2,152 Quotes About Bible

It is rare to find an established community of Christians that encourages radical expressions of following Jesus. The natural conservatism of institutions is deeply rooted in the desire to survive, and that desire colors and limits the way they read the Bible and how they see God functioning in the world.

The secret to strong leaders is that strong leaders are strong because they have been tempered by the negative. They have discovered the secret of combining the negative and the positive to PRODUCED their very own POWER plant!

Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New.

One proof of the inspiration of the Bible is that it has withstood so much poor preaching.

Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so — but, Anne, it won't be what I've been used to.

Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

All my days were written in Your book and planned before a single one of them began.Psalm 139:16

The bible when taken metaphorically, provides us the truth about god; but when taken literally, the bible provides as the truth about man.

You must not suppose that I would like you to profess religion without possessing it. A hypocrite is in my opinion one of the most detestable of beings. my opinion is, that every one should honestly and carefully investigate the Bible; and if he can believe it to be the word of God, to follow its teachings." - Brevet Major Thomas J. Jackson (1 March 1851)