Bible Quotes
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"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."
"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
"Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do."
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."
"The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies."
"One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad."
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
"The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this."
"I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)"
"If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself."
"I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally."
"To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries"
"My soul doth magnify the Lord,And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour."
"I want to read the employment section of the Bible. I think it’s simply called Job."
"The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God."
"Rejection is an opportunity for your selection."
"And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus."
"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since."
"I want to write a book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It will be exactly the same length as the Bible."
"You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world.(Matthew 5:14, The Message)"
"When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it."
"If God is for us, who can be against us?"
"In the heartfelt mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those sitting in darkness, in the shadow of death, to guide our feet to the way of peace."
"With faith the size of a mustard seed, you can indeed move a mountain, but you can hardly be expected to garnish your sandwich."
"In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart."
"We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book."
"Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author."
"Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian."
"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)"
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
"By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it."
"It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom."
"I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega."
"Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: For wither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God."
"Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer."
"But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed."
"We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing."
"The mind of God is greater than all the minds of men, so let all men leave the gospel just as God has delivered it unto us."
"Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you."
"For the wages of sin is Death, but the gift of God is everlasting Life in Christ Jesus or LORD."
"The Bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs."
"By Hays' reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a human body with a sword, a common way to kill people in biblical times, is acceptable. Apparently human bodies were designed to be penetrated by metal implements, but not by flesh."
"The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals."
"I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile."
"O Lord, you have searched me and you know me."
"Lady Wisdom will be your close friend; and Brother Knowledge will be your pleasant companion."
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