Biblical Quotes - Page 21

• The modern-day gospel says, 'God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. Therefore, follow these steps, and you can be saved.' Meanwhile, the biblical gospel says, 'You are an enemy of God, dead in your sin, & in your present state of rebellion, you are not even able to see that you need life, much less to cause yourself to come to life. Therefore, you are radically dependent on God to do something in your life that you could never do.

  David Platt

  Love You, Enemy, Needs

  115 Copy quote

• Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Jobs, Blessing

  250 Copy quote

• If you are a member of a small group or class, I urge you to make a group covenant that includes the nine characteristics of biblical fellowship: We will share our true feelings (authenticity), forgive each other (mercy), speak the truth in love (honesty), admit our weaknesses (humility), respect our differences (courtesy), not gossip (confidentiality), and make group a priority (frequency).

  Rick Warren

  Honesty, Humility, Class

  30 Copy quote

• There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Two, Yesterday

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Taken, Discovery

  12 Copy quote

• The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.

  Billy Sunday

  Reason, Knows, Sinner

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1914). “Salesman's Prospectus for "Billy" Sunday: The Man and His Message, with His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

  173 Copy quote

  Show source

• To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries

  Richard Dawkins

  Editors, Evil, Religion

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.268, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Christian, Men

  257 Copy quote

• Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway.

  Richard Rohr

  Ideas, Achievement, Ordinary

  32 Copy quote

• We stand in the shadow of the Bible today as opposed to in the pages of the Bible. I think that the biblical illiteracy comes as a direct result of a failure to recognize that the DNA of western civilization comes from a biblical worldview.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Thinking, Dna, Civilization

  Source: www.christianpost.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• From arts, to literature, to science, to the founding of Christian institutions, all of that has its roots in a biblical worldview, but when you fail to recognize that it's the systemic reality of the greatest civilization in the history of humanity, you can become apathetic about what you actually now have. We have something that generations of people did not have.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Christian, Art, Reality

  Source: www.christianpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that we're guided by the motto in "essentials unity, non essentials liberty and in all things charity." So if pastors compromise essential Christian doctrine, I think that there is a biblical warrant for naming them.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Christian, Thinking, Unity

  Source: www.christianpost.com

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Thinking, People

  "Dr. Charles Stanley: Learning to Walk Wisely". Interview with Craig von Buseck, www.cbn.com.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

  Mark Twain

  Discovery, Innovation, Religion

  Quoted in Albert B. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the great disadvantages of a literary or scriptural tradition like the biblical one is that a deity or context of deities becomes crystallized, petrified at a certain time and place. The deity doesn’t continue to grow, expand, or take into account new cultural forces and new realizations in the sciences, and the result is this make-believe conflict we have in our culture between science and religion.

  Joseph Campbell

  Believe, Culture, Realization

  53 Copy quote

• The biblical purpose of every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that they person who hears you will receive grace.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Grace, Purpose, Conversation

  17 Copy quote

• The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a witness of resurrection from death. Paradoxically, those who embark on the biblical witness constantly risk death - through execution, exile, imprisonment, persecution, defamation, or harassment - at the behest of the rulers of this age. Yet those who do not resist the rulers of the present darkness are consigned to a moral death, the death of their humanness. That, of all the ways of dying, is the most ignominious.

  William Stringfellow

  Darkness, Risk, Dying

  39 Copy quote

• In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard Drive.

  Paul Washer

  Tools, Research, Study

  36 Copy quote

• There is no such thing as biblical dating. If you're dating, I don't care who you're dating, you're out of God's will. If you're a young man and you're dating, you're out of God's will. Period. You can come talk to me about it later, you can be mad if you want. But that's just the truth. There's no such thing as recreational dating. There is biblical courtship, there is no recreational dating.

  Paul Washer

  Men, Mad, Dating

  25 Copy quote

• The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we are all created equal and endowed by the Creator, God, with our unalienable rights.

  Alan Keyes

  Rights, Creator God, Perspective

  4 Copy quote

• Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people we honor as prophets, there were the people we condemn as false prophets. But if you look at the biblical record, at the time, it was the other way around. The flatterers of the Court of King Ahab were the ones who were honored. The ones we call prophets were driven into the desert and imprisoned.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kings, Mean, Ahab

  "The U.S. Role in the World". Interview with Harry Kreisler, globetrotter.berkeley.edu. March 22, 2002.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them, and man-haters, and failures in their relationships with men, and who have declared war on the male gender. The biblical condemnation of feminism has to do with its radical philosophy and goals. That's the bottom line.

  Jerry Falwell

  Philosophy, War, Men

  13 Copy quote

• The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.

  Pope John Paul II

  People, Tasks, Urgent

  4 Copy quote

• It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Savior

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.176, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church; the church is not the foundation for or creator of the Bible. The church and its hierarchy must be evaluated by the believer with the biblical gospel as the touchstone or plumb line for judging all truth claims.

  Timothy Keller

  Judging, Church, Foundation

  4 Copy quote