Biblical Quotes - Page 15

• The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.

  B. C. Forbes

  Humble, Responsibility, Cities

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.120, Lulu.com

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• In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the dark. So faith and reason cooperate on a biblical view of faith. They are not intrinsically hostile.

  J.P. Moreland

  Believe, Dark, Views

  J. P. Moreland, William Lane Craig (2009). “Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview”, p.18, InterVarsity Press

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• I don't understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game.

  Johnny Damon

  Games, People, Criticize

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• The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.

  Jon Meacham

  Support, Slavery, Definitions

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• Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.

  Beverly LaHaye

  Christian, Government, America

  "Watch the Right: The Amazing Rise of Beverly LaHaye". Ms. magazine, February 1987.

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• Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.

  Josh McDowell

  Historical, Reliability, Information

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• Parents provoke their children to anger by not practicing biblical love, not considering their children as more important than themselves, and not dying to self to become a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ.

  John C. Broger

  Jesus, Children, Self

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• Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has led to democracy, human rights, and the protection of the environment. Humanists make no apologies for this. Humanists twist no biblical doctrine to justify such actions.

  Fred Edwords

  Religious, Apology, Rights

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• The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art.

  James Jordan

  Art, Philosophy, Symbolism

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• Biblical convictions are essential for spiritual growth and maturity. What is ironic today is that people often have strong convictions about weak issues (football, fashion, etc.) while having weak convictions about major issues (what is right and what is wrong).

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Football, Spiritual

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• There is no area of life that does not have a biblical worldview attached to it.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Doe, Vote

  Anthony Evans, Tony Evans (2006). “The Kingdom Agenda: What a Way to Live!”, p.422, Moody Publishers

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• Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.

  David Platt

  Heart, Mind, Transformation

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.19, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic.

  Tony Campolo

  Community, African American, Vote

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• Gratitude is a lifestyle.  A hard-fought, grace-infused, biblical lifestyle.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Gratitude, Grace, Lifestyle

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2009). “Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy”, p.29, Moody Publishers

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• I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English language - and it is not because I am a biblical scholar, or because of any religious faith, but because I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Love, Religious, Book

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• If we think of the Holy Spirit only as an impersonal power or influence, then our thought will constantly be, how can I get hold of and use the Holy Spirit; but if we think of Him in the biblical way as a divine Person, infinitely wise, infinitely holy, infinitely tender, then our thought will constantly be, 'How can the Holy Spirit get hold of and use me?'

  R. A. Torrey

  Wise, Thinking, Use

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• Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason.

  Jon Meacham

  Light, Scripture, Tradition

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• My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text.

  Leland Ryken

  Done, Way, Neglect

  Leland Ryken (1984). “How to Read the Bible as Literature”, p.12, Zondervan

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• I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

  N. T. Wright

  Writing, Discipline, Study

  "N.T. Wright: On Jesus and Writing". Interview with Marcia Z. Nelson, www.publishersweekly.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Yeah, I have been because, generally speaking, to we Biblical literalists, the media is very hostile.

  Tim LaHaye

  Media, Yeah, Has Beens

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• Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Play, People, Events

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• When my sons arrived in the family, their legal status was not ambiguous at all. They were our kids. But their wants and affections were still atrophied by a year in the orphanage. They didn't know that flies on their faces were bad. They didn't know that a strange man feeding them their first scary gulps of solid food wasn't a torturer. Life in the cribs alone must have seemed to them like freedom. That's what I was missing about the biblical doctrine of adoption. Sure it's glorious in the long run. But it sure seems like hell in the short run.

  Russell D. Moore

  Running, Fear, Kids

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• If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.'

  Vince Gilligan

  Karma, Girlfriend, Hate

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• It is inaccurate to think the gospel is what saves non-Christians, and then Christians mature by trying hard to live according to biblical principles. It is more accurate to say that we are saved by believing the gospel, and then we are transformed in every part of our minds, hearts, and lives by believing the gospel more and more deeply as life goes on.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Believe, Heart

  "Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City".

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• Our walk by faith, if it is true biblical faith, will get us in trouble.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Trouble, Walk By Faith, Walks

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