Bible Quotes - Page 15

• A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Presidential, World

  "The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1909-1910".

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• The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Book, Biblical, Suffering

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.101, Bethany House

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• We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead.

  John Stott

  Christian, Needs, Way

  "Authentic Christianity". Book by John Stott, 1995.

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• I revere the fullness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and creation. In the gospel moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His Word.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Scripture, Creation

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.821, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force, and human brutality could bring to bear against this Book, and yet the Bible stands absolutely unshaken today. At times almost all the wise and great of the earth have been pitted against the Bible, and only an obscure few for it. Yet it has stood.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Wise, Art

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• I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word. This proved meat indeed and drink indeed to my soul. I daily received fresh life, light and power from above.

  George Whitefield

  Christian, Book, Light

  George Whitefield (2000). “George Whitefields's Journals”, p.27, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again. We shall meet with many passages which we can make little improvement of, but not so many in the second reading as in the first, and fewer in the third than in the second: provided we pray to him who has the keys to open our understandings, and to anoint our eyes with His spiritual ointment.

  John Newton

  Christian, Spiritual, Reading

  John Newton (1824). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ...”, p.466

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• Once we truly grasp the message of the New Testament, it is impossible to read the Old Testament again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative. The Bible must be read as a whole, beginning with Genesis and ending with Revelation, letting promise and fulfillment guide or expectations for what we will find there.

  Michael Horton

  Christian, Expectations, Promise

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• The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere.

  John Adams

  Jesus, Destiny, Men

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• Weakness is strength.

  George Orwell

  Weakness

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• The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.

  John Flavel

  Life, Christian, Suffering

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• In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well.

  Martin Luther

  Too Much, Scripture, Teach

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia Publishing House

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• We are indebted to the Book of books (Bible) for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering to it's precepts.

  Herbert Hoover

  Book, Presidential, Institutions

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• There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.

  Herbert Hoover

  Book, Presidential, Various

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about these things, and inquire from the Scriptures all these things.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Men, Thinking

  "The Homilies of Saint John Chrysostom: On the Second Epistle of Saint Paul".

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• To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so called, such as the Koran...or the book of Mormon, is positively absurd. You might as well compare the sun with a rushlight, or Skiddaw with a molehill, or St. Paul's with an Irish hovel, or the Portland vase with a garden pot, or the Kohinoor diamond with a bit of glass. God seems to have allowed the existence of these pretended revelations, in order to prove the immeasurable superiority of His own Word.

  J. C. Ryle

  Book, Garden, Glasses

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• The Bible towers in content above all earlier religious literature; and it towers just as impressively over all subsequent literature in the direct simplicity of its message and...its appeal to men of all lands and times.

  William F. Albright

  Religious, Men, Land

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• Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.

  Martin Buber

  Christian, Attitude, Book

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• In my experience when critics raise these objections, they invariably violate one of seventeen principles for interpreting the Scriptures....For example, assuming the unexplained is unexplainable....failing to understand the context of the passage....assuming a partial report is a false report...neglecting to interpret difficult passages in light of clear ones; basing a teaching on an obscure passage; forgetting that the Bible uses nontechnical, everyday language; failing to remember the Bible uses different literary devices.

  Norman Geisler

  Teaching, Light, Everyday

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• The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the church and the Sabbath school, so that it seemed, before I read it, to be the yellowest book in the catalogue. Yet I early escaped from their meshes. It was hard to get the commentaries out of one's head and taste its true flavor. [...] It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Christian, Dream, Jesus

  "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1849.

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• My father's life was changed right before my eyes [when he trusted Christ]. It was like someone reached down and switched on a light inside him. He touched alcohol only once after that. He got the drink only as far as his lips and that was it-after forty years of drinking! He didn't need it any more. Fourteen months later, he died form complications of his alcoholism. But in that fourteen-month period over a hundred people in the area around my tiny hometown committed their lives to Jesus Christ because of the change they saw in the town drunk, my dad.

  Josh McDowell

  Jesus, Dad, Father

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• Jesus accepted the plenary [i.e., complete, extending to all its parts] inspiration of the Bible; when first approached by the devil to turn stones into bread, our Lord replied that man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4 quoting Deut. 8:3). He did not say, "some words" but "every word." If Scripture is breathed out from God (2 Tim. 3:16), then Scripture must be included in what sustains man, not only parts of Scripture but all of it.

  Charles Caldwell Ryrie

  Jesus, Inspiration, Men

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• Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart.

  Paul the Apostle

  Heart, Colossians, Working For God

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• We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past.... The Bible's "Israel" is a literary fiction... Not only have Adam and Eve and the flood story passed over to mythology, but we can no longer talk about a time of the patriarchs. There never was a "United Monarchy" in history and it is meaningless to speak of pre-exilic prophets and their writings... The Bible deals with the origin traditions of a people who never existed as such

  Thomas L. Thompson

  Writing, Past, Israel

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• The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like Job

  John A. Keel

  Jobs, Supernatural Beings, Soul

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