“Aging and the prospect of dying by no means enhance the attractiveness of fictitious comforts to come in paradise, or the veracity… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
“It was The Gospel From Outer Space, by Kilgore Trout. It was about a visitor from outer space... [who] made a serious… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We’re accustomed to thinking about love as an emotion or an experience that happens to us, but the Bible teaches us that… — Winston T. Smith Copy Share Image
The bible teaches that a father may sell his daughter for a slave, that he may sacrifice her purity to a mob,… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
“If anyone is going to see the gospel as true and good, satanic blindness and natural deadness must be overcome by the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“His preaching isn’t one of concepts, but of experience, and the messages are often those that have been passed down through tradition… — Ora-Jay Eash Copy Share Image
“Scripture likewise seems to point out this method, Surely the Isles shall wait for me; the ships of Tarshish first, to bring… — William Carey Copy Share Image
The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures..… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“We must make the intellectual world safe for democracy. But in the conditions of modern mental anarchy, neither that nor any other… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I have furnished myself with a Bible and Testament; and I can say also that I have found them to be much… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
God must open the eyes of our understanding before we can truly know and rightly interpret His truth. His truth is available… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
“whatever are the difficulties in believing that the Old and New Testaments proceed from, or record the acts of, a perfectly wise… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“So, at the turn of the third millennium, you have chosen to base your principles on a collection of contradictory texts –… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost.… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Benefits of Being in God’s Family The moment you were spiritually born into God’s family, you were given some astounding birthday gifts:… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“The Bible tells the story of the Hebrew prophet Daniel, who was able to read mysterious words that appeared on the wall… — Richard A. Clarke Copy Share Image
The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“The writings which make up the New Testament were none of them written to be a primary and sufficient source of information… — Philip Hughes Copy Share Image
“The Incas were right to worship the sun, Father. God is fire. Combustion is the one inarguable blessing. A tree, oil, coal,… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“True peace—the kind the Bible talks about—has got to be more than the absence of hostility. It’s got to be the presence… — Richard Doster Copy Share Image
Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not… — Micah 7:18-19 Copy Share Image
The Bible says that the earth is immovable. It cannot be moved. So now is your chance to prove your point. Run… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn't in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Charis herself gave up Christianity a long time ago. For one thing, the Bible is full of meat: animals being sacrificed, lambs,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I began to read [Bible] as a critic, an in-house critic. So I got to a place where when I got to… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Scripture makes it clear that these responses are not forced upon us by the pressures of the situation. What I do comes… — Timothy S. Lane Copy Share Image
What distinguishes the arid ages from the period of the Reformation, when nations were moved as they had not been since Paul… — Gordon Clark Copy Share Image
“In the arena of adversity, the Scriptures teach us three essential truths about God—truths we must believe if we are to trust… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Whether the Bible is Law or Gospel depends on the spiritual condition of the one hearing it. If someone is regenerate and… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“The Bible is a work of art. Were it not art, were it simply an instruction manual, it would not satisfy or… — Willis Barnstone Copy Share Image
I walked away with a renewed passion for Scripture and I was powerfully reminded that God's Word really is a lamp to… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
It is certain that the truth of the Christian faith becomes more evident the more the faith itself is known. Therefore, the… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
The US is a country [in which] eighty percent of the population thinks the Bible was written by god. About half think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The Middle Ages are generally reckoned to have ended at least a century before America’s founding. By the 1620s in the Old… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
![“It was The Gospel From Outer Space, by Kilgore Trout. It was about a visitor from outer space... [who] made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel. He concluded that at least part of the trouble was slipshod storytelling in the New…” quote by Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/93d/kurt-vonnegut-41_bible_it-was-the-gospel-from-outer-space-by-ki_1230081.jpg)
![“If anyone is going to see the gospel as true and good, satanic blindness and natural deadness must be overcome by the power of God. This is why the Bible says that even though the gospel foolishness to many, yet 'to those who are called...Christ [is] the power of God and the wisdom of God' (1…” quote by John Piper](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c7e/john-piper-255_bible_if-anyone-is-going-to-see-the-gospel-as_3099976.png)
![“I began to read [Bible] as a critic, an in-house critic. So I got to a place where when I got to the university, I just couldn't reconcile that book and some of its points of view with stuff I was learning in my academic career. And so then you have a choice: either you give up your academic…” quote by John Shelby Spong](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c08/john-shelby-spong-1488_academic_i-began-to-read-bible-as-a-critic-an-in_1438471.jpg)
![“The US is a country [in which] eighty percent of the population thinks the Bible was written by god. About half think every word is literally true. So it's had to appeal to that - and to the nativist population, the people that are frightened, have always been... It's a very frightened country and…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8e1/noam-chomsky-42_appeals_the-us-is-a-country-in-which-eighty-perc_2767065.jpg)
