Amount Quote by David Plotz

I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.

— Alan Dershowitz

Had the followers of Jesus remained an obscure Jewish sect, most of you would not have learned to read, and the rest of you…

— Rodney Stark

The level of study that I was at, I was probably only about two or three years away from being ordained as a rabbi,…

— David Draiman

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and…

— Duke Ellington

(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If…

— Therese of Lisieux

I had a life experience that most of my - that none of my friends had. I remember I became everybody's rabbi. Everybody who…

— Jeff Ross

I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.

— Karen Armstrong

I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student.

— Frank Moore Cross

I'd had a strict religious education.

— Toyah Willcox

I knew there was only one place to go. I sank down into the center of my soul, grew still, and listened to the…

— Brennan Manning

I learned everything the hard way - like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I…

— SZA

God had to teach me a lot of things.

— Jeremy Camp