Bible Quotes - Page 19

• I like to read the bible in public places where people are watching me read it. And I like to mumur out to myself: 'Bullshit!'

  Zach Galifianakis

  People, Bullshit

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• It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Mistake, Biblical, Looks

  William Sloane Coffin (2012). “The Heart Is a Little to the Left: Essays on Public Morality”, p.62, UPNE

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• I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Christian, Song, Grief

  "The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge".

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• This book out-lives, out-loves, out-fits, out-lasts, out-reaches, out-runs, and out-ranks all books. This book is faith producing. It is hope awakening. It is death destroying, and those who embrace it find forgiveness of sin.

  Arcturus Z. Conrad

  Christian, Running, Book

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• All Sacred Scriptures is but one book, and that one book is Christ, because all divine Scripture speaks of Christ, and all divine Scripture is fulfilled in Christ.

  Hugh of Saint Victor

  Christian, Book, Sacred Scripture

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• The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.

  Herrick Johnson

  Christian, Book, World

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• From all human oracles, however self-confident, we turn at last to the inspired Word, where instead of ambiguous and untrustworthy utterances, we find teachings distinct and definite, authoritative and infallible.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Christian, Teaching, Self

  Arthur Tappan Pierson (1910). “Knowing the Scriptures: Rules and Methods of Bible Study”

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• The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

  Alexander Pope

  War, Party, Biblical

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• Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Biblical, Found, Epoch

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.377, VM eBooks

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• Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Prayer, Biblical, Sublime

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• You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.

  Martin Luther

  Reading, Biblical, Giving

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• The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Home, Biblical, Men

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• The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this, the Pope is mortal, and the church cannot be afflicted with the same idiot forever. The Protestants have a book for their Pope. The book cannot advance. Year after year, and century after century, the book remains as ignorant as ever.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Book, Biblical, Years

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “Discussions”

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• The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer, Heart, Mean

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• The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

  George MacDonald

  Jesus, Biblical, Stories

  "An expression of character: the letters of George MacDonald".

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• The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

  John Quincy Adams

  Faith, Book, Attention

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• We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.

  George Washington

  God, Religious, Pardon

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• Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my heart by Thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of Thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in Thy fear, and dying in Thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of Thee and Thy son, Jesus Christ.

  George Washington

  God, Religious, Jesus

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• The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Let us secure His favor and He will lead us through the journey of this life and at length receive us to a better.

  Samuel Adams

  God, Religious, Strong

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• My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

  John Quincy Adams

  Morning, Godly, Presidential

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• The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

  Herbert Hoover

  Godly, Presidential, Library

  "The State Papers and Other Public Writings of Herbert Hoover".

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• The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the] Author: the Spirit of God.

  Billy Graham

  Book, Years, Long

  Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

  William E. Gladstone

  Men, Followers, World

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• For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

  Robert Jastrow

  Faith, Dream, Ignorance

  God and the Astronomers ch. 9 (1978)

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• I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  God, Christian, Religious

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