, and we’ve neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us. – David Jeremiah
634. If we are recognizing the Bible as a sacred text, then we are violating the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Tennessee by designating it as the official state book. – Bill Haslam
635. I have a Bible study that my friends and I go to here in L.A. I go to church every Sunday. I’ve always been a believer. I love singing. I don’t have the best voice – I just love getting my emotions out. – Kellan Lutz
636. Because most journalists are secular, they can be gullible in looking to the religious right as arbiters of biblical interpretation, especially as it relates to hot-button cultural and political issues. – Kirsten Powers
637. The Bible does not isolate war, as if it were something separate and unique and quite apart, as we tend to do in our thinking. It is but one of the manifestations of sin, one of the consequences of sin. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones
638. The Bible says to ‘fear not,’ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid. – Joyce Meyer
639. Where do I begin with ‘The Godfather?’ It’s like explaining why the ‘Bible’ is so popular. I’ll always remember seeing the first one because it was the only time I went to the movies with my grandfather. – Steven Van Zandt
640. You can’t tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God… So I think the distinction is that there’s a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher. – Charles Stanley
641. I have a little pocket Bible that I have with me all the time in my briefcase, and so usually in the mornings, sometimes on the campaign bus or plane, I always try to catch some time to do that regularly. – Mike Huckabee
642. The biblical world view with respect to these issues is that we have a responsibility to manage and cultivate, harvest the natural resources that we’ve been blessed with to truly bless our fellow mankind. – Scott Pruitt
643. The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. – Richard Dawkins
644. Christians are increasingly being punished for the free exercise of their faith and for standing on God’s Word and holding to biblical convictions about sin. This is especially apparent with the gay lobby. – Ken Ham
645. My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting… but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me. – Henry Ossawa Tanner
646. Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust? – Garrett Hardin
647. The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it’s a sort of biblical thing. It’s something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience. – Pamela Stephenson
648. Anti-Christian ideology has permeated much of the secular news media, and so often Biblical Christians are mocked, misrepresented or attacked for what they believe by anti-Christian agenda driven reporters. – Ken Ham
649. The Bible makes it clear that Adam’s sin affected the whole universe. This means that any aliens would also be affected by Adam’s sin, but because they are not Adam’s descendants, they can’t have salvation. – Ken Ham
650. The Hebrew Bible has long been the world’s possession, and those who come to it by any means, through whatever language, are equals in ownership, and may not be denied the intimacy of their spiritual claim. – Cynthia Ozick
651. I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents’ religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it. – Ken Follett
652. The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt – people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore. – Ian Mckellen
653. It’s very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn’t developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But undoubtedly, Jewish ancestors were polytheists. – Robert Winston
654. I would point out that if you’re a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn’t because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy. – Joe Barton
655. 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
656. Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don’t be intimidated. Read your Bible. That’s really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God’s name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever. – Margaret Keane
657. And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and upset in the soldiers, they take Bibles and they trash them. – Jane Mayer
658. My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story. – Max Lucado
659. Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible – that is just cheating. It’s cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn’t how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that. – Andy Stanley
660. Within the Christian tradition, fundamentalism arose in the 19th century as an effort to push back against modern’ readings of the Bible that suggested everything in the text wasn’t true in some literal sense. – Jay Parini
661. The Bible, that powerful book, has many effects: it comforts, counsels, instructs, and brings us into the presence of God. But trying to erase offense as one of its functions is a fundamentally misguided task. – Frederica Mathewes-Green
662. 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
663. Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or ‘Old Testament,’ and the traditions of interpretation of that teaching. – David Novak
664. I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim. – Reza Aslan
665. The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I’ve read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language. – Bryce Courtenay
666. The church as a whole has strayed quite far from biblical evangelism; that is, sharing the Gospel in the way that Jesus did, the way the Apostle Paul did, and the rest of the disciples and prophets in Scripture. – Kirk Cameron
667. But I like going to church. If you’ve been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it’s important that part of the kids’ education is knowing about the Bible. – Jack Dee
668. A lot of these liberal churches that harbor illegal immigrants who are criminals say they are following the example of Jesus. They are following the Jesus of their imagination rather than the Jesus of the Bible. – Robert Jeffress
669. I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine. There are lots and lots of people who are free-thinking, secularists, or atheists in the so-called Bible Belt. – Richard Dawkins
670. Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass. – Edward P. Jones
671. To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast. You go over the initial script with them and listen to the way they talk. Then you try to do a rewrite to accommodate them. – Dito Montiel
672. There’s a verse in the Bible: ‘Those who are barren have more children than those who give birth.’ There are young people all over the world who come to me for advice and love. I have all the children I can handle. – Ginger Rogers
673. The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book. – John McGahern
674. 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
675. I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama. – Kevin Gates
676. To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible’s radically disproportionate focus on God’s saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ. – Tullian Tchividjian
677. The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can’t the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures? – Bruce Feiler
678. My wife and I – her more than me – are really strong Christians. Her whole life revolves around studying the Bible, Bible study, after-school Bible class she does for little kids on Wednesdays, teaches Sunday school. – Ben Howland
679. I really feel like my story in modern day times is very similar to a biblical story: you know, somebody that nobody expected, that everybody said couldn’t, and by God’s grace and power, I was able to accomplish a lot. – Kurt Warner
680. Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone’s Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did. – Michael Ignatieff
681. 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
682. Hollywood has done some of these films, and some of them are ginormous biblical movies, but you can tell the people making these are not invested in the truth of what those stories are biblically. It shows in the work. – David Oyelowo
683. When I was seven or eight, I was bought a fantastic book called ‘The Movie Treasury of Horror Movies’ by Alan G. Frank; it became my bible. It’s packed full of the most amazing photos and is still fantastic to look at. – Mark Gatiss
684. Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past. – Dara Horn
685. I feel that, every day, God molds me into someone that He wants me to be. So if that means just, like, talking to teammates and helping them out, or, like, every so often I’ll post a Bible verse on Twitter or Instagram. – Laurie Hernandez
686. For most people, the question why be good – as distinguished from merely law abiding – is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell. – Alan Dershowitz
687. Jesus Christ will be the leader of an intergalactic earth evacuation. We’re getting some earth leaders up there to check the mother ship. The Bible says that the sky will be glorious and Christ will come back to us all. – Nina Hagen
688. Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves – or to something higher than their current level of attainment. – Leland Ryken
689. Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament. – Henry B. Eyring
690. As the Bible inculcates upon man but one duty in respect to sin, and that is immediate repentance, abolitionists believe that all who hold slaves, or who approve the practice in others, should immediately cease to do so. – Elijah Parish Lovejoy
691. ‘Walking the Bible’ describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. – Bruce Feiler
692. When I grew up, my house contained only two books: the Bible and the ‘Edmonds’ cookbook. We were a working-class household. Books were a poor second to the television, which was always on, usually with me in front of it. – Anthony McCarten
693. I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. ‘Taxi Driver’ is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it’s contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg. – Sam Rockwell
694. Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal – ‘I’m not letting go until I get what I want’ – it’s a problem. – Joni Eareckson Tada
695. Quite frankly, I would prefer to have a non-Christian like Mitt Romney who at least pretends to embrace biblical principles over a professing Christian like Barack Obama who embraces very unbiblical positions on abortion. – Robert Jeffress
696. 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
697. When you start writing songs on your own, there’s no Bible, there’s no one around you, so you’re just writing, and you’re left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it’s a good song or an interesting concept. – Jack Antonoff
698. The risk of pollution exists for the infosphere as it does for the atmosphere. Freedom of the infosphere should thus become a law, and the Bible needs to have an 11th commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s data. – Hubert Burda
699. There are Arthurian legends in 14 or 15 medieval European languages. They are the product of no one time or place. On the contrary, in sum they represent a tremendous mine of human understanding, rather as the Bible does. – Kevin Crossley-Holland
700. What I believe about the young age of the earth comes out of taking the Bible as written. And I’ve said numerous times over the years that the age of the earth, for example, is not a salvation issue but an authority issue. – Ken Ham
701. While the Bible’s account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation. Likewise, our future full-size evangelistic Noah’s Ark will honor the Bible as God’s word and not treat it as a pagan fable. – Ken Ham
702. The Elephantine papyri – written as some of the books of the Bible are being written – is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things. – Simon Schama
703. Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith. – Maria Monk
704. With so many contradictory renditions of the biblical text, the public has lost confidence that we can actually know what the Bible says. It is an easy step from this skepticism to an indifference about what the Bible says. – Leland Ryken
705. I study the Bible constantly. I teach the Bible. You know, I’m a Bible conductor, and I have a lot of people studies. But also, I see how small things really help people to get over humps in their life. Gives them direction. – George Benson
706. A girl invited me to come out to a Bible study, and I said, ‘Why not? I don’t have anything to lose.’ I went, and to my surprise, I saw people that loved God, but they were not square or rigid. They were just people like me. – Lecrae
707. We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We’ve always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study… I just really had a chance to look and learn. – D’Brickashaw Ferguson
708. The practice of shaving makes its first appearance in the Bible in connection with the story of Joseph, who as a young man was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt, where he was subsequently imprisoned on false charges. – Meir Soloveichik
709. I valued the biblical foundation I got at Biola. I was able to take classes that strengthened my faith and helped me to better understand what I believe and how to, in a practical way, apply my faith in real-world situations. – John Thune
710. What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to know the Bible but it is just hard to understand the big picture of it. And number two, they want to know where they plug in. – Max Lucado
711. A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare – let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. – Chaim Potok
712. I feel angry with myself the way I handled the Bible and Christianity. A lot more people are more normal with Christianity. I was crazy… telling people you will go to hell. I lost all my friends because of my militant faith. – Michaela Coel
713. 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
714. Southern Republicans are guided by the Bible. Western Republicans read the Constitution. Seen in historical terms, it’s the difference between a movement descended from George Wallace and one that harks back to Barry Goldwater. – Jacob Weisberg
715. Jesus was not this wimpy little guy who walked around munching sunflower seeds and saying nice things to people. The real Jesus of the Bible said, ‘Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s.’ That is: Obey the government. – Robert Jeffress
716. I believe there are some great things that I’ve taken from the Bible in terms of loving the world and trying to be kind. There are a lot of good things to take from the Bible, and I like to think I try to apply them to my life. – Michaela Coel
717. There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others. – Joel Osteen
718. I want every Israeli child, secular and religious, to know about Moses, about Maimonides, about Yoni Netanyahu, about Hannah Senesh and S. Y. Agnon. I want every child to know how to read the Bible, and know how to make Kiddush. – Naftali Bennett
719. When I see someone interesting on the subway – the lady with her new Bible or the delivery guy holding down a dozen Mylar balloons – my mind goes in two different directions. Where are they coming from? And where are they going? – David Ebershoff
720. Not only did we read a lot at home, we also watched a lot of films. So I had already seen a lot of films that were about the crucifixion and the temptation of Christ, like Bible history and the Ten Commandments – stuff like that. – Tobias Forge
721. You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It’s kind of like religion – once you’ve written the Bible, that’s it, move on. – John Lydon
722. It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to know God through the pages of my Bible. And as a result, I started a Bible class in my city for the primary purpose of being in it. – Anne Graham Lotz
723. Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of ‘Noah.’ We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original. – Dennis Prager
724. In one sense, I wanted to study philosophy and theology, getting into the history of the Bible. I went through that for, like, two years while I took a desk job at Warners. It was very depressing but exhilarating at the same time. – KRS-One
725. Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage. – Stockwell Day
726. The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible. – Joseph Franklin Rutherford
727. There’s nothing sacred about the book you’ve written. The Bible says there’s safety in a multitude of counselors. The movie is the movie, and the book is the book. They’re different critters, and each must stand on their own merits. – Frank Peretti
728. I was a Green Day guy because the first DVD I bought was Green Day’s ‘Bullet In A Bible,’ the live album. That really empowered me to be not just a drummer but a performer. It’s a really crucial part of why I wanted to be in a band. – Ashton Irwin
729. The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation. – Joyce Meyer
730. America was never officially a Christian nation, since neither Jesus Christ nor the Bible are mentioned in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. But there’s no denying the influence Christianity has had on our country. – Tony Evans
731. If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order. – Pat Robertson
732. Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that’s just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it’s like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly. – Troy Polamalu
733. I do believe in the Bible as the final word of God. And I do believe that God said the Earth would not be destroyed by a flood. Now, do I believe in climate change? In my trip to Greenland, the answer is yes. The climate is changing. – John Shimkus
734. Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of the crucifixion found in Mark’s gospel and discover that it is not based on eyewitness testimony at all. – John Shelby Spong
735. We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me. – Kendrick Lamar
736. A name is so important in biblical settings that Scripture frequently mentions God Himself changing someone’s name to reflect a new reality. Abram, which means ‘exalted father,’ was changed to Abraham, meaning ‘father of a multitude.’ – Tony Evans
737. Growing up in the Bible Belt of Texas, I thought for sure there was no way – if I’m 100 percent true to myself and come out as a gay, African-American person in 2015 – that people are going to be able to accept that and understand it. – Todrick Hall
738. I’m a classic Church of England member, but part of its strength is the fact that it doesn’t ask us to sign up to too much of a canon… but I’ve always found the teachings of Jesus and the Bible quite useful as a sort of handy guide. – David Cameron
739. 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
740. When I looked very closely to the Bible and to Jesus, this Christ who came, I discovered something awesome. I discovered that when He’s first, then He places me in a second position that’s above the class that I was given by other men. – Tony Evans
741. I’m in the early stages of a film called ‘Freezing Time’ about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man. – Andy Serkis
742. My parents named me after Uriah the Hittite, one of King David’s mighty men in the Old Testament of the Bible, who was known for his fearlessness. I’ve thought about it, and there may be a connection between my name and my personality. – Urijah Faber
743. The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling. – Jonathan Sacks
744. 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
745. It stayed with me – the Bible has stayed with me. I’ve grown out of it because, obviously, you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life. – Benjamin Clementine
746. I was in a Bible study, Henry Blackaby’s ‘Experiencing God,’ and I started to experience God as I was reading the pages of this workbook and studying scripture with some friends, and we all just searching to fill that void in our lives. – Ainsley Earhardt
747. 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
748. The voters of each Congressional district select the representative that they choose to represent them, and perhaps voters in all districts will now ask prospective candidates whether they will use the Bible, the Koran, or anything else. – Virgil Goode
749. The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha’s atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah. – Walter Kaufmann
750. The state of Michigan going to Trump was an amazing thing. Of course the fake news media was shocked; they never considered that white working class residents of Michigan may not like being called evil racists clinging to guns and Bibles. – Milo Yiannopoulos
751. The more readers use the Bible app, the more valuable it becomes to them. Switching to a different digital Bible – God forbid – becomes less likely with each new revelation a user types into the app, further securing YouVersion’s dominion. – Nir Eyal
752. When I was writing about the Republican primaries, it was as though the Bible was a black box that people reached into to pull out edicts and prejudices and rules and opinions, and I wish they had fact-checked it! Especially Rick Santorum. – Walter Kirn
753. 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
754. My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my son walk into kindergarten at a school in which he was the only Jewish child out of 600 students – and this in the middle of the Bible Belt. – Karen Bender
755. My grandmother was a very simple woman. She didn’t want a whole lot. My grandmother wanted to go to church and Sunday school every Sunday. She wanted to be in Bible study every Wednesday. The other days, she wanted to be on a fishing creek. – Shannon Sharpe
756. In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were living in Bible Belt farming country miles from civilization. Buckley seemed impossibly exotic. – Malcolm Gladwell
757. The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions – dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war. – Elaine Pagels
758. We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter. – John D. Rockefeller
759. Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again. – Terry Pratchett
760. 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
761. Religion is a huge part of our consciousness. I grew up in the Bible Belt, so it’s our mythology. Those are the stories we learn as little kids at Sunday school. I’m not afraid to use the metaphors, because I think the stories are beautiful. – Samuel Ervin Beam
762. The decision to allow clergy to perform same-sex marriages at the discretion of the congregation poses challenges for seminaries training new pastors who come from denominations fundamentally opposed on biblical grounds to same-sex marriage. – Anthea Butler
763. 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
764. There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible. – Leland Ryken
765. One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence – he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers. – Jon Meacham
766. One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life. – Donald Miller
767. After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life. – T. B. Joshua
768. 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
769. I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way, and it surely is approved holy by the Holy Bible, and it holds so many more possibilities: the possibilities of having children of both the mother and father, the male and the female. – Robert H. Schuller
770. I was raised in a Jewish family, but since I was adopted, my parents sent me to Hebrew school and Bible chapel, so I got the best of both worlds – singing in both a choir in Bible chapel and a chorus in Hebrew school. It shaped me and my voice. – Michelle Visage
771. Seeing ‘The Gospel According to St. Matthew’ was an extraordinary experience because it made me realise that all the biblical stories and images I’d ignored as a child had sunk in by osmosis. I saw that my childhood was deeply rooted inside me. – Derek Cianfrance
772. Once or twice, I’ve taken the Gideon Bible out of the drawer, opened it at random, and found myself stuck in the middle of a genealogical list. And that’s when I thought: why not cherry-pick the best bits, passages that people can actually use? – Stephen Hough
773. Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. – John Wooden
774. 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
775. The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you’d have an uprising. – Gail Collins
776. Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we’d call the millennium. – Pat Robertson
777. Jews have not only become equal citizens in Western democracies, they have become leading citizens. And, of course, the reestablishment of the State of Israel has given Jews a political presence in the world they have not had since biblical times. – David Novak
778. I am a youth minister, ordained by the Riverside Church in upper New York. But to declare myself a minister and begin to preach from the pulpit, from the Bible, to a congregation and to build a church, so to speak – I don’t have a desire for that. – KRS-One
779. It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written. – Joseph Franklin Rutherford
780. Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them. – John Shelby Spong
781. 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
782. Fundamentalist Christians, adhering to what is termed ‘creation science,’ loudly promote the scientific accuracy of the Bible, but they sift or reinterpret science through the tiny mesh of their ideological filter. Not much real science gets through. – Hugh Ross
783. As a film enthusiast and a lover of stories, I have read biblical stories and I’ve seen biblical films with the same zeal as I have read and seen my own country’s stories. Most of the time, the creator doesn’t know where he gets his inspiration from. – S. S. Rajamouli
784. My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything about the Bible. And then they had to come to Brussels, to run away from Poland, because there was too much anti-Semitism. They lost everything they had. – Chantal Akerman
785. 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
786. The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn’t been until quite recently that it’s been taken as the absolute truth, to the point where people expect it to inform ideas about biology and life on this planet. – Walter Kirn
787. 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
788. Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless – until they aren’t. – Amy Waldman
789. It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God created the entire universe just so he could create this galaxy just so he could create Earth so he could create human beings so he could create a family. – Rick Warren
790. So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present. – Tony Campolo
791. When you talk about evangelicals, don’t forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans – well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical – will probably vote Democratic. – Tony Campolo
792. There are some heterosexuals that have heterosexual behavior that is appalling sexually, that is deviant and bad and not really moral and Christ-like and biblical. But those people are never questioned as to whether or not they’re allowed to be a parent. – Rosie O’Donnell
793. When I visited Israel for the first time, in 2014, on a trip sponsored by the National Religious Broadcasters, I went to the Museum of The Bible with our group. There, we saw the most ancient and original versions of both the Hebrew and Christian bibles. – Katie Pavlich
794. Sometimes you are the only living, walking, breathing version of the Bible that people will ever see. What long-lasting taste are you going to leave in their mouths? A lot of people have left a bad taste. And it’s so unfortunate, because God is the best! – Yvonne Orji
795. This is a gift. This is a gift from God. It’s really like the old Biblical passage that talks about your body being a temple. That’s not to say that I’ve never done anything but I’ve never abused myself. Never gone over the top for a long period of time. – Teena Marie
796. When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it. – T. B. Joshua
797. I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history. – Jordan Peterson
798. The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. – Patti Smith
799. I spend my life studying that book, and every book I’ve written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that’s what I mean by reclaiming its value and its essence for a world that no longer treats it literally and no longer reads it traditionally. – John Shelby Spong
800. 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
801. When you teach, you need to give the students incentives by grades or by other factors. I went to the Bible to find that topic in Scripture. I was shocked that after college and graduate school I had no idea that Jesus Christ had talked so much about rewards. – Bruce Wilkinson
802. In my final year of attending a Christian sports camp in rural Missouri, the year before I started high school, they began to offer an elective Bible study group for young Christians who wanted a chance to read in the afternoons instead of learn to water-ski. – Daniel Mallory Ortberg
803. I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‘Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.’ – Jimmy Carter
804. We are not saying that if you believe in evolution that you can’t be a Christian, not at all. Because the Bible says that by grace you are saved. You don’t save yourself. It is by confessing the Lord Jesus and that he was rose from the dead that you are saved. – Ken Ham
805. ‘Noah’ is an insult to Bible-believing Christians, an insult to the character of Noah and, most of all, an insult to the God of the Bible. As a result, I believe Hollywood will have a much harder time in marketing future biblically-themed movies to Christians. – Ken Ham
806. I don’t know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that ‘the love of money is the root of all evil,’ and I do think there’s a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values. – Norbert Leo Butz
807. The Bible that I will take my oath on reminds me of the 100th anniversary of the end of the war to end all wars. It was a Bible taken into battle by my wife’s grandfather who had probably never ventured beyond three or four counties in North and South Carolina. – Robert Wilkie
808. We read a lot from the Satanic bible. It’s not quite the opposite of the normal bible – a lot of its principles are just about being yourself, if you want to do something you do it, if you wanna have affairs you can. But we never hold daily rituals or anything. – Jeff Hanneman
809. To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction. – Charles Taze Russell
810. The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt. – Jonathan Sacks
811. I told Miss Kay we need to make sure our children don’t turn out like I turned out, so they were raised up around biblical instruction. That mixed with discipline – the discipline code, I call it. They just had a lifestyle of seeing their parents do good things. – Phil Robertson
812. If the Bible is correct, and the Earth is only 6,000 years old, that means there were no dinosaurs, and museum curators have been messing with us. Or the dinosaurs were here, and we never noticed them. Or a lot of people saw them but didn’t want to say anything. – Ron Shock
813. I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. – Jack Dee
814. There is a biblical injunction to tell your children, but the sages who created the Seder several thousand years ago understood that it had to be more than just speaking: that in order for something to connect so emotionally in human beings, it had to be relived. – Gil Marks
815. We do the weigh-in, then go for a walk, then have breakfast, then I listen to worship songs on my iPod because I’m a Christian. I always read the same Bible verses, too. We do the same warm-up a lot of the time as well. But, I have no superstitions before a fight. – Katie Taylor
816. I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the ‘CBS Evening News’ for 19 years – well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever. – Walter Cronkite
817. The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor. – Jonathan Sacks
818. 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
819. The most enduring Top 10 ever written wasn’t written at all, but chiseled onto stone tablets and conveyed down Mount Sinai by Moses, who introduced to the world not just a set of Biblical precepts but also a new format for starting arguments: the list of 10 things. – Steve Rushin
820. I believe that we should, on biblical grounds, tell all parents of mentally disabled children that God loves their children, regrets terribly that they are disabled, and will, when they die, carry them gently into a heavenly life where every person is forever whole. – Lewis B. Smedes
821. When the Bible and the Gospels say that the victims should have been spared, they do not merely ‘take pity’ on them. They puncture the illusion of the unanimous victimization that foundational myths use as a crisis-solving and reordering device of human communities. – Rene Girard
822. As a Christian, Israel has a very special place in my heart. There’s no question about that. I grew up with a Bible, and the back of the Bible has all these pictures of Israel in it. And so all these locations are incredibly significant to me personally in my faith. – James Lankford
823. ‘Noah’ is about a man whose mission is to obliterate Earth’s past and godfather its future. Replacing the word ‘God’ with ‘Creator’ and taking other scriptural liberties, the movie risks confusing those who don’t take the Bible literally and alienating those who do. – Richard Corliss
824. The newly released movie ‘Noah’ features a retelling of the creation story that clearly depicts Darwinian evolution transforming a single-cell organism into a monkey. The movie also seems to show magic in scenes more reminiscent of the occult than of the Bible story. – Aaron Klein
825. To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible. – John Quincy Adams
826. I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. What if the well-filled church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures, Moses, and the prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers. – Jim Elliot
827. You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you’ve got to kick your players in the rear end. You’ve got to cuss them out. You’ve got to hit them across the head. No. You don’t have to do that. – Bobby Bowden
828. In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat chicken, we have to kill to eat. But at the same time, hunting is a sport. I think it is a great sport… I would say most hunters are Christian men. – Luke Scott
829. Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, ‘Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.’ – Robert H. Schuller
830. I’m 0 for 3 with marriage – the scoreboard doesn’t lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers. – Charlie Sheen
831. 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
832. I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on ‘Jeopardy!’ and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category. – B. D. Wong
833. Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion. – Maimonides
834. People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that people go to see. I think it’s that simple. I promise you if people were lining up around the block to see a Bible movie, they’d make Bible movies from now to the end of time. – Alan Arkin
835. 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
836. I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today. – Billy Graham
837. The drive was brief and the conversation limited, but oh, what a legacy of love! Father never read to me from the Bible about the good Samaritan. Rather, he took me with him and Uncle Elias in that old 1928 Oldsmobile and provided a living lesson I have always remembered. – Thomas S. Monson
838. You are free to reject God. Make sure that you’re really rejecting God, not some caricature of God that the church has shown you. But I, one, respect a God who not only allows us to reject Him but includes the arguments we can use against Him in the Bible. I respect that. – Philip Yancey
839. We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers. – Meir Soloveichik
840. Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so – look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading. – Claire Tomalin
841. I was an altar boy and heard the Bible being read out repeatedly. The stories have stayed with me, although they’re completely remixed in my head. And often, when I do further reading, I’m quite surprised by the difference between the real story and my memory of the story. – Chris Ofili
842. Cain slew Abel. On that much the Torah and the Bible and the Qur’an agree, although in the Qur’an these first sons of Adam and Eve are Qabeel and Habeel. Cain, which is to say Qabeel, wandered eastwards from Eden to the Land of Nod with a mark of some kind on him, a curse. – Terry Glavin
843. The Left masks its distaste for the Bible’s condemnation of homosexuality in a straw man argument that Bible believers are violent bigots. They are not. Citing the Bible doesn’t make you a bigot against human beings – it makes you a bigot against sin, which is a good thing. – Ben Shapiro
844. I’ve spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I’m strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus’ teachings are so radical; they’re just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don’t like the living Jesus. – Barbara Ehrenreich
845. I read the Bible when I was 12 while studying for my bar mitzvah. I was also reading a lot of Dilbert comics at the time, and I guess the two kind of got fused in my mind. I’ve always imagined God as an irrational, distractible boss. It’s my best explanation for our planet. – Simon Rich
846. I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge – and many people go to Bible studies and don’t realize it isn’t enough to know what’s right, it’s applying the information and the knowledge that you have. – Charles Stanley
847. I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it’s in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It’s about oneness. – Hugh Jackman
848. Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them. – L. Lionel Kendrick
849. The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it’s now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power. – Simon Schama
850. What’s frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don’t take chances. A big-budget movie, that script’s your bible; nobody’s going to risk going off the page. But when you’re doing a very low-budget film, why not take some chances, intellectually, artistically? – Lance Henriksen
851. If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth. – Ellen G. White
852. Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That’s because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it. – Ben Shapiro
853. You work on a play or movie, you have the whole script, so you’re constructing a performance based on the bible that you have. In TV, you don’t, so to actually invest in that and let that be the exciting part is terrifying and certainly leaves room for mistakes, looking back. – Cory Michael Smith
854. 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
855. The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord’s promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards. – Charles Stanley
856. For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That’s the best revenge a girl-loving girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it’s healthy. – Beth Ditto
857. I love it when the left and when the president say, ‘Don’t try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.’ They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self. – Rick Santorum
858. The Museum of the Bible, the sprawling, 430,000-square-foot tribute to the good book, has been dogged by controversies long before opening day. It’s been criticized for not including enough Jesus, for excluding various religious traditions, and for being evangelical propaganda. – Elizabeth Flock
859. To insist that belief in the Bible demands belief in a young Earth is to put a stumbling block in the path of many nonbelievers. It raises the question of why a God who is committed to revealing truth would make the universe and Earth measure to be old if, in fact, they are not. – Hugh Ross
860. My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse’s ‘The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,’ which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka. – Rashid Johnson
861. I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful. – Billy Graham
862. I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere. – Joyce Meyer
863. I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife. – Harvey Fierstein
864. Digging into the creation of the Puritan mind-set involved really trying to wrap my head around extreme Calvinism and what that’s all about. I now understand predestination, and I had to read the Geneva Bible cover-to-cover and read the gospels quite a bit to get into that world. – Robert Eggers
865. Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems – from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics. – Bono
866. When I was young, I read the Bible, and I already knew what it meant to be the good guy – and look what happened to Jesus. So, I already understood that you get ridiculed for telling the truth, and I’ve always been aware of that. But, I’m a guy with confidence, and I’m not afraid. – Damon Dash
867. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know. – Kevin DeYoung
868. The ‘Robben Island Bible’ has arrived at the British Museum. It’s a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare. – Daniel Hannan
869. Based on the Bible, I believe that all the land animals were made on day six, and Adam and Eve were made on day six, and people try to make fun of us for believing that dinosaurs lived with people, but there are a lot of animals living today that evolution says lived with dinosaurs. – Ken Ham
870. At home and in church – which I didn’t go to a lot, I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians – they would ask us, ‘What’s the shortest verse in the Bible?’ and I was the one who always said ‘John 11:35′ straightaway. It stayed with me: the Bible has stayed with me. – Benjamin Clementine
871. I did my doctoral dissertation on the lectionary readings that we use at mass and how you have biblical texts that have been taken out of their original Bible context and put together for mass, and now they form a new text. Out of that new text, there is an interplay of new meaning. – Blase J. Cupich
872. I will keep a Bible or Koran on me at all times – the Bible I can actually carry on my phone, and any hotel you go to has a Bible, but the Koran is harder. I keep a physical Koran in my guitar case and put it on the table in hotel rooms so after a day’s work, I can read a few verses. – Rza
873. The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him. – Charles Stanley
874. Once I realized the emptiness of life apart from knowing God, when I embraced God and the truth of the gospel and the truth of the Bible, it was a no-brainer decision to see that that was a treasure that was infinitely more valuable than some sort of an atheistic Hollywood party life. – Kirk Cameron
875. Read something of interest every day – something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible. – Jane Yolen
876. There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible – at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something. – Eugene H. Peterson
877. It’s not a coincidence that the Bible starts with Genesis. Most people really want to know where we came from and where everything around us came from. I like to strongly push the scientific answer. We have evidence. We no longer have to rely on stories we were told when we were young. – Alan Guth
878. There’s no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur’an, there’s no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there’s no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions. – Neale Donald Walsch
879. Most Americans and other Westerners claim to have read all or part of the Bible. However, when asked to identify even four books of the Bible or four of Jesus’ disciples or four of the Ten Commandments, fewer than half even attempt to respond and fewer than one in ten respond correctly. – Hugh Ross
880. I’m very proud of all my children. They all have Christian families; they read the Bible; they pray; the kids go to Sunday school; they know the Ten Commandments by heart. That’s my greatest honor, and I couldn’t do anything to glorify God that could surpass that. That’s very meaningful. – Robert H. Schuller
881. I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder at the Vicarage.’ I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales. – Val McDermid
882. When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does – from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him. – Anne Graham Lotz
883. It is reasonable to think that the more readers put into the Bible app in the form of small investments, the more it becomes a repository of their history of worship. Like a worn dog-eared book, full of scribbled insights and wisdom, the app becomes a treasured asset not easily discarded. – Nir Eyal
884. I don’t pass myself off as a Bible scholar or a pastor or someone who knows all the biblical facts cover-to-cover. I’m just a guy whose life was changed by it. And that’s about the extent of it. So I’m not easily offended when people struggle about where they’re at with their faith at all. – Shawn Michaels
885. Anyone who grows up reading the Bible for spiritual reasons, you get accustomed to reading things that are too much for you, too profound for you… Having that belief that you should read them anyway gives you a great advantage over people who only read what they think they can understand. – Tara Westover
886. Even if you aren’t a believer, there are incredible stories in the ‘good book’ that I guarantee you will keep you glued to the page. The Bible is no less a part of our cultural heritage than Shakespeare is – and by the way, Shakespeare’s plays are absolutely loaded with Biblical references. – Eric Metaxas
887. Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
888. The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then three days later it would be reborn at the start of its cycle – December 25. – David Icke
889. The thing about working in Hollywood is that, at some point, you really get tired of hearing how godless you are, and how if you and the rest of the heathens in Tinsel town would put more God-centric shows on TV, people wouldn’t be abandoning prime time in favor of their Bible study classes. – John Ridley
890. Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That’s not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it’s a witness to God making it down to the worst people. – Tullian Tchividjian
891. Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago. – Adam Hamilton
892. In any long string of letters, one can find countless anomalies that will seem like convincing proofs of hidden meaning to the mind that wants to believe that the text is somehow special. Numerological tricks, for example, can demonstrate that William Shakespeare wrote the ‘King James Bible.’ – Benjamin Wittes
893. ‘Noah’ doesn’t merely get the story wrong; like all Biblical adaptations, it’s bound to do that (although some aspects of the film are out and out ridiculous). It gets the morality of the story wrong, and in the process turns God into Gaia and morality into radical deep green environmentalism. – Ben Shapiro
894. If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has? – J. C. Ryle
895. The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible Belt, nor in parts of the Islamic world). Most people are at ease with the idea that our present biosphere is the outcome of four billion years of Darwinian evolution. – Martin Rees
896. Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God’s eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God’s timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy. – Adam Hamilton
897. I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch – it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time. – Nick Cave
898. When I joined the Senate in January 2011, I raised my right hand, placed my left hand on the Bible, and swore a solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Defending the constitutional domain of the branch of government in which I serve is an obligation of that oath. – Ron Johnson
899. If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we’ve thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone. – E. L. Doctorow
900. Since the birth of modern Orthodox Judaism in 19th-century Germany, a central goal of the movement has been to normalize the observance of traditional Jewish law – to make it possible to follow all 613 biblical commandments assiduously while still participating in the reality of the modern world. – Noah Feldman
901. Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it. – Karen Armstrong
902. I’ve known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. I’m not from a background of flamboyant believers. It’s much more a personal issue. – Michael Shannon
903. The notion of women being written out of history is as old as the Bible, but it always seems more galling when it is the history of progressive movements – such as the abolitionist campaign in Britain or the fight for African-American civil rights – in which the role of women has been diminished. – Emily Thornberry
904. The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord. – Jon Meacham
905. By forbidding Jews to destroy their hair, the Bible warns them away from seeking the siren song of eternal youth. By encouraging Jews to grow beards, it reminds them that they will not be young forever, that they must prepare the ground for those who come after, just as their fathers did for them. – Meir Soloveichik
906. How arrogant – how very far from humility – would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly – that’s not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible. – Sheldon Whitehouse
907. In the Bible, ordination – I don’t see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it’s whether you’re filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you’re anointed by God, whether you’re called by God, whether you’re obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don’t see any purpose for me in being ordained. – Anne Graham Lotz
908. One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it’s sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what’s in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business. – N. T. Wright
909. I wasn’t brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on – Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur’an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with. – Jennifer Connelly
910. Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business. – Joel Osteen
911. Ministers should be Bible students. They should thoroughly furnish themselves with the evidences of our faith and hope, and then, with full control of the voice and their feelings, present these evidences in such a manner that the people can calmly weigh them, and decide upon the evidences presented. – Ellen G. White
912. Looking back over the years, I realize the Bible isn’t magic, but it is corrective; it isn’t an answer book, it is a living book; it isn’t a fix-it book, it is relationship book. When I confront God’s word, I am confronted; when I read God’s word, it reads me; when I seek God’s presence, He seeks me. – Mike Yaconelli
913. The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine. – Radhanath Swami
914. My feminism is what came squarely up against my faith. There’s a lot of ecstatic post-patriarchal Christians who have stuff they do with that. But at that point, you’re doing Christianity with a double-superscript. The Bible, and especially the book of Genesis, is pretty unapologetically patriarchal. – John Darnielle
915. One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories helps us to understand God’s role in the world as well as our own position in a long line of ancestors who have wrestled with similar issues to the ones we wrestle with every day. – Bruce Feiler
916. I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I’m all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it. – Charles Stanley
917. Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be ‘old-time gospel preaching.’ This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states. – Tony Campolo
918. I think so many people have taken biblical scriptures out of context on this, to say stuff like, ‘Well, Jesus was a refugee.’ And yes, he did live in Egypt for three and a half years. But it was not illegal. If he had broke the law, then he would have been sinful and he would not have been our Messiah. – Paula White
919. With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country’s inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem – and largely a hindrance, not an asset. – Dennis Prager
920. I’m no longer religious, but the Bible fascinates me. Hardly anyone reads it anymore, but it’s got everything: it’s a book of poetry, it’s a book of principle, it’s a book of stories, and of myths and of epic tales, a book of histories and a book of fictions, of riddles, fables, parables and allegories. – Tara Westover
921. I once wrote that the first week in Jerusalem was the hardest week of my life. I was different, other; my clothes were different, as was my language. All of the classes were in Hebrew – science, bible, literature. I sat there not understanding one word. When I tried to speak, everyone would laugh at me. – Sayed Kashua
922. Justification and sanctification are both God’s work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won’t let us separate them. Both are gifts of our union with Christ, and within this double-blessing, justification is the root of sanctification and sanctification is the fruit of justification. – Tullian Tchividjian
923. The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts – understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly flourishing discipline that’s changing the whole story. – Simon Schama
924. ‘God Loves Uganda’ is a powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to change African culture with values imported from America’s Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting ‘sexual immorality’ and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow Biblical law. – Roger Ross Williams
925. The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is. – Maya Angelou
926. My family prayed a lot, but we didn’t really go to church. On Sunday, my mum and dad used to always tell me to read the Bible. That was important for me growing up, and I still do that every morning. It’s something that is part of my routine, and I do it every day, whether it’s a normal game or a big one. – Daniel Sturridge
927. The Bible… provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation. – James P. Carse
928. I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities. – Dylan Thomas
929. At no point do I ever remember taking religion very seriously or even feeling that the biblical stories were any different from fairy stories. Certainly, none of it made any sense. By comparison, the world in which I lived, though I might not always understand it in all aspects, always made a lot of sense. – Harry Kroto
930. Well I think fundamentally, what I think surprises me is the creationist movement, and the notion that somehow you can’t believe in God if you believe in evolution. But I don’t think there’s anything in the Bible which prevents a recognition that evolution is a highly plausible way that we came to be here. – Robert Winston
931. I am a follower of Jesus Christ. The Bible is my primary way of knowing Him and what it means to follow Him. And I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer’s handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy. – Adam Hamilton
932. I think evangelicals would do better if they concentrated less on bolstering the formal authority of the Scripture – which I certainly would want to affirm – and more on displaying how biblical texts can shape lives in salutary ways, how they are fruitful texts, how they are texts one can live according to. – Miroslav Volf
933. Printed media and other media indicated that Mr. Ellison was going to use the Koran, and that generated scores and hundreds of emails to my office. And so I thought it very important to state my view. And my view is that I don’t subscribe to the Koran, and I will now be using the Bible when I take the oath. – Virgil Goode
934. One of the bibles of my youth was ‘Birds of the West Indies,’ by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, ‘My God, that’s the dullest name I’ve ever heard,’ so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one. – Ian Fleming
935. I grew up with Bible stories, which are like fairy tales, because my father was a minister. We heard verses and prayers every day. I liked the gorier Bible stories. I did have a book of Chinese fairy tales. All the people except the elders looked like Italians. But we were not a family that had fiction books. – Amy Tan
936. My hope is that this life is not all there is. This life is like preparation for what is coming next, and what is coming next is something so glorious that the Bible says minds can’t conceive it, eye has never seen, your imagination could never even enter into all that God is preparing for those who love him. – Anne Graham Lotz
937. The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They’ve taken your Bible away from the schools. They’ve forbidden little children to pray. They’ve taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America. – Pat Robertson
938. There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view is, it’s called plenary inspiration, which holds that all religious truth taught in the Bible is true from God, but each word is not necessarily interpreted literally. – Robert H. Schuller
939. My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, ‘If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn’t be the problems that there are.’ In other words, ‘treat people the way you want to be treated.’ If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won’t make a right. – Monte Irvin
940. Cotton Mather’s publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians. – Edmund Morgan
941. First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I’m afraid that was my attitude, too. It’s terribly easy to get used to someone else’s poverty if you’re living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn’t possible to accept it, and I also didn’t want to. – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
942. The market for religious apps is fiercely competitive; searching for ‘bible’ in the Apple App Store returns 5,185 results. But among all the choices, YouVersion’s Bible, funded by LifeChurch.tv of Edmond, Oklahoma, seems to be the chosen one, ranking at the top of the list and boasting more than 641,000 reviews. – Nir Eyal
943. Something happens in school sometimes where you’re like, ‘Oh, I’m not an expert, and I have to defer to people who are.’ And it happens not just in school: it happens in religion, too. Defer to the experts. A printing press is a big deal – they got the Bible, and all of a sudden they could read it for themselves. – Sal Khan
944. In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that nature has its own intrinsic meaning and purpose, independent of man. – Dennis Prager
945. If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell. – Dan Brown
946. I was always fascinated by the Torah, the Bible, in terms of story telling: heroes and villains, morality and flaws. There’s no better epic. Also, being part Latin and Jewish means I have a sense of the theatrical. There were always a lot of people in my house. My home was always filled with a lot of storytellers. – Nina Tassler
947. My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text. – Leland Ryken
948. I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday. – Maya Angelou
949. Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I’ve seen again and again. – Ravi Zacharias
950. The state can be a force for good. The Rule of law is absolutely essential to a good life. God has instituted government and leaders throughout history and throughout the Biblical narrative. However, the state is growing precisely as the church is fading as a force for good, and this does not seem to be a good trend. – Dave Brat
951. I never played Freddy as real. In the true bible of Wes Craven’s outline for the films, Freddy only manifests himself in dreams. And a lot goes into a dream, not the least of which is imagination. So Freddy is secondhand information. Freddy is an urban legend that’s been handed down to these teenagers over the years. – Robert Englund
952. When you have closed the Bible, you have neither closed God’s mind nor shut God’s mouth. God continues to speak, live and exist. I think we should consult the living God for the living word for living people dealing with death, destruction and despair in the midst of our hurt humanity. I believe love will conquer all. – Michael Eric Dyson
953. When people think of biblical movies, they imagine sweeping epics like ‘The Ten Commandments.’ But ‘The Gospel According to St. Matthew’ is essentially a documentary about Jesus. It made me aware of how real life and personal experience can create more breathtaking, sensitive cinema than more sophisticated techniques. – Derek Cianfrance
954. Everyone sees something different in ‘Endgame’: a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth – not about the play, but about the person watching it. – Simon McBurney
955. The usefulness of religion – the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good – is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It’s not an argument that it’s reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe. – Sam Harris
956. The Bible has multiple accounts of people who were born with various conditions and in various states of existence, only to meet Jesus and be healed or delivered from whatever was their concern. Truly, there isn’t a human ever born into this life without having to contend with one issue or another along life’s journey. – Alveda King
957. The Bible app is designed to make absorbing the Word as frictionless as possible. For example, to make the Bible app habit easier to adopt, a user who prefers to not read at all can simply tap a small icon, which plays a professionally produced audio track, read with all the dramatic bravado of Charlton Heston himself. – Nir Eyal
958. The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the great city that fascinated and horrified the Biblical writers, people of different races and languages, drawn together in pursuit of wealth, tried for the first time to live together – and failed. – Neil MacGregor
959. The ‘means of grace’ are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord’s Supper. I lay it down as a simple matter of fact that no one who is careless about such things must ever expect to make much progress in sanctification. – J. C. Ryle
960. When you gaze at stars and think about planets, the places it takes your imagination are amazing! You look up the sky, and you know the stars have always been here; they were referenced in biblical times and have always been present. They are somewhere up there in the future, and they guide you; they make you feel safe. – Sarah Brightman
961. What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God’s, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated. – Philip Yancey
962. That’s why we trust the Bible – it speaks to both realities: the unchanging human condition and the constantly changing cultural conditions. It speaks to all generations. We trust the Bible because it’s the truth. It was the truth when it was written, and it is the truth now. It’s the truth now because it’s living truth. – Mike Yaconelli
963. Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you’re going, you just don’t know how you’re going to get there. When people say, ‘You should create a bible for your show,’ I say, ‘You don’t want a bible. It’ll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.’ And that’s what happened on ‘The X-Files.’ – Chris Carter
964. One day, I found this book at a used bookstore with ‘Satanic Bible’ written on the cover, and I thought maybe I should read it and see what it is. I thought it was like a religion, but then I read the book, and what was in it was pure life philosophy – and it was a life philosophy that described how I felt at that point. – King Diamond
965. When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them. – Jimmy Carter
966. It is essential that God created men and women to be one, as it is said in the first chapters of the Bible. So I think even if our culture is against marriage as essential form of relations between human beings, between women and men. I think our nature is always present, and we can understand it if we will understand it. – Pope Benedict XVI
967. So many people grew up in the church, and you can have an awesome upbringing, but I made a personal conviction; I made a personal decision when I was very young. I enjoy going to church without my parents. On Sunday mornings, I want to go. Bible studies on Wednesdays… I have a relationship – not just through my parents. – AJ Michalka
968. We started the family Bible after slavery was abolished. My great-grandmother remembered the Bible being started, which meant that she was a slave as a young girl. When she died, the Bible was at least 105 years old, so she must have been nearly 115 years old. Her daughter, my grandmother, died at 97, and her husband at 98. – Louis Gossett, Jr.
969. It wasn’t until 2002 when I returned to WWE and until I had physically been out there – it was during the match when Kevin Nash blew his quad. That next morning, I was sitting on the plane, reading my Bible and the Book of Joshua, and this feeling came over me that I was back here for a reason. God built me to be a wrestler. – Shawn Michaels
970. An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes. – H. P. Lovecraft
971. Logically, taking Scripture seriously means being passionately concerned about interpreting it correctly and thus welcoming any evidence that exposes erroneous understandings of the biblical text. Unfortunately, many zealous Bible students and teachers confuse their favorite interpretations of the Bible with the Bible itself. – Hugh Ross
972. It is somewhat surprising that collections of the ‘hundred best books,’ which usually begin with the Bible and generally include Marcus Aurelius, should give no place to the Acts of the General Councils, though mere literary works have done little beyond filling vacant hours, and these Acts have renewed the face of the earth. – Vincent McNabb
973. After I quit being a lawyer in ’95, I was having a lot of trouble writing. Then I read somewhere that Willa Cather read a chapter of the Bible every day before she started work. I thought, ‘Okay, I’ll try it.’ Before each writing session, I started to read the Bible like a writer, thinking about language, character, and themes. – Min Jin Lee
974. The actual truth about Gad is it’s one of the original 13 tribes of Israel, so you can actually trace my lineage back to, like, those guys who had, like, a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted, they didn’t have cameras back then, so none of them had TV shows. – Josh Gad
975. Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple – even simplistic – terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological. – Jon Meacham
976. Anthropomorphism is such an interesting concept. It means projecting human thoughts and emotions onto an animal. Which implies that thoughts and feelings belong to humans alone. Of course, if you believe in evolution, or if you believe in the Bible, that’s not so. Both evolution and the Bible tell us that we’re part of a family. – Sy Montgomery
977. Graham functioned as a megaphone for conservative biblical ideas that dovetailed with conservative politics, including family, sexual morality, and adherence to laws. He was not only an evangelist, he was also an enforcer: enforcing conservative white Christian social beliefs and evangelical ethical claims as ‘America’s Pastor.’ – Anthea Butler
978. I do go against my leadership all the time because I stand firm on the four questions that I ask about all legislation. The first, is it constitutional according to the original intent? The second, does it fit the Judeo-Christian Biblical principles that our nation is founded upon? Third, do we need it? Fourth, can we afford it? – Paul Broun
979. 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
980. Sometimes I feel that in religious content, religious drama, it’s almost told like a tale, like an account of facts, and in ‘A.D. The Bible Continues,’ it’s drama, it’s real drama that we like to see on TV today, seeing the characters struggle and doubt and be completely in conflict with each other, kind of like ‘House of Cards.’ – Juan Pablo Di Pace
981. When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. – John Shelby Spong
982. In evangelical and Pentecostal churches, most people have a home church they identify with, but you have a favourite pastor or evangelist that you listen to occasionally. Studying scripture means you don’t just read the Bible: you read devotional books and books designed to help your spiritual walk or the church broadly construed. – Anthea Butler
983. The Bible is big in my teaching. It’s a wonder the ACLU didn’t get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I’d write the parents and I’d tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice. – Bobby Bowden
984. The Bible is filled with stories about angels, but many of us have had our view of angels confused by popular misconceptions about them, the principal of which is that angels do not actually exist anymore than fairies do, or wood nymphs or water sprites. But they do exist, and the Bible attests to their existence innumerable times. – Eric Metaxas
985. Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, ‘OK, we’ll do it that way.’ And so you could get three of them. – Ursula Burns
986. Religious or biblical can sometimes be a little soft, but ‘A.D.’ doesn’t shy away from the violence of the time, the political intrigue. The story is really about the resurrection of faith, which is how the disciples went about keeping the word of Christ. So, they found all kinds of trouble and problems and torture and persecution. – Juan Pablo Di Pace
987. Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible. – Lady Gregory
988. When God put everybody here, I don’t think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That’s not what you see in the Bible. I disagree with that notion, so in my estimation, we’ve all been put on this planet to share it. It is our duty and our obligation and our responsibility to make sure that we’ve done so in the proper fashion. – Corey Feldman
989. I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that’s when I started to see radical love; that’s when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like. – Jeremy Lin
990. What’s true will never contradict what’s true. Article 2 of the Belgic Confession, based on Psalm 19, Romans 1, and several other texts, declares that God has given us two reliable revelations: the words of Scripture and the facts of nature. Thus, it would be impossible for the facts of nature ever to contradict the words of the Bible. – Hugh Ross
991. Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms. – Jon Meacham
992. There is not one particular moment that can account for the shift from the social issue concerns of 19th-century evangelicals into the state of American evangelicalism today. Some historical moments are telling. The rise of biblical criticism in the 19th century forced evangelicals to make choices about what they believed about the gospel. – Anthea Butler
993. One of the things I miss most is that I can no longer read, due to age-related macular degeneration. I get regular injections for this, and thankfully these seem to have arrested its progress, but it’s still very difficult for me to read. That means it is hard for me to pick up my Bible and read it like I used to, and I miss that very much. – Billy Graham
994. All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything – every natural and physical law – is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth. – Dennis Prager
995. I’m unfinished. I’m unfixed. And the reality is that’s where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in people’s lives at the worst possible time of their life. – Mike Yaconelli
996. I’m just a really normal, sensitive kind of go-about-my business everyday kinda guy. People see the tattoos, and they either read things or they see things and they don’t really know that I’m just this guy that gets up and makes coffee in the morning and hangs out with his friends and walks his dog and reads his Bible and goes about his day. – Joel Madden
997. It teaches us how to run our lives individually. How to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all our public policy and everything in society. And that’s the reason, as your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I’ll continue to do that. – Paul Broun
998. My mission today is to go forth and tell people about why I follow Christ and also what the Bible teaches, and part of that teaching is that women and men are meant to be together. However, I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all created by the Almighty and like Him, I love all of humanity. – Phil Robertson
999. Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible. – Pope Benedict XVI
1000. I can’t really sit around and talk with people who believe that the Bible is the way it happened, because that’s man-made. I’m a writer, too; that’s how I look at the Bible. Like, ‘I could’ve written a better version than that,’ you know? At least a more interesting one, and then maybe more people would go to church. I could definitely do a revamp. – John Prine