Assuming Quote by Rachel Held Evans

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'

— Ray Charles

Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious…

— Thomas Merton

People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone…

— Muriel Spark

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

“Whenever we pick up the Bible, read it, put it down, and say, “That’s just what I thought,” we are probably in trouble.”

— Ellen F. Davis

“I'm not so sure reading Scripture will keep us from having to face trouble as much as it will focus our attention on our…

— Mona Hodgson

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

I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is…

— Northrop Frye

There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error,…

— Steve Allen

“The inconsistencies of Christian people, who while professing to believe their Bibles were yet content to live just as they would if there were…

— James Hudson Taylor

In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.

— Jonathan Clements

“First, the Bible has to be interpreted. When someone says they’re just doing what the Bible says to do, they didn’t greet you with…

— Rob Bell