Academic Quote by Eugene H. Peterson

The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones.

— John Ruskin

One reason why people find applying the Bible to work so difficult is that the world of Scriptures seems so distant from our modern…

— David Kim

The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey…

— John Ruskin

Anybody who has read any biblical scholarship knows that every scholar struggles over completely intractable problems with the original texts, or what they have…

— Marilynne Robinson

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it…

— Soren Kierkegaard

It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but…

— John Milton

“No one needs to hold a PhD in biblical interpretation in order to understand the Bible correctly. God gave us His Word for all…

— Ron E. M. Clouzet

This book (the Bible) is not hard to understand. It's just hard to swallow.

— Steve Lawson

Many who read their Bibles make the great mistake of confining all their reading to certain portions of the Bible which they enjoy. In…

— Anonymous

“The challenges to the clarity of Scripture start out small. They sound humble and practical at first. But in the end, if we lose…

— Kevin DeYoung

“One reason Bible translation is a difficult task is that, in many cases, there is no direct one-to-one parallel between words in the original…

— Ron Rhodes

I think that the essential instruction of the Bible is very much topical. The sole problem is that with every change of historical setting,…

— Zygmunt Bauman