“Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Simple yet succinct, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals exposes the idols of modernity and provides the biblical… — Daniel L. Akin Copy Share Image
There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I wrote The Jesus Storybook Bible because I wanted children to know the Bible isn't mainly about you and what you're supposed… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
I agree that we should regard all books of the Bible as equally inspired - and important. But some come into sharp… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been… — Gerald Heaney Copy Share Image
“It is just here where we see the schizophrenia that inerrancy forces upon evangelicals: we are free to benefit from the advances… — Zondervan Publishing Copy Share Image
“God shoots down our ideas of human perfection. God's law demands that I be right inside and out. God's law demands that… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
“Be sweet to one another. Stay in this beauty and brawl against the world's power of pulling apart. Recall Old Testament terminology:… — William Giraldi Copy Share Image
“Rather than viewing Scripture as a book that merely teaches us how to believe and how to act, Jesus shows us that… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
“Reading has a kernel to it, and the mere shed is little worth. In prayer there is such a thing as praying… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“I charge you with a phrase from the gospel of John, Updike that is: Your only duty is to give the mundane… — John Blase Copy Share Image
I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament… — Bob Riley Copy Share Image
“The Bible’s was an unlikely, movie-set world alongside our world. Light-shot and translucent in the pallid Sunday-school watercolors on the walls, stormy… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
“In the biblical view of things, a deeper knowledge of God brings with it improvement in the other areas mentioned: purity, integrity,… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“A highly spiritual believer understands their foundation. They seek to be firmly planted in truth and pure doctrine. Knowing scripture and rightly… — Adam Houge Copy Share Image
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Yet the Bible teaches that the local church is the natural environment for discipling. In fact, it teaches that the local church… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“We don’t have the luxury of having the Urim and the Thummim,” Wilson said, in a nod to the stones that the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Bible admonishes us to live each day fully—not living in the past or the future. But God never intends for us… — Charles F. Stanley Copy Share Image
“To bring maximum glory to His Name the Lord is assembling an end times movement of weak, poor, helpless, and despised people… — Gospel Fellowships Copy Share Image
It is good to read the testimonies of Scripture; it is good to seek the Lord our God in them. As for… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“He is always careful to take account of the unity and harmony of Scripture teaching. His expositions are not therefore afflicted with… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Once, long ago, Jesus had called her name, breaking through the darkness of her oppression to set her free from the seven… — Sherri Gragg Copy Share Image
I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
“Third, this revelation of the purpose of God in Scripture should be sought primarily in its didactic rather than its descriptive parts.… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely. The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When I was reading the Bible, I came across the word 'meek.' It means to be humble. I asked God, I want… — Daniel Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I realized that the Bible had been written by white men. I knew that, according to many Christians, I was a descendant… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Jesus accepted the plenary [i.e., complete, extending to all its parts] inspiration of the Bible; when first approached by the devil to… — Charles Caldwell Ryrie Copy Share Image
“After Jesus showed up, the Old Testament basically became a way for Bible publishers to keep their word count up. Of course,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“More than a century later, Athanasius Kircher published his Arca Noë in 1675, with lavish illustrations depicting a rectangular ark of biblical… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“If we just preach general doctrine and ethics from Scripture, we are not preaching the gospel. The gospel is the good news… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image