2,152 Quotes About Bible

Dig your well for yourself, and also for the people who will follow along after you.

I know one thing… Bible is Damn wrong about everything.

What the Ancient Liar did to Eve at the beginning of things he did to me. The Mother of All was a mighty woman. She thought to outface the Serpent. She thought to brazen it though as she were herself equal to evil.

Some people use the Bible as medicine. Others use it as poison." - Charles James

The good news is as epic as it gets, with universal theological implications, and yet the Bible tells it from the perspective of fishermen and farmers, pregnant ladies and squirmy kids. This story about the nature of God and God's relationship to humanity smells like mud and manger hay and tastes like salt and wine...It is the biggest story and the smallest story all at once--the great quest for the One Ring and the quiet friendship of Frodo and Sam.

While it is true after Genesis 3 we are sinners, we are still made in the image of God, no matter how broken that image is. Beauty is more primal than the curse; and we were children before we were runaways.

When it comes to my life, I may chase the pay-off of the moment or I may pay-it-forward into my future. Yet, being ‘righteous’ in these choices may grant me neither so that God might grant me everything.

This is why the Bible doesn’t end how it starts. It starts in a garden but ends in a city. It starts with Law, but ends with intimacy. It starts with God in a tent, but ends with God in us.

In the hierarchy of meaning, a pure language would have meaning not just in the words but also in the letters that make up the words. We could also have hidden within the text, a coded language of meaning or even several coded languages. This appears to be the case with the original text of the Bible.