Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures.… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us,… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“I love to read books. I love to read anything really, even the back of the cereal box. But there is nothing… — Rachel Wojnarowski Copy Share Image
“You know, the thing that makes the Bible the Bible is the fact that somebody had an interview with God! Somebody heard… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
“God has a global dream for his daughters and his sons, and it is bigger than our narrow interpretations or small box… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. -2 Timothy 1:7 — Bible Copy Share Image
W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
“No matter what the Bible says—and I'm not a fundamentalist—I just don't think that men were the first. I don't think that… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
What percentage should you give? I tell people to start with 10 percent because the Bible writers have a lot to say… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
“The Bible frequently uses symmetries and inversions. By such comparisons (parallels and contrasts) the unique aspects of reality begin to emerge. Comparing… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
“Now I see the Bible as it was written: the inspired word of God, but also a historical document preserving the ancient… — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
The big problem is not whether the Bible is true. The big problem is whether it is true in you. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
"Biblical theology" refers to something more precise than theology that is faithful to the Bible. It might be helpful to draw a… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
If you want an opinion concerning the Bible, why not take it from the lips of someone who has a real acquaintance… — William Henry Houghton Copy Share Image
“The one use of the Bible is to make us look at Jesus, that through him we might know his Father and… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“ELECTION (Gk. eklog, “choice,” a “picking out”). Bible Meaning. This word in the Scriptures has three distinct applications. (1) To the divine… — Merrill F. Unger Copy Share Image
I contend that no book figured more prominently than the Bible in the political thought of these patriots we call the founders. — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
“The biblical tale of Man's creation is, of course, the crux of the debate—at times bitter—between Creationists and Evolutionists and of the… — Zecharia Sitchin Copy Share Image
“The Bible tells us that suffering is the product of a broken and fallen world. But as believers, we are blessed to… — Steve Gladen Copy Share Image
“Do you have anything—a cross, a bible?” I asked him. “Course not! I’m a man of science.” “And if the shadow that… — John C Wright Copy Share Image
