--- title: "5 Higher Criticism Quotes by 5 authors" description: "Browse 5 Higher Criticism quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Higher Criticism sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d65/robin-r-meyers-28722_bible_a-deep-and-even-paranoid-suspicion-conti_386454.jpg" --- > [“...a deep and even paranoid suspicion continues to disparage higher criticism of the Bible, as if someone could publish a paper that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-r-meyers/a-deep-and-even-paranoid-suspicion-continues-to-disparage-higher/) [Robin R. Meyers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-r-meyers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d65/robin-r-meyers-28722_bible_a-deep-and-even-paranoid-suspicion-conti_386454.jpg) > [“If a school of critics were found prepared to pay divine honours to a certain person while doubting whether he was divine,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/if-a-school-of-critics-were-found-prepared-to-pay-divine-honours-to-a/) [G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/914/g-k-chesterton-224_religion_if-a-school-of-critics-were-found-prepar_1324767.jpg) > [It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanne-katherina-langer/it-is-the-historical-mind-rather-than-the-scientific-in-the-physicist/) [Susanne Katherina Langer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanne-katherina-langer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7f/susanne-katherina-langer-11754_age_it-is-the-historical-mind-rather-than-th_1913732.jpg) > [Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/hollywood-movies-of-the-fifties-like-the-ten-commandments-and-ben-hur/) [Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/444/camille-paglia-652_art_hollywood-movies-of-the-fifties-like-the_2203429.jpg) > [Biblical higher criticism is preserved in the particular enclave of academic Christian scholarship and is thought to be too unfruitful to share…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-shelby-spong/biblical-higher-criticism-is-preserved-in-the-particular-enclave-of/) [John Shelby Spong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-shelby-spong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31e/john-shelby-spong-1488_academic_biblical-higher-criticism-is-preserved-i_2318190.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/higher-criticism/#itemlist", "name": "Higher Criticism Quotes", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“...a deep and even paranoid suspicion continues to disparage higher criticism of the Bible, as if someone could publish a paper that would unravel God. 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