Bible Quotes - Page 14

• Scholars may quote Plato in studies, but the hearts of millions shall quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength from its inspiration, as the meadows draw it from the brook.

  Moncure D. Conway

  Plato, Inspiration, Heart

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• The Bible is common-sense inspired.

  Rees Howells

  Common Sense, Common, Inspired

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• The Bible is still loved by millions, read by millions, and studied by millions. It remains the most published and most read book in the world of literature.

  Bernard Ramm

  Christian, Book, Literature

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• We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead.

  John Stott

  Christian, Needs, Way

  "Authentic Christianity". Book by John Stott, 1995.

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• I revere the fullness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and creation. In the gospel moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His Word.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Scripture, Creation

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.821, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force, and human brutality could bring to bear against this Book, and yet the Bible stands absolutely unshaken today. At times almost all the wise and great of the earth have been pitted against the Bible, and only an obscure few for it. Yet it has stood.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Wise, Art

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• I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word. This proved meat indeed and drink indeed to my soul. I daily received fresh life, light and power from above.

  George Whitefield

  Christian, Book, Light

  George Whitefield (2000). “George Whitefields's Journals”, p.27, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation.

  Reggie White

  Running, Lying, Speak

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• If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspiration, Needs, Can Do

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4140, Library of Alexandria

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• Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart.

  Paul the Apostle

  Heart, Colossians, Working For God

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• The red library is Sui's tribute to fashion maven Diana Vreeland, who served as editor for Harper's Bazaar (1939-1962) and Vogue (1963-1961). My most precious collection is my bound Vogue magazines, .. and they're kind of like my Bible. I look at them all the time when I'm trying to inspire myself for a collection.

  Anna Sui

  Fashion, Vogue Magazine, Editors

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• I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Jobs, Book, Religion

  "On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History".

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• In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments.

  Israel Shenker

  Fate, Men, Rewards

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.

  Casey Kasem

  Two, Stories, Firsts

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• Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

  William Hull

  Sympathy, Support, Captains

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• The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Self, Dogma, Pope

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays”, p.40, tredition

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• I've gotten letters, but mostly from Bible-belt types who say, you must be Satan! They come right out and call me Satan and hope that I'm damned to hell.

  George A. Romero

  Letters, Satan, Hell

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• Light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Light, Darkness, Promise

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• We had to have a star each week.. Possibly our program being on Sunday and having a little fun with the Bible was dangerous.

  Edgar Bergen

  Stars, Fun, Sunday

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• In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Thinking, Vices, World

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached.

  Thomas Paine

  Stupid, May, Talent

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.101, e-artnow

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• And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Stupidity, Speak

  Thomas Paine (1821). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.82

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• We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed by the united tyranny of Church and State, for the purpose of keeping people in ignorance, and which ought to be known.

  Thomas Paine

  Ignorance, People, Church

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.364

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• It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.

  John Quincy Adams

  Passion, Practice, Government

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• The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.

  John Quincy Adams

  World, Creation, Revelations

  John Quincy Adams (1850). “Letters by John Quincy Adams, on the Study of the Bible”, p.20

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