Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wesley

This Book had to be written by one of three people: good men, bad men or God. It couldn't have been written by good men because they said it was inspired by the revelation of God. Good men don't lie and deceive. It couldn't have been written by bad men because bad men would not write something that would condemn themselves. It leaves only one conclusion. It was given by divine inspiration of God.

John Wesley

Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible.

John Wesley

I want to know one thing, the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condescended to teach the way; for this end He came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. Give me that book! At any price give me the Book of God!

John the Apostle

Love one another as I have loved you.

John Tillotson

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

John Robinson

The Holy Scriptures are that divine instrument by which we are taught what to believe, concerning God, ourselves, and all things, and how to please God unto eternal life.

John Stott

We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead.

Martin Luther

In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well.

Martin Luther

Scripture is the manger in which we find the Christ child.

Martin Luther

I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!

Martin Luther

It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!

Moses

... Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for you are with me...Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

And a long tall woman will make a preacher lay his Bible down - But a big, fat mama will make a mule kick his stall down

Edward de Bono

Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

Edith Hamilton

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

Laurence Sterne

To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of right and wrong:MThe first of these will comprehend the duties of religion;Mthe second, those of morality, which are so inseparably connected together, that you cannot divide these two tableswithout breaking and mutually destroying them both.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity

John Brown

So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves.

John Adams

As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him.

John Adams

I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.

John Adams

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.

John Adams

The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

John Adams

The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere.

John Adams

The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.

John Adams

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Matthew McConaughey

There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew McConaughey

Man shall not live by bread alone.

Matthew McConaughey

Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Matthew McConaughey

The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Jonathan Swift

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.

Napoleon Bonaparte

All systems of morality are fine. The Gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few commonplace sentences put in bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

Norman Geisler

In my experience when critics raise these objections, they invariably violate one of seventeen principles for interpreting the Scriptures....For example, assuming the unexplained is unexplainable....failing to understand the context of the passage....assuming a partial report is a false report...neglecting to interpret difficult passages in light of clear ones; basing a teaching on an obscure passage; forgetting that the Bible uses nontechnical, everyday language; failing to remember the Bible uses different literary devices...