2,152 Quotes About Bible

Offense obscures our vision. Removing offense enables us to see people in wonderful, new ways.

People who don't want to be changed by Gospel, want to change the Gospel.

The concern of the scholar is primarily with what the text meant; the concern of the layperson is usually with what it means. The believing scholar insists that we must have both. Reading the Bible with an eye only to its meaning for us can lead to a great deal of nonsense as well as to every imaginable kind of error—because it lacks controls. Fortunately, most believers are blessed with at least a measure of that most important of all hermeneutical skills—common sense.

Miracles and signs are more potent when sprinkled rather than poured.

It seems strange to find a Baptist such as yourself so well acquainted with Jewish customs," I said."Yes, well, knowledge is a good thing. If the Bible says that the Jews are His chosen people, we ought to take it seriously.

The world isnot with us enoughO taste and seethe subway Bible poster said,meaning The Lord, meaningif anything all that livesto the imagination’s tongue,grief, mercy, language,tangerine, weather, tobreathe them, bite,savor, chew, swallow, transforminto our flesh ourdeaths, crossing the street, plum, quince,living in the orchard and beinghungry, and pluckingthe fruit.

Is my faith so terribly pathetic that I have diminished God to the point that I doubt His ability to survive in the very world that He came to save? Indeed, I have done exactly that. And all I need to do to beat that mentality is to remember that a baby born in a manger with every disadvantage imaginable stills lives today.

I admire the way the Bible defies anybody who wants to nail it on a preferred meaning. There are so many ways to interpret the Bible as there are different opinions about what a certain passage or verse really means. So anybody can go there and read a meaning into (eigesis) whatever passage or verse he wants to suit his inclinations. Proof that the Bible is inspired? It caters for all sorts of people and views.

They disregarded the Torah — either willfully, or because the knowledge of the laws regarding handling of the Ark was not properly taught generations to generation. They suffered the consequences for such disobedience. The Philistines are not beholden to our laws. They have no such sacred responsibility. However, they still were cursed because of their foolish boast that they’d been victorious over Yahweh — a notion that the pharaoh in Mosheh’s day learned by suffering his own plagues.