Bible Quote by Aleister Crowley

“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”

— Aleister Crowley

I take the Bible literally, but not seriously.

— Dana Gould

“I take the Bible too seriously to take it all literally.”

— Anonymous

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

— Karl Barth

Logically, taking Scripture seriously means being passionately concerned about interpreting it correctly and thus welcoming any evidence that exposes erroneous understandings of the biblical…

— Hugh Ross

People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.

— N. T. Wright

Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit…

— Sam Harris

Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious…

— Thomas Merton

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

— Ramakrishna

“Thou askest me to take things seriously? After what thou didst last night? When thou needest to kill a man and instead did what…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The Bible is not absurd for the people who wrote it; it becomes absurd when people in our day insist on taking it literally.…

— Robert Alley

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

— David Bowie