Bible Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Him in His glorious presence forever. Everyone else will be left behind to face God's wrath and judgment. If Jesus were to return today, do you know if He would take you with Him to heaven?.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Wrath, Forever

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• There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one, so that no one will presume.

  Matthew Henry

  Despair, Bed, Thieves

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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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• A lot can happen in a week - just read any Bible, .. On the seventh day, Election Day, unlike the Bible, we can't rest.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Election, Week, Happens

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• A noble book! all men's book!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Men, Noble

  Thomas Carlyle (2010). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History”, p.67, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• My brother, if it's not in the Bible, He's not in it!! If it's not in the Word of God, He is not in it.

  Benny Hinn

  Brother, Word Of God, Ifs

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• According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.

  Bill Vaughan

  Body, Scripture, States

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• It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8. Once you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you.

  Bill Hybels

  Spiritual, Leader, Training

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• There is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material.

  Walter Lang

  Christian, Pressure, Materials

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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 think every citizen in Burlington has a right to voice their opinion and participate in the local political process no matter who they are or what they are or where they come from or what their religious beliefs are. But for me to base all of my decisions based on my reading of the Holy Bible just isn't going to happen.

  Tim Scott

  Religious, Reading, Thinking

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• I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Kings, Book, Thinking

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• Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.

  Dorothee Solle

  Glasses, Today, Pairs

  Dorothee Sölle (1984). “The Strength of the Weak: Toward a Christian Feminist Identity”, p.155, Westminster John Knox Press

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• In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

  Robert Boyle

  Ignorance, Knowing, Ignorant

  Robert Boyle (1675). “Some considerations touching the style of the H. Scriptures; extracted from ... a discourse, concerning divers particulars belonging to the Bible ... The third edition”, p.53

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• I use the Scriptures, not as an arsenal to be resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as a matchless temple, where I delight to be, to contemplate the beauty, the symmetry, and the magnificence of the structure, and to increase my awe, and excite my devotion to the Deity there preached and adored.

  Robert Boyle

  Use, Delight, Arms

  Robert Boyle (1835). “Treatises on the High Veneration Man's Intellect Owes to God...”, p.158

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• read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of it. There is a Bible in words of one syllable; I am happy to say I have never seen it. Such a monstrosity should be put alongside of the Rhyming Bible, of which, I believe, only one copy is in existence.

  Laura E. Richards

  Children, Believe, Rhyming

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• As a Fundamentalist I had discovered while I was in college that it is possible to dismiss the entire Church as having gone off the rails by about AD 95. That is, we, with our open Bibles, knew better than did old Ignatius or Clement, who had been taught by the very apostles themselves, just what the Church is and what it should look like.

  Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

  College, Church, Looks

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• It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral atmosphere quite different from that which we breathe in the world, and in the world's literature.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Feelings, Atmosphere, Literature

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• 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 a precious storehouse, and the Magna Charta of a Christian. There he reads of his Heavenly Father's love, and of his dying Saviour's legacies. There he sees a map of his travels through the wilderness, and a landscape, too, of Canaan.

  John Berridge

  Christian, Father, Dying

  JOHN BERRIDGE (1854). “THE CHRISTIAN WORLD UNMASKED”, p.38

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