Bible Quotes - Page 17

• The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Accepted, Allowance

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.491, Simon and Schuster

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• Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.

  Miles Franklin

  People, Coward, Doe

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths.

  Horace Bushnell

  Fire, Discovery, Depth

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• The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

  Edith Hamilton

  Men, Records, Speak

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• The Bible is literature, not dogma.

  George Santayana

  Religious, Hygiene, Religion

  Benedictus de Spinoza, George Santayana (1910). “Spinoza's Ethics and "De Intellectus Emendatione".”

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• As the moon, though darkened with spots, gives us a much greater light than the stars that sewn all-luminous, so do the Scriptures afford more light than the brightest human authors. In them the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

  Robert Boyle

  Stars, Ignorance, Moon

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• The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

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• Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.124, Regnery Publishing

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• God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with delight.

  James Hervey

  Flower, Different, Delight

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• Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?

  Abraham Cowley

  Yield, Aeneas, Land

  Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1710). “The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed, and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies ; with The Cutter of Coleman-street”

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• Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

  Abraham Lincoln

  Faith, Book, Reading

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• The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sacred Scripture, Morality, Hinduism

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• Consider the wave of revulsion that floods the average person when he or she hears of the practice of human sacrifice by the Aztecs and other so-called primitive peoples. How savage and barbaric such practices seem. But when a Christian or Jew comes across human sacrifice in the Bible (see Jephthah's immolation of his daughter in Judges 11:30-40), is he or she repulsed?

  Steve Allen

  Christian, Daughter, Religious

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• The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.

  John Adams

  God, Christian, Religious

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.421

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• To preach the Bible as 'the handbook for life,' or as the answer to every question, rather than as the revelation of Christ, is to turn the Bible into an entirely different book. This is how the Pharisees approached Scripture, as we can see clearly from the questions they asked Jesus. For the Pharisees, the Scriptures were a source of trivia for life's dilemmas.

  Michael Horton

  Jesus, Book, Biblical

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• It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book that was as simple to me as the multiplication table and say, “This is the Word of God; in it He has revealed His whole will and wisdom,” I would shake my head and say, “I cannot believe it; that is too easy to be a perfect revelation of infinite wisdom.” There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.

  R. A. Torrey

  Believe, Book, Character

  "Difficulties In The Bible".

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• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

  Samuel Butler

  Biblical, May, Nothing But The Truth

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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• You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say "God is love" they will claim that you are taking things out of context!

  Dan Barker

  Biblical, Tyrants, Two

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Biblical, Spiders, Generations

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.8

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• We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.

  J. I. Packer

  Biblical, Mind, Church

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• The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

  Calvin Coolidge

  God, Country, Religious

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• The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

  Thomas Paine

  Religious, Book, Biblical

  Thomas Paine, Thomas ERSKINE (Baron Erskine.) (1797). “A Letter to the Honourable T. Erskine [the Counsel for the Crown] on the prosecution of T. Williams, for publishing"The Age of Reason.".”, p.15

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• It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.

  Joseph Butler

  Book, Biblical, Long

  Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax (1848). “The works of ... Joseph Butler ... to which is prefixed: an account of the character and writings of the author”, p.196

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• The theories of men changed from day to day. Much that is taught new will tomorrow be in the discard, but the word of the Lord will endure forever.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Christian, Men, Forever

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• Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Devil, Roaring, Lions

  Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer (2010). “Wild Ride”, p.187, Macmillan

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