Bible Quotes - Page 14

• The Bible is a precious storehouse, and the Magna Charta of a Christian. There he reads of his Heavenly Father's love, and of his dying Saviour's legacies. There he sees a map of his travels through the wilderness, and a landscape, too, of Canaan.

  John Berridge

  Christian, Father, Dying

  JOHN BERRIDGE (1854). “THE CHRISTIAN WORLD UNMASKED”, p.38

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• if you search the bible, you will find no reference to birth control or gay marriage, and you will not find a word, strangely, about stem cell research. I have searched.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Gay, Cells, Birth Control

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• Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.

  Dorothee Solle

  Glasses, Today, Pairs

  Dorothee Sölle (1984). “The Strength of the Weak: Toward a Christian Feminist Identity”, p.155, Westminster John Knox Press

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• So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves.

  John Brown

  Heart, Expression, Soul

  John Brown (1797). “The posthumous works of the late Rev. Mr. John Brown, minister of the Gospel at Haddington: with short memoirs, and a summary of what he uttered in his last illness”, p.20

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• There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs and anthems.

  Joseph Addison

  Song, Passion, Writing

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index ...”, p.126

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• What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John; it is the Gospel according to William; it is the Gospel according to Mary; it is the Gospel according to Henry and James; it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Writing, Names, House

  Henry Ward Beecher (1869). “Royal Truths”, p.201

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• The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be forced to use it in another way-to find the Word in it...to re-live, while we read, the whole Jewish experience of God's gradual and graded self-revelation, to feel the very contentions between the Word and the human material through which it works.

  C. S. Lewis

  Biblical, Self, Order

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• There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims. It has no temple, nor even a solitary column. There goes a rumor that the earth is inhabited, but the shipwrecked mariner has not seen a footprint on the shore. The hunter has found only fragments of pottery and the monuments of inhabitants.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Rumor, Hunters

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.188, Xist Publishing

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• A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subjectfor Christianity. The New Testament may be a choice book to him on some, but not on all or most of his days. He will rather go a-fishing in his leisure hours. The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers, and never trolled for pickerel on inland streams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faith, Book, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.96, Penguin

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• The newspaper is a Bible which we read every morning and every afternoon, standing and sitting, riding and walking. It is a Biblewhich every man carries in his pocket, which lies on every table and counter, and which the mail, and thousands of missionaries, are continually dispersing. It is, in short, the only book which America has printed, and which America reads. So wide is its influence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Lying, Book

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• The Christian feels that the tooth of time gnaws all books but the Bible...19 centuries of experience have tested it. It has passed through critical fires no other volume has suffered and its spiritual truth has endured the flames and come out without so much as the smell of burning.

  W. Sangster

  Christian, Spiritual, Book

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• We must never edit God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Edits

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• It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Book, Long

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• I am going to put the Bible out of business.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Biblical

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• As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

  Edward Thomson

  Philosophy, Zion, Israel

  Edward Thomson (1856). “Essays, moral and religious”, p.35

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• The way I see it you can never learn enough about the Bible. You can never learn all the answers. I love the way the instructors present it and break it down to you. It's helped me greatly in preaching the gospel.

  Frank Minis Johnson

  Preaching The Gospel, Answers, Way

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• O Word of God incarnate . . .
  It is the golden casket
  Where gems of truth are stored;
  It is the heaven-drawn picture
  Of Thee, the Living Word.

  Walsham How

  Heaven, Golden, Caskets

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• The Bible is common-sense inspired.

  Rees Howells

  Common Sense, Common, Inspired

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• Scholars may quote Plato in studies, but the hearts of millions shall quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength from its inspiration, as the meadows draw it from the brook.

  Moncure D. Conway

  Plato, Inspiration, Heart

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• It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral atmosphere quite different from that which we breathe in the world, and in the world's literature.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Feelings, Atmosphere, Literature

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• We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring people into bondage to our religious traditions...We must no longer use the Bible as the Pharisees used the Torah when they gave it absolute and final status. Christian biblicism is no different from Jewish legalism. It is the old way of the letter, not the new way of the Spirit.

  Robert D. Brinsmead

  Christian, Religious, Biblical

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• He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil.

  Hayim Nahman Bialik

  Biblical, Kissing, Men

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• With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

  John Tillotson

  Book, World, Moses

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• All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• The Bible is still loved by millions, read by millions, and studied by millions. It remains the most published and most read book in the world of literature.

  Bernard Ramm

  Christian, Book, Literature

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