Bible Quote by Joseph Joubert Download Open image “The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry” — Joseph Joubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bible Iliad Inspirational Love Poetry Religion
Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare… The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In the Bible, God uses several different types of writing to convey his truth. There are narratives (often with commentary), preaching and exhortation (as… — J Stafford Wright Copy Share Image
If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little. But whatever… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
“I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my spiritual text. To me, the… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“Art that is based on scenes from the Bible is not better than art that is based on scenes from, say, Shakespeare or Homer… — John H. Walton Copy Share Image
The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. — Joseph Joubert 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… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“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… — Stephen Taylor Copy Share Image
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… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
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