King James Bible Quotes

• Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

  Jim Butcher

  Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

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• My yoke is easy, and my burden light.

  Saint Boniface

  Bible, Jesus, Weary Heart

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• Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

  Thomas Hardy

  Heart, Peace With God, Loss Of A Loved One

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.3633, Delphi Classics

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• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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• Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.

  John F. Kennedy

  Bible, Strong, Discouraged

  Democratic National Convention Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 15 July 1960, Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles

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• Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee.

  Isaiah

  Bible, Trusting Him, Perfect

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• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha!

  Attila the Stockbroker

  Bible, Bread Of Life, Creator God

  Song "The Bible According to Rupert Murdoch", 1992.

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• If God is for us, who can be against us?

  Paul the Apostle

  Bible, God, Christian

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• In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Bible, Christ Consciousness, Bread Of Life

  N. Scott Momaday, Al Momaday (1969). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.7, UNM Press

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• ... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Bible, Money

  "Parents still tell kids to save money. That's really obsolete". Interview with Nastassia Arendse, citizen.co.za. March 8, 2017.

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• I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.

  Ken Follett

  Kings, Thinking, Parent

  "Ken Follett: Prolific writer, fan of 19th-century novels". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. September 23, 2012.

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• T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.

  Adam Nicolson

  Kings, Political, Purpose

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• The packaging for music has become a sort of King James Bible, where it elevates the contents to something more spiritual. This is something else that drove me to a newspaper format. I thought, "Let's put it in a newspaper, to get away from that spiritual thing."

  Stanley Donwood

  Spiritual, Kings, Packaging

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Kings, Mind, Poison

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.163, Faber & Faber

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• When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.

  Etgar Keret

  Kings, Hip Hop, Hips

  "My country right and wrong". Interview With Rory McCarthy, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2008.

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