Famous Quotes & Sayings

That'll be the day. This is just organized torture, that's what it is, like Vacation Bible School. And Vacation Bible School would be better than this!

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,

Abel Ferrara

Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

Alan Arkin

People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that people go to see. I think it's that simple. I promise you if people were lining up around the block to see a Bible movie, they'd make Bible movies from now to the end of time.

Common

Money is the root of all evil.

We are excited at the prospect of reading the entire Bible and having someone explain it to us.

Robert H. Schuller

There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view is, it's called plenary inspiration, which holds that all religious truth taught in the Bible is true from God, but each word is not necessarily interpreted literally.

Bryce Courtenay

The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.

Daniel Webster

I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; for I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true meaning in any such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it.

Daniel Webster

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

This weekend he's been talking about how our lives are transformed by spiritual disciplines, through prayer and Bible study and meditation and spending quiet time daily with God.

We thought this was a perfect fit. The project seemed to be more on a personal level since the Sojourner Center is for abused women and we are a women's Bible study group.

Francine Rivers

I start work by spending time in personal Bible study. Because my projects center on a question in my own faith walk, I find Bible study essential. And God gives me scriptures daily that speak to the question with which I'm struggling.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

Robert Ingersoll

The real oppressor, enslaver, and corrupter of the people is the Bible

We don't need to grow any more. It's not about the numbers at all. It's about the message of the Bible going forth.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.

Stephen Baldwin

We can't allow, in my perception, our traditions, which in the Bible are really looked down upon, to stop, literally, the potential of the gospel reaching the youth of America.

Harry S Truman

This is a Christian nation.

Harry S Truman

This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.

Harry S Truman

The fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.

J. K. Rowling

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

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!

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.

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Jim Butcher

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

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.

Jay Moore

When the printing press was invented, it was inspired by the desire to make the Bible accessible to everyone. Today, people of passion who want to share their faith and provide quality entertainment for families are working in one of the most powerful media of our time--the interactive video game.