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Bible Quotes
"If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it."
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"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go."
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"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."
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"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."
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"Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means."
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"Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages."
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"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."
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"The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct."
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"How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt."
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"Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me."
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"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."
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"The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed."
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"Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?"
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"If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass."
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"The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world."
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"The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible."
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"There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself."
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"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."
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"Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it."
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"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."
42
"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."
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"The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed."
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"The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah's Witnesses."
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"We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David."
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"In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart."
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"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."
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"If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad."
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"The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible."
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"There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible."
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