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
“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
“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
The Bible is full of dreadful things. There's a Psalm that says "Happy will you be when you take your enemy's children… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“I have underlined words and sentences in one of the Bibles that has always been my study Bible, but when I look… — Charles M. Schulz 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Someone once remarked that Pentecostalism is an experience looking for a theology, as if the movement lacked roots in biblical interpretation and… — Stanley M. Horton Copy Share Image
Old Testament, is really one of the most wickedest books you'll ever come across. God is an insecure, rage-filled hybrid of Bobby… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“But unlike Paul, his alternatives present him with a "double avoidance conflict"-neither is acceptable, for to hear the plain sense of both… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
I write for people who aren't Christians. I write for non, new, and nominal Christians who are curious about the Bible and… — Stephen M. Miller Copy Share Image
Just to make certain that I wasn't missing anything, as we see a lot of people running around talking about the basis… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“...a man is not in any difficulty in making a reply according to his faith ... to those who try to defame… — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
“The real protagonists of the Quartet are surely the parched and beautiful deserts of the biblical lands, with their oases and ruins,… — Edward Whittemore Copy Share Image
For a man solemnly to undertake the interpretation of any portion of Scripture without invocation of God, to be taught and instructed… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“4) Step Four Now that we are in the secret place meditating on the presence of God it is good to read… — Adam Houge Copy Share Image
I moved to Philadelphia to go to school at Eastern partly because I wanted to study the Bible and I also went… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“The Bible is the saga of Yahweh and Adam, the prodigal son and his ever gracious heavenly father; humanity in their rebellion… — Sandra L. Richter Copy Share Image
“There are many things that men and women ought to think about, and must think about, in private, that they would not… — R.A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Consider the wave of revulsion that floods the average person when he or she hears of the practice of human sacrifice by… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
The violent portraits of God in Scripture have become one of the biggest obstacles to believers coming to faith. When we can… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“Even though we have all had experiences of feeling distant from God, the Dark Night of the Senses is a particular experience… — R. Thomas Ashbrook Copy Share Image
“Take the sin of covetousness. There is more said in the Bible against it than against drunkenness. I must get it out… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
When the printing press was invented, it was inspired by the desire to make the Bible accessible to everyone. Today, people of… — Jay Moore Copy Share Image
“Defining systematic theology to include "what the whole Bible TEACHES US today" implies that application to life is a necessary part of… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
God of love and wisdom, a misunderstanding almost most led to war among the Israelites, help me to avoid jumping to conclusions… — Jos 22:13-20 Copy Share Image
... those who sit in the darkness of passions and whose minds are blinded by ignorance, or, rather, those who have not… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image