Biblical Quotes

396 Biblical quotes by 249 unique authors

The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the… — Jonathan Sacks
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. — Francis Schaeffer
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. — George Bernard Shaw
The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred… — John Shelby Spong
The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn… — Charles Stanley
I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people… — Charles Stanley
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When… — Desmond Tutu
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really… — E. O. Wilson
It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But… — Robert Winston
Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest… — Ravi Zacharias
Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated — C.S. Lewis
According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant… — Sam Harris
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. — Mark Twain
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. — Mark Twain
Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question. — Harold S. Kushner
Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence… — Eric Weiner
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because… — Soren Kierkegaard
But for this book we could not know right from wrong. — Abraham Lincoln
Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority… — Deepak Chopra
I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally. — Bill Maher
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom. — Horace Greeley
We are sometimes told that we are not a biblical church. We are a biblical church. This wonderful testament of the Old World, this great… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily,… — Richard Rohr

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