2,152 Quotes About Bible

In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart.

There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of them asked, "Why on our hearts, and not in them?" The rabbi answered, "Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your heart, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs.

He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: “His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory” (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB).

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.