Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. C. Watts

I view it in terms ... as I would the Bible for African-American politicians, when you look at the 1992 elections and the redistricting,

R. A. Torrey

Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force, and human brutality could bring to bear against this Book, and yet the Bible stands absolutely unshaken today. At times almost all the wise and great of the earth have been pitted against the Bible, and only an obscure few for it. Yet it has stood.

R. A. Torrey

The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinions of any man.

Noah Webster

Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.

John Grisham

judge not that ye be not judged

Oswald Chambers

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations

Patrick Henry

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

Patrick Henry

It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!

Muriel Spark

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

Mark Twain

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

R. C. Sproul

Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.

Barbara Ehrenreich

if you search the bible, you will find no reference to birth control or gay marriage, and you will not find a word, strangely, about stem cell research. I have searched.

Martin Buber

Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.

Thomas A. Edison

All bibles are man-made.

Josh McDowell

Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have,

Josh McDowell

My father's life was changed right before my eyes [when he trusted Christ]. It was like someone reached down and switched on a light inside him. He touched alcohol only once after that. He got the drink only as far as his lips and that was it-after forty years of drinking! He didn't need it any more. Fourteen months later, he died form complications of his alcoholism. But in that fourteen-month period over a hundred people in the area around my tiny hometown committed their lives to Jesus Christ because of the change they saw in the town drunk, my dad.

Justin Brown

If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going ?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

Tertullian

I revere the fullness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and creation. In the gospel moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His Word.

Joseph Heller

But how can one be warm alone?

Karen Kingsbury

Perfect love drives out fear

John Bunyan

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.

John F. Kennedy

Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.

James Madison

Religion [is] the basis and foundation of Government

James Madison

Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.

James Madison

We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.

John Hancock

...that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the whole Earth may be filled with his glory.

John Milton

The Saviour who flitted before the patriarchs through the fog of the old dispensation, and who spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, articulate but unseen, is the same Saviour who, on the open heights of the Gospel, and in the abundant daylight of this New Testament, speaks to us. Still all along it is the same Jesus, and that Bible is from beginning to end all of it, the word of Christ.

John Dickinson

The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

John Calvin

The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.

George A. Romero

I've gotten letters, but mostly from Bible-belt types who say, you must be Satan! They come right out and call me Satan and hope that I'm damned to hell.

Francois Fenelon

Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.