Biblical Quotes

• When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bible, Prayer, Eye

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• Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule by self-appointed men who claim to rule for God. In reality, theocracy in Biblical law is the closest thing to a radical libertarianism that can be had.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Reality, Men, Self

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• A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Letting Go, Understanding

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• Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made.

  Phillips Brooks

  Bible, Jesus, Christ

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• To make sure our convictions, views, and assumptions about our Creator stay based on biblical truth and not on popular consensus, we must continually check what we believe against the Scriptures.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Believe, Views, Scripture

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• If the biblical account of creation in Genesis isn't true, how can we trust the rest of the Bible?

  Beverly LaHaye

  Scary, Creation, Genesis

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• As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality.

  William A. Dembski

  Believe, Teaching, Bows

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• The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.

  Russell D. Moore

  Progress, Fallen World, Complicated

  Source: sojo.net

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• A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

  Walter Martin

  People, Devil, Prophet

  Walter Martin, Ravi Zacharias (2003). “The Kingdom of the Cults”, p.555, Baker Books

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• The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.

  Mark Hatfield

  Christian, Jesus, Opportunity

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• You become a disciple in the biblical sense only when you are totally and completely committed to Jesus Christ and His Word.

  Greg Laurie

  Jesus, Christ, Committed

  Greg Laurie (2011). “Let God Change Your Life: How to Know and Follow Jesus”, p.86, David C Cook

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• Christianity is not a series of truths in the plural, but rather truth spelled with a capital 'T.' Truth about total reality, not just about religious things.
  
  Biblical Christianity is Truth concerning total reality - and the intellectual holding of that total Truth and then living in the light of that Truth.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Religious, Reality, Light

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• Biblical wisdom means living a disciplined and prudent life in the fear of the Lord

  Kevin DeYoung

  Mean, Prudent, Lord

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• The goal of Bible translation is: be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.

  Leland Ryken

  Goal, Translations, Transparent

  "Leland Ryken Interview Differences in Bible Translations". Christian Publishing House Interview, christianpublishinghouse.co. October 10, 2016.

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• To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us. And one must see and bow to this before one can share the biblical faith in God's grace.

  J. I. Packer

  Grace, Favors, Bows

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.131, InterVarsity Press

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• Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.

  J. I. Packer

  Commitment, Simple, Missionary

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• The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Bible, Book, Conquer

  The Watchtower magazine, May 15, 1992.

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• If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.

  Ed Stetzer

  Culture, Demand, Worship

  FaceBook post by Ed Stetzer from Sep 02, 2009

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• The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor.  It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.

  Pope Francis

  Voice, Giving, Injustice And Oppression

  "Pope Tells Philippines Leaders To End Corruption, Hear Cries Of The Poor" by Philip Pullella and Manuel Mogato, www.businessinsider.com. January 15, 2015.

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• It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Bible, Mistake, Looks

  William Sloane Coffin (2012). “The Heart Is a Little to the Left: Essays on Public Morality”, p.62, UPNE

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• That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

  Thomas Paine

  Lying, Religion, Doe

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.336

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• No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Our Theatres In The Nineties". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1932.

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• The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

  Charles Stanley

  Patience, Years, People

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• The Bible is a wonderful book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the Truth. A sermon taken from the Bible can be a wonderful thing to hear. It is the truth about the truth about the truth. But it is not the truth. There have been many books written about the things contained in the Bible. I have written some myself. They can be quite wonderful to read. They are the truth about the truth about truth about the Truth. But they are NOT the Truth. Only Jesus Christ is the Truth. Sometimes the Truth can be drowned in a multitude of words.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Bible, Jesus, Book

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• One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Bible, Believe, Book

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.71, Bethany House

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