To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary.
We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.
The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.
I never read a self-help book except for the Bible.
When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity.
The Bible opens and closes with a wedding.
To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
I am one of those old-fashioned ministers who believe the whole Bible and everything that it contains.
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize in us the likeness to the original.
The Bible is the divine means of developing spiritual maturity. There is no other way.
If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.
Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.
The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great
People interpret things through their owns lens, just the way they do the Bible. You can find justification for just about everything in the Bible. I think man has got a great ego when it comes to his God, whatever that is. It just seems to me that someone who wants to take on God's punishment, it just seems a huge egoism to think that he should appoint himself to take care of God's punishments.
I read the Bible - every goddamn day.
The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
Christianity. . . that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried. . . A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.
There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture.
