Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reza Aslan

In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions.

Voltaire

Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

James Rollins

Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.

Jon Meacham

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.

Jon Meacham

Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason.

Johnny Damon

I don't understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game.

Norman Geisler

While many have doubted the accuracy of the Bible, time and continued research have consistently demonstrated that the Word of God is better informed than its critics. In fact, while thousands of finds from the ancient world support in broad outline and often in detail the biblical picture, not one incontrovertible find has ever contradicted the Bible.

Norman Lamm

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

John Gresham Machen

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it

Chipper Jones

He's been pretty much lights out since he got over here.

Skip Wilson

We're pretty solid, particularly in the lighter weights. And we have some experience. We should make another run at it.

Evelyn Fox

We totally refurnished and refurbished the lobby, lighting and furniture.

Loryn Kasten

It is lightly snowing right now, and were supposed to get a little more snow out of this storm.

Gary Payton

I didn't like him as light as he was. He should have been a little bulkier. That's when he's Shaq Diesel.

Frank Wood

He was the kind of guy, when things were down, he brightened them up. He was happy-go-lucky ... and that light shone around him all the time.

Richard Posner

The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations.

William Jennings Bryan

The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Virginia Woolf

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

William Tyndale

The Scriptures sprang out of God.

Mahatma Gandhi

My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

Mark Batterson

The primary reason we lose faith is because we forget the faithfulness of God. Maybe that's why the word 'remember' is repeated 250 times in Scripture.

R. C. Sproul

The truth of Scripture is meant not only to be studied-it’s meant also to be sung.

R. C. Sproul

The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.

John Donne

Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

Charles Spurgeon

The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.

Deborah Norville

The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.

Austin Farrer

The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.