Bible Quote by Graham Greene Download Open image “It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.” — Graham Greene ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bible People Pick and choose Picks Pity
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 Copy Share Image
Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
Most Christians have more Bibles than they know what to do with, but have little understanding of what is in them. — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works. — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
“Whoever wishes to learn, must begin with the knowledge of the Holy Bible.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
You can never really know the scriptures until you're willing to be changed by them. — Brother Yun Copy Share Image
The Bible isn't a choose your own adventure book where everyone can just make up their own meaning. — Benjamin L. Corey Copy Share Image
The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The Bible is not an option, it is a necessity. You cannot grow spiritually strong without it. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery. — Charles Chilton Moore Copy Share Image
You can't just decide to take the subject matter of The Bible and figure out you can just change what you want. I mean,… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
“God hates Hell. He hates the idea of people going there. He hates it so much that He was willing to take on human… — Evan Minton Copy Share Image
“The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose, Sergeant,’ Anthony Payne replied. ‘That is from The Merchant of Venice, but it holds great truth.” — Michael Arnold Copy Share Image
When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell… — Lee Greenwood Copy Share Image
“Scripture also teaches that human beings are morally responsible creatures” — Robert A. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote: "I had enjoyed much peace there in the absence of every comfort, even of such as are now enjoyed in jail. I used to say that there were four privations in my situation - fire, water, earth and air. No fire… — Stephen Taylor Copy Share
O Word of God incarnate . . . It is the golden casket Where gems of truth are stored; It is the heaven-drawn picture… — Walsham How Copy Share Image
Every plant which my heavenly father has not planted with be uprooted — Jesus Christ Copy Share Image
Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like it. In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share
