Bible Quotes - Page 16

• My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from it. I think faith and guidance can help fortify a young woman's sense of self, a young man's sense of responsibility, and a sense of reverence all young people for the act of sexual intimacy.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Responsibility, Men

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our nation, on the character of God, on the great moral Governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free Institutions. From no source has this author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible, I make no apology.

  William Holmes McGuffey

  God, Christian, Country

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• Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

  William Hull

  Sympathy, Support, Captains

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• Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Book, Done, Revelations

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.200, University of Georgia Press

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• The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.

  Casey Kasem

  Two, Stories, Firsts

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• It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

  William James

  Religious, Book, Reading

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.173, Routledge

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• In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Thinking, Vices, World

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached.

  Thomas Paine

  Stupid, May, Talent

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.101, e-artnow

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• The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Self, Dogma, Pope

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays”, p.40, tredition

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• I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Jobs, Book, Religion

  "On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History".

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• The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Religious, Sublime, Literature

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• I've gotten letters, but mostly from Bible-belt types who say, you must be Satan! They come right out and call me Satan and hope that I'm damned to hell.

  George A. Romero

  Letters, Satan, Hell

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• Light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Light, Darkness, Promise

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• We had to have a star each week.. Possibly our program being on Sunday and having a little fun with the Bible was dangerous.

  Edgar Bergen

  Stars, Fun, Sunday

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• And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Stupidity, Speak

  Thomas Paine (1821). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.82

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• I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could write a book like that.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Fear, Book

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.449, Library of Alexandria

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• The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with them. The sweetest joys, yea, the sweetest of the sweetest falls to his portion who has God's truth to be his heritage.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Fall, Blessing

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• We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed by the united tyranny of Church and State, for the purpose of keeping people in ignorance, and which ought to be known.

  Thomas Paine

  Ignorance, People, Church

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.364

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• We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would be many more wrecks if it were not for the divine storm-signals which give to the watchful a timely warning. The Bible should be our Mentor, our Monitor, our Memento Mori, our Remembrancer, and the Keeper of our Conscience.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Blessing, Sea

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “The Treasury of David: Containing an Original Exposition of the Book of Psalms, a Collection of Illustrative Extracts from the Whole Range of Literature, a Series of Homiletical Hints Upon Almost Every Verse, and Lists of Writers Upon Each Psalm. Ps. 1-26. I”, p.309

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• The religion of the Bible is the best in the world. I see the infinite value of religion. Let it be always encouraged. A world ofsuperstition and folly have grown up around its forms and ceremonies. But the truth in it is one of the deep sentiments in human nature.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Religion, World, Human Nature

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• The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--which orthodox people have of the divinity of the Bible, I disbelieve. I am so nearly infidel in all my views, that too, in spite of my wishes, that none but the most liberal doctrines can command my assent.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Believe, Views, People

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• One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Reading, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.378, Penguin

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• I threw out all the bath water, and there was no baby there.

  Dan Barker

  Baby, Water, Baths

  Dan Barker (2009). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.48, Ulysses Press

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• In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments.

  Israel Shenker

  Fate, Men, Rewards

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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