Biblical Quotes

• When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bible, Prayer, Eye

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• Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made.

  Phillips Brooks

  Bible, Jesus, Christ

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• The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Bible, Book, Conquer

  The Watchtower magazine, May 15, 1992.

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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

  Bible, Mistake, Looks

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

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• That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

  Thomas Paine

  Lying, Religion, Doe

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.336

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• No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Our Theatres In The Nineties". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1932.

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• Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Bible, Years, House

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• The Bible is a wonderful book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the Truth. A sermon taken from the Bible can be a wonderful thing to hear. It is the truth about the truth about the truth. But it is not the truth. There have been many books written about the things contained in the Bible. I have written some myself. They can be quite wonderful to read. They are the truth about the truth about truth about the Truth. But they are NOT the Truth. Only Jesus Christ is the Truth. Sometimes the Truth can be drowned in a multitude of words.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Bible, Jesus, Book

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• One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Bible, Believe, Book

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.71, Bethany House

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• For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.

  Martin Luther

  Bible, Years, Tree

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table Talk”

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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

  Bible, Reading, Giving

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• Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Oh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture, and to let it be sucked up in your very soul, till it saturates your heart!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, Heart, Hands

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1882). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”

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• Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Beer, People

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• Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bible, Ocean, Men

  "Life Thoughts".

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• The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Bible, Christian, Spiritual

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• The word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress.

  Billy Graham

  Bible, Heart, Voice

  Billy Graham (1989). “How To Be Born Again”, p.39, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The observant man recognizes many mysteries into which he can not pretend to see, and he remembers that the world is too wide for the eye of one man. But the modern sophists are sure of everything, especially if it contradicts the Bible.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, Eye, Men

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• The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Bible, Religious

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• Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

  C. S. Lewis

  Bible, Way, Odd

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper and leather. The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. 'The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.' The life is in the speaking words. God's word in the Bible can have power only because it corresponds to God's Word in the universe. It is the present Voice which makes the written word powerful. Otherwise it would lie locked in slumber within the covers of a book.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Bible, Powerful, Lying

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• We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.

  J. I. Packer

  Bible, Mind, Church

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• The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Bible, Book, Race

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• Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bible, Spiders, Generations

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.8

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• Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

  John the Apostle

  Tongue, Scripture, Action

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• There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.

  Solomon

  Bible, Dance, Dancing

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