The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. So you can't masturbate without lust.
Perfect love casteth out fear.
The main subject in the Bible from the beginning of Genesis through Revelation is none other than Jesus.
The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.
Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have allowed scholars and textual critics to go back and verify that the Bible we have in our possession today is the same Bible that the early church possessed 2,000 years ago.
Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.
There would be no need for the women's movement if the church and Bible hadn't abused them
The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.
. . . Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me. . . Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
the Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.
I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.
I don't think I have a split personality. I believe the same person I am on the field is the same person I am at home - passionate about everything I do, whether it's reading a Bible or just hanging out with my wife.
In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.
Some, in their curiosity, will say, "But you Mormons have another Bible! Do you believe in the Old and New Testaments?" I answer we do believe in the Old and New Testaments, and we have also another book, called the Book of Mormon. What are the doctrines of the Book of Mormon? The same as those of the Bible.
As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.
Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.
The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problemsâthe meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.
