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Bible Quotes


"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go."


"Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows."


"I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible."


"If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it."


"How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt."


"Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me."


"The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world."


"There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself."


"Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?"


"The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context."



"The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed."


"Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible."


"I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible."


"But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation."


"The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed."


"If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad."


"The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct."


"Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine."


"The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter."


"There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible."


"The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah's Witnesses."


"We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible."


"Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was."


"If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible."


"The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares."



"The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show."


"Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it."


"The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is."


"I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me."


"Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages."


"The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed."


"The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible."


"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that."


"The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that."


"Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means."
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