Bible Quotes

Why do people believe what they read in the newspapers, but question what they read in the Bible?

~ Denise R. Solomon

And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them.-Revelations 20:9

~ A J.j. Graves

The irony of informing nearly naked people in a wilderness setting about the story of naked Adam and Eve eating the fruit of knowledge and inventing the fashion industry due to a sudden need for clothing to hide their shame is not lost on Williams.

~ Sarah Vowell

One difference between the Bible and the Constitution is that we can still talk to the author of the Bible to discover original intent.

~ Ron Brackin

Dynamic equivalence is a central concept in the translation theory, developed by Eugene A. Nida, which has been widely adopted by the United Bible Societies...Purporting to be an academically linguistic concept, it is in fact a sociocultural concept of communication. Its definition is essentially behavourist: determined by external forces, such as society--with strong pragmatist overtones--focusing on the reader rather than the writer. [M]ost twentieth-century American philosophical endeavours are predominantly pragmatist, dwelling in the shadows cast by William James and John Dewey.

~ J. Cammenga

I admire the way the Bible defies anybody who wants to nail it on a preferred meaning. There are so many ways to interpret the Bible as there are different opinions about what a certain passage or verse really means. So anybody can go there and read a meaning into (eigesis) whatever passage or verse he wants to suit his inclinations. Proof that the Bible is inspired? It caters for all sorts of people and views.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

~ Jesus Of Nazareth

Stop being fake and start being real. Start being real with the people around you, and start being real with God. Churches are not Broadway musicals where we can play the role of a Christian. You may think that you can play a role with people and get away with it, but I tell you today that you can't play that role with God. He sees through your plastic smiles and fake veneers.

~ Anna M. Aquino

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends (John 15:13)

~ John The Evangelist

Torah is not merely a collection of prohibitions, rigid strictures and boring observances. Rather, it is a narrative of the blessings and promises of God initially offered to one person and family, but through which the whole world will ultimately be blessed.

~ Walter C. Kaiser Jr.

Maturity is learning not to be run by your emotions. You control your emotions, they don't control you.

~ Anna M. Aquino

We've become very good in our churches today at faking our concern when really we couldn't care less about the people around us.

~ Anna M. Aquino

There is a lost and dying world out there. They need to see that the Church is different from their socially-segregated high schools. They need to see a 'family' operating as a team, not a bunch of cliques playing a role.

~ Anna M. Aquino

Having true compassion for people isn't about the words that are spoken and the actions that are done. Having true compassion is an attitude from the heart that can't be faked.

~ Anna M. Aquino

I believe that forgiveness is a processes. You might be able to release some offenses right away, but some offenses hurt deeper. You have to choose to let go and let God.

~ Anna M. Aquino

Selfishness is the root of all jealousy. When we are caught up thinking about ourselves, we can't think about anyone else.

~ Anna M. Aquino

If your temper is violent towards your brothers and sisters in the Lord, whose kingdom are you trying to build?

~ Anna M. Aquino

In today's society, Christians have a bad rap for things like holding picketing signs, screaming mantras of hate, and bombing abortion clinics. Somehow, I don't think that's showing love.

~ Anna M. Aquino

We used to live in a society where if we saw one person struggling in our boat, we'd all stop what we were doing and help that person. We'd all work together as a team. In today's world, we see that person struggling in the boat, feel glad it's not us, and pick them up and throw them in the water. We just don't really care about each other anymore.

~ Anna M. Aquino

In order to get some help in your love walk, all you have to do is ask God to let you see these people through His eyes.

~ Anna M. Aquino

One person does make a difference. Jesus was one person. He made a difference. Stop telling the Lord that the problem is too big. Stop looking at your problem. The more you look at the problem, the bigger it gets. God is bigger than that problem. Keep your eyes on God! Let God be bigger than your feats! You are one person, but you have the life of God on the inside of you. You can and will make a difference!

~ Anna M. Aquino

You can choose to be part of the solution or part of the problem.

~ Anna M. Aquino

When new believers come into the Church-when the young and innocent who are so full of life come in-we must treat them with honor and respect. We must be careful not to violate them in anyway. We are held accountable for their spiritual growth.

~ Anna M. Aquino

Gossip is multiplying like breeding rabbits in the Church today. We may pretend it isn't, but we're only lying to ourselves. We like to put pretty little bows on it in the Church today. We like saying that we're just passing on some information so that so-and-so can be prayed for by our other sister. We like to justify it in our heads, but sin is sin so I'm going to call it that.

~ Anna M. Aquino

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends (John 15:13).

~ John The Evangelist

God isn't looking for a bunch of actors. He is looking for people who are sold out to His plan and purpose.

~ Anna M. Aquino

Accuracy is not the measure of a true prophet. You will know the true prophets by their fruit.

~ Anna M. Aquino

The story of Balaam is also a good reminder that just because a person can flow in the gifts of the Holy Spirit doesn't mean they have character.

~ Anna M. Aquino

There were no oceans on Oasis, no large bodies of water, and presumably no fish. He wondered whether this would cause comprehension problems when it came to certain crucial fish-related Bible stories. There were so many of those: Jonah and the whale, the miracle of the loaves and the fishes, the Galilean disciples being fishermen, the whole ‘fishers of men’ analogy . . . the bit in Matthew 13 about the kingdom of heaven being like a net cast into the sea, gathering fish of every kind . . . Even in the opening chapter of Genesis, the first animals God made were sea creatures. How much of the Bible would he have to give up as untranslatable?

~ Michel Faber

The Abrahamic God is a disease masquerading as its own remedy which we desperately need to cure.

~ Priscilla Vogelbacher

Abortion is not allowedbecause apparently it is against the law of god.Yes, that butter-wouldn't-melt deitywho ordered babies to be slaughtered,killed all the first-born in EgyptAnd caused an entire human race to drown.From: Gesels van een imaginaire god(Scourges of an imaginary god)

~ A.j. Beirens

The holy word is story, and story is the holy word.

~ Yann Martel

The Abrahamic God’s greatest achievement was convincing us he is not the Devil.

~ Priscilla Vogelbacher

If any young man reads this Book aright, he becomes large-hearted. He cannot hold his soul within the narrow bound of his ribs, but his great heart looks out to see where it can scatter benefits.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Is it too bold to point out that there is nothing in the ten commandmentsabout protecting children against cruelty?Nothing against rape and nothing against slavery,and nothing agains genocide.Could this be because these crimesare positively recommendedin the rest of the bible?

~ A.j. Beirens

In order for us to become the Bride of Christ, we must stop being so divided. We must start coming together. We must be places of refuge for the nonbelievers and start being places they want to come. That doesn't mean that we will always agree on everything, but we must start pursuing unity.

~ Anna M. Aquino

The world sees the junk that is going on in the churches, and they don't want any part of it. If we really accept the Great Commission in Matt 28:19, we will put our differences aside, we'll stop asking, 'What is in it for me?' and we will genuinely start loving each other.

~ Anna M. Aquino

You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures' authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God.

~ Kevin Deyoung

Sometimes, we are unable to break free because we are held captive by divine assignment because in our problem God has given us a unique purpose.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Human half-truth logic, dates back to Adam and Eve, when he tried to deceive God with a truth, 'we knew we were naked so we hid', leaving God to understand that something was wrong with Adam's logic, because if Adam knew THE TRUTH, he would know that you can't hide from God.

~ Caesar J. B. Squitti