Bible Quotes

Growing up loving the Bible made me apt to love other books. I don't love them in the same way I love the Bible, but a lesser love came easily. The splendor of sunlight does not take away

~ John Mark Reynolds

The Bible explains that Satan is real, nurses a serious grudge and has impressive power. But having been created, he has limitations. He can never be equal to God in anything.--Kristine McGuire, An Insider's Guide to Spiritual Warfare, Chapter 3, Know Your Enemy.

~ Kristine Mcguire

The fact that our traditional method of extracting doctrine from Scripture does not work well on narrative does not mean that Bible stories do not send clear messages. Instead, it suggests that the way we apply our traditional method of interpretation is inadequate because we are ignoring too much of God’s Word.

~ Craig S. Keener

Obedience to God’s Word begins by being determined to make no compromise with His ways. It requires a clear understanding that God’s rules and laws are for your benefit, and for you to do all you can to live by them.

~ Stormie Omartian

Using only nonnarrative portions of the Bible to interpret narrative is not only disrespectful to the narrative portions but also suggests a misguided approach to nonnarrative parts of the Bible.

~ Craig S. Keener

Faith is believing beyond the power of reason, when they're all against you. To one who has faith, no explanation is possible. To one without faith, evidence is necessary.

~ Esteban Urayoán

Study the bible thoroughly before a pseudo-holy criminal mislead you!

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You cannot call yourself a Christian and only accept the less harsher parts of the bible, being a Christian in Christ is accepting it all.

~ Pauline Seaport

Therefore from one man (Abraham) ... were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude -- innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

~ Hebrews 11 12

People think the Bible is too complicated for the average person to understand. People tend to be wrong. It's too complicated for the unsaved person, yes, it's foolishness to him. But for those who are in Christ, it's a magnificent journey of simplicity. Depth, richness, but simplicity. It's the fact that the natural man can't believe that life with Christ is so simple that cause the great complexity argument. Stop, take a breath, and believe that it's as simple as it appears.

~ Alan De Jager

The Bible is an ocean of instruction and wisdom. Dip daily into the vast pool to discover its truths.

~ Elizabeth George

I don’t know449that much about the Bible, other than it waswritten thousands of years ago, which dilutesits relevance. However, I know its faithfulfollowers tend to cherry-pick verses to suittheir needs, the same way they cherry-pickwords or scenes from other books to labelobscene.

~ Ellen Hopkins

The more time you spend with God, the more you will resemble Him.

~ Elizabeth George

True biblical love is sacrificing, purifying, nurturing, and enduring.

~ Elizabeth George

You'd think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn't. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is. He just lets the characters and conflict hang in the air like smoke.

~ Donald Miller

Their Bibles had become an idol before God. That the cross, as a symbol, was an idol, even their own self-image was an idol before God.

~ Trevor D. Richardson

Religion is the most powerful entity on earth. A phenomenon that has conscripted millions to give or sacrifice their lives without so much as a minuscule query about their chosen beliefs or particular ideology. And today thousands of years on despite the huge advent, discovery and the advance of science forensic or otherwise, millions are still prepared and equipped to fall or kill in the name of their God, their Holy Scriptures, their messengers, their prophets and their faith’.

~ Cal Sarwar

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

~ J.i. Packer

Opposition should never keep you from the work God has called you to do.

~ Jim George

Scattered across the Roman Empire, it was only natural for the gospel writers to distance themselves from the Jewish independence movement by erasing, as much as possible, any hint of radicalism or violence, revolution or zealotry, from the story of Jesus, and to adapt Jesus's words and actions to the new political situation in which they found themselves.

~ Reza Aslan

Everyone needs to calm down! Okay, you got a weird cookie. So what? I don’t mean to swat your ego here, buddy, but this smacks a little narcissistic for me. God is not trying to communicate to you through a cookie. It doesn’t work that way. God’s not all Jack-and-the-magic-beans and tooth-beneath-the pillow voodoo. You don’t just close your eyes, flap open your Bible, and slam a steak knife into a verse. It’s that sort of thinking that leads to witch trials and Senate probes.

~ Geoffrey Wood

The Bible is the one book we’ve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.

~ Geoffrey Wood

With the current technology, I now agree with non-believers. We should no longer say the Bible is life's road-map, the Bible is life's GPS!

~ Ibrahim Emile

This is an extremely difficult matter for modern readers of the gospels to grasp, but Luke never meant for his story about Jesus's birth at Bethlehem to be understood as historical fact. Luke would have had no idea what we in the modern world even mean when we say the word history. The notion of history as a critical analysis of observable and verifiable events in the past is a product of the modern age; it would have been an altogether foreign concept to the gospel writers for whom history was not a matter of uncovering facts, but of revealing truths.

~ Reza Aslan

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

~ Isaiah 54 17 Kjv

No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn.

~ Anonymous

God’s various blessings are not always obvious.

~ Jim George

The heart must be renewed by divine grace, or it will be in vain to seek for purity of life. He who attempts to build up a noble, virtuous character independent of the grace of Christ is building his house upon the shifting sand.

~ Ellen G. White

Using a combination of history, common sense, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, every leader can generally predict the way things will go.

~ Dag Heward-Mills

I am most interested in encouraging Christians to think and read well. Christians, of all people, should reflect the mind of their Maker. Learning to read well is a step toward loving God with your mind. It is a leap toward thinking God’s thoughts after Him.

~ James W. Sire

The Bible is the best motivational book.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Faith is not a one-time act. It’s a way of life.

~ Jim George

We are sheep surrounded by green pastures, but we will not eat. We seem to have no appetite for the Word of God.

~ James M. Rasbeary

Your willingness to serve God is as important as your service to God.

~ Jim George

Ultimately, if the Lord doesn’t build the house (or the Sunday school class, or the church, or the family, or the business, or the relationship, or ), we are laboring in vain anyway (Psalm 127:1). We release the burden of stress when we release the responsibilities for the outcome to the Lord.

~ Paul Chappell

Without God's Word as a lens, the world warps.

~ Ann Voskamp

So, at the turn of the third millennium, you have chosen to base your principles on a collection of contradictory texts – written by various men years after the death of your man Jesus – that have been edited and selected out of hundreds of other documents, and bound together into one hotchpotch volume, under the orders of a political primate, Pope Damasus. And, you’re still content to condemn the living love I feel here and now, because of that dusty accident of bad editing? Why?

~ Cliff James

A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won’t want to gossip.

~ Elizabeth George

So many commands in the Bible require obedience without us experiencing any conviction to obey them. That is when our faith is truly tested.

~ Alan De Jager

When you study God’s Word and incorporate His wisdom and principles into your daily life, your whole perspective will change.

~ Elizabeth George