Biblical Quotes

He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil.

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.

This generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy.

If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.

I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime of the real world.

This is the age of bargain hunters. If it had been this way in biblical times, we'd probably have been offered another commandment free if we had accepted the first ten.

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?

In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.

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.

To make sure our convictions, views, and assumptions about our Creator stay based on biblical truth and not on popular consensus, we must continually check what we believe against the Scriptures.

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.

Biblical counseling is listening to a person long enough until you hear a violation of scripture.

Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing.

If we want to live healthy relationships, according to biblical standards, it is done in the fullness of the Spirit.

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.

What we really need, after all, is not to defend the Bible but to understand it.

The Bible itself is intolerant, and true followers of God's word should be as well.

Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.

The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it

...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.

The Christian community continues to exist because the conclusions of the critical study of the Bible are largely withheld from them.

We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden.

The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching.

Bible reading is an education in itself.

I am going to put the Bible out of business.

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

I've talked to biblical cats, and Neanderthals who been here since day one. No one here has even seen the Big Boss. Ever.

Give God what's right, not what's left!

Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.

When your vision is a biblical vision, the people arguing with it are not arguing with you. They are arguing with God.

One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion.

It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.

The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

Contrary to our culture, the Biblical doctrine of Grace humbles us without degrading us, and elevates us without inflating us.

Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.

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.

The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.

Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

The goal of Bible translation is: be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.