Bible Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

the Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.

— Letty M. Russell

“We need to be careful not to read the challenges of our own hearts, our personal assumptions, and our cultural assumptions about gender into…

— Winston T. Smith

“The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”

— Horace Greeley

“Now I see the Bible as it was written: the inspired word of God, but also a historical document preserving the ancient hegemony of…

— Willie Parker

My book in a nutshell is about the deleterious effects of patriarchy down through the ages for women and for men and how the…

— Carolyn Custis James

“Consecutive reading of biblical books forces everyone who wants to hear to put himself, or to allow himself to be found, where God has…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I think the Bible is hugely patriarchal. There are so many sexist comments and homophobic comments and comments that are not in keeping with…

— Alanis Morissette

“Reading Scripture as a coherent narrative rather seems to me to invite reflection on how all present human conditions, those of being “male” or…

— Preston Sprinkle

The Bible was written by fallible human beings.

— Richard Dawkins

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

— Antonin Artaud

Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force, and human brutality could bring to bear…

— R. A. Torrey

The Bible, and it alone, with nothing added to it nor taken away from it by man, is the sole and sufficient guide for…

— Michael Faraday