First we had the land and they had the Bibles, now we have the Bibles and they have the land
Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!
The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.
Tens of millions of Americans who neither know or understand the actual arguments for, or even against, evolution, march in the Army of the Night with their Bibles held high
I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.
While the Bibles account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation.
We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that will not give us religion. Theoretical religion is easy enough to get, any one may get that. What we want is practical religion.
If only more Christians read their bibles there'd be less Christians.
If we might reverently imagine ourselves scheming beforehand what kind of book the Book of God ought to be, how different would it be from the actual Bible! There would be as many Bibles as there are souls, and they would differ as widely. But in one thing, amid all their differences, they would probably agree: they would lack the variety, both in form and substance, of the Holy Book which the Church of God places in the hands of her children.
We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.
We need to realize that the promises that overflow our Bibles will overflow into our own lives only as we appropriate them through prayer.
Holy men of old were moved upon by the Holy Spirit and the revelation given to them is God's Word in the Holy Scriptures. Is God speaking any less today through holy men called of God to bring a message through revelation to this generation?. . . We wave our Bibles and cry, 'This is the Word of' God. ' Indeed it is God's Word, but the Holy Spirit yet brings revelation to this generation today that is no less God's Word. . . The prophet is not a method that God uses; but in fact is the only method he uses to speak to this generation.
Jack Abramoff is going to testify against some of the other weasels in Congress. A lobbyist testifying against congressmen? How many Bibles are going to burst into flames in that courtroom?
Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each line, Fair print and paper, fraught with sense divine; Tho' some, neglectful, seldom care to read, And faithful wives no more than bibles heed. Are women books? says Hodge, then would mine were An Almanack, to change her every year.
More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.
Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.
"Study Bible" is the expression used for Bibles that include significant explanatory notes, usually at the bottom of the page, sometimes in the margins. Often a Study Bible will also include some brief articles, photographs of geographical and archaeological sites, fairly extensive maps, and charts that summarize a lot of information.
Most Christians have more Bibles than they know what to do with, but have little understanding of what is in them.
Many who read their Bibles make the great mistake of confining all their reading to certain portions of the Bible which they enjoy. In this way they get no knowledge of the Bible as a whole. They miss altogether many of the most important phases of Bible truth.
