Biblical famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
But for this book we could not know right from wrong.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
-- Alan Hirsch -
The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we are all created equal and endowed by the Creator, God, with our unalienable rights.
-- Alan Keyes -
A close look at many churches will reveal that a central problem is the lack of biblical maturity among the men...
-- Albert Mohler -
The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity.
-- Albert Mohler -
There is no Christian Gospel if history simply unwinds into a meaningless puddle, if the cosmos simply escapes into a cataclysmic black hole, or if the universe finally dies of exhausted energy. Without belief in a biblical eschatology, there is no Christian hope. Without a sense of perfect moral judgment in the end, the human heart is homeless.
-- Albert Mohler -
Is it our task to force the biblical doctrine of God to answer to modern culture, or (is it our task) to address modern culture with the biblical doctrine of God? If modern culture-or any culture-establishes the baseline for the doctrine of God, such a doctrine will certainly bear little resemblance to the God of the Bible.
-- Albert Mohler -
This generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy.
-- Albert Mohler -
The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
-- Alexander Pope -
A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this--not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit.
-- Alistair Begg -
Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
I know her in the biblical senseand when I say that, I mean I don't believe a word she says.
-- Anthony Jeselnik -
The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching.
-- Archibald Thomas Robertson -
Because religious training means credulity training, churches should not be surprised to find that so many of their congregations accept astrology as readily as theology, or a channeled Atlantean priest as readily as a biblical prophet.
-- Barbara G. Walker -
It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize the forms and doctrines of Christianity...Truly has Darmesteter written: 'The Jew was the apostle of unbelief, and every revolt of mind originated with him.'
-- Bernard Lazare -
Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.
-- Beverly LaHaye -
If the biblical account of creation in Genesis isn't true, how can we trust the rest of the Bible?
-- Beverly LaHaye -
I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
-- Bill Maher -
The word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress.
-- Billy Graham -
On Nov. 6, the day before my 94th birthday, our nation will hold one of the most critical elections in my lifetime. We are at a crossroads and there are profound moral issues at stake. I strongly urge you to vote for candidates who support the biblical definition of marriage between a man and a woman, protect the sanctity of life and defend our religious freedoms. The Bible speaks clearly on these crucial issues. Please join me in praying for America, that we will turn our hearts back toward God.
-- Billy Graham -
The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
-- Billy Sunday -
The Bible itself is intolerant, and true followers of God's word should be as well.
-- Bob Jones III -
Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who have been laid waste by a consuming passion for Christ - passionate men and women for whom privilege and power are trivial compared to knowing and loving Jesus.
-- Brennan Manning -
What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus.
-- Brennan Manning -
Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.
-- Brian D. McLaren -
The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.
-- Bruce Barton -
Even Superman's name reflects his creators' biblical knowledge.
-- Bruce Feiler -
The biblical purpose of every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that they person who hears you will receive grace.
-- C. J. Mahaney -
Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated
-- C. S. Lewis -
Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.
-- C.J. Sansom -
We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.
-- Cal Thomas -
We Americans are not God's covenant people. America has, in any event, no biblical guarantee of perpetuity.
-- Carl F. H. Henry -
A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions.
-- Carl Sagan -
A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the discussion is complicated by the fact that many eminent servants of humanity have been nominal Christians, of one or other of the sects. My allegation will be that the special services rendered to human progress by these exceptional men have not been in consequence of their adhesion to Christianity, but in spite of it, and that the specific points of advantage to human kind have been in ratio of their direct opposition to precise Biblical enactments.
-- Charles Bradlaugh -
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
-- Charles Dickens -
A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.
-- Charles Stanley -
I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.
-- Charles Stanley -
Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.
-- Charlie Campbell -
What is an angel? The two words that come closest to a true biblical answer are "manifestation" and "servant".
-- Charlie W Shedd -
The biblical model is that God deliberately chooses imperfect vessels - those who have been wounded, those with physical or emotional limitations. Then he prepares them to serve and sends them out with their weakness still evident, so that his strength can be made perfect in that weakness.
-- Christine Caine -
Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.
-- Conrad Black -
This story is true. Of course, there are many lies therein and most of it did not happen, but it's all true. In that sense it is deeply religious, perhaps even biblical.
-- Craig Ferguson -
I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.
-- Criss Jami -
[Biblical counseling] Must insist that the image of God is central to developing a solid view of personality; that our sinfulness, not how we've been sinned against, is our biggest problem; that forgiveness, not wholeness, is our greatest need; that repentance, not insight, is the dynamic in all real change.
-- Dan B. Allender -
You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say "God is love" they will claim that you are taking things out of context!
-- Dan Barker -
Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of the Christ just might be the best short introduction to Biblical scholarship yet.
-- David Bergland -
The Christian goal for the world is the universal development of Biblical theocratic republics, in which every area of life is redeemed and placed under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and the rule of God's law.
-- David Chilton -
I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.
-- David Mitchell -
The modern-day gospel says, 'God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. Therefore, follow these steps, and you can be saved.' Meanwhile, the biblical gospel says, 'You are an enemy of God, dead in your sin, & in your present state of rebellion, you are not even able to see that you need life, much less to cause yourself to come to life. Therefore, you are radically dependent on God to do something in your life that you could never do.
-- David Platt -
In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.
-- David Platt -
We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.
-- David Platt -
Biblical backing for Mormon behavior is easy to find, although Mark Twain is reported to have denied its legitimacy to a Mormon. The Mormon claimed polygamy was perfectly moral and he defied Twain to cite any passage of Scripture which forbade it. 'Well,' said Twain, 'how about that passage that tells us no man can serve two masters at the same time?'
-- Dennis McKinsey -
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.
-- Desmond Tutu -
The doctrine of hell does not stand alone as a kind of ancient Christian horror story. Rather, hell is inseparable from three other interrelated biblical truths: human sin, God's holiness, and the cross of Christ.
-- Douglas Groothuis -
The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.
-- Dwight L. Moody -
Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.
-- Dwight L. Moody -
If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.
-- Ed Stetzer -
Fear in the biblical sense... includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.
-- Edward T Welch -
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.
-- Elayne Boosler -
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
My understanding of God is an experience. God is. That's all I know. In the Biblical tradition, it would be expressed as, "Be still and know that I am God." God is the "I am" energy. Something huge is at play here - cosmic creativity, consciousness, God, whatever you want to call it. I do believe that it's a guided ride. We're on a guided tour of the universe.
-- Elizabeth Lesser -
What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It's biblical, it's huge. It's so personal.
-- Emilio Estevez -
At the conscious approach of death, faith in the Biblical Religion, with its God and Christ and written Revelation, never weakens, but almost or quite always strengthens, and very often advances to a splendid assurance; while unbelief under the same circumstances never strengthens, but almost or quite always weakens and falters, and very often fails utterly.
-- Enoch Fitch Burr -
Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.
-- Eric Weiner -
There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense
-- Errol Flynn -
To make sure our convictions, views, and assumptions about our Creator stay based on biblical truth and not on popular consensus, we must continually check what we believe against the Scriptures.
-- Erwin W. Lutzer -
Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?
-- Eugene H. Peterson -
Don’t believe something just because you want to, and don’t embrace an idea just because you’ve always believed it. Believe what is biblical. Test all your assumptions against the precious words God gave us in the Bible.
-- Francis Chan -
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
-- Francis Schaeffer -
Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has led to democracy, human rights, and the protection of the environment. Humanists make no apologies for this. Humanists twist no biblical doctrine to justify such actions.
-- Fred Edwords -
We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins) of publicans and sinners. This judgment, which separated knowledge of man from self-knowledge, was as nothing in God’s eyes. The Jew did not have a better understanding because he was able to judge the heathen. In the sphere of abstract morality this could possibly be said, but this is not Biblical morality - O man, who judgest others!
-- G. C. Berkouwer -
Here is a biblical and churchly spirituality so needed today as an alternative to the new age nostrums that crowd the mall bookstore shelves.
-- Gabriel Fackre -
...nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called into question (much less condemned) upon the testimony of biblical passages.
-- Galileo Galilei -
The stranger in ancient Israel did not serve as a judge, although he received all the benefits of living in the land. The political question is this: By what biblical standard is the pagan to be granted the right to bring political sanctions against God's people? We recognize that unbelievers are not to vote in Church elections. Why should they be allowed to vote in civil elections in a covenanted Christian nation? Which judicial standards will they impose? By what other standard than the Bible?
-- Gary North -
The basis for building a Christian society is evangelism and missions that lead to a widespread Christian revival, so that the great mass of earth's inhabitants will place themselves under Christ's protection, and then voluntarily use his covenantal laws for self-government. Christian reconstruction begins with personal conversion to Christ and self-government under God's law; then it spreads to others through revival; and only later does it bring comprehensive changes in civil law, when the vast majority of voters voluntarily agree to live under biblical blueprints.
-- Gary North -
Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.
-- Gary North -
When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if any, she did believe in is hard to pinpoint.
-- Gary Sloan -
Biblical Theology...is that part of Exegetical Theology which deals with the revelation of God in its historic continuity...Biblical Theology, rightly defined, is nothing else than the exhibition of the organic progress of supernatural revelation in its historic continuity and multiformity.
-- Geerhardus Vos -
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
-- George McGovern -
The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in earlier biblical times, was the recording of history as we understand it a strong point among the Jews.
-- Geza Vermes -
In biblical times, I stoned people to death. Now they are repaying me by hurling pucks at my head.
-- Gilles Gratton -
We are sometimes told that we are not a biblical church. We are a biblical church. This wonderful testament of the Old World, this great and good Holy Bible is one of our standard works. We teach from it. We bear testimony of it. We read from it. It strengthens our testimony. And we add to that this great second witness, the Book of Mormon, the testament of the New World, for as the Bible says, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall [all things] be established" (2 Cor. 13:1)
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.
-- Grandma Moses -
The Christian community continues to exist because the conclusions of the critical study of the Bible are largely withheld from them.
-- Hans Conzelmann -
Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.
-- Harold S. Kushner -
He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil.
-- Hayim Nahman Bialik -
One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.
-- Hedy Lamarr -
Some would define a servant like this: 'A servant is one who finds out what his master wants him to do, and then he does it.' The human concept of a servant is that a servant goes to the master and says, 'Master, what do you want me to do?' The master tells him, and the servant goes off BY HIMSELF and does it. That is not the biblical concept of a servant of God. Being a servant of God is different from being a servant of a human master. A servant of a human master works FOR his master. God, however, works THROUGH His servants.
-- Henry Blackaby -
The stars associated with the solar system, such as the planets and asteroids (and it should be remembered that the term star in Biblical usage applies to any heavenly body other than the sun and moon) would be particularly likely to be involved, in the view of the heavy concentration of angels, both bad and evil, around the planet Earth.
-- Henry M. Morris -
My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting… but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me.
-- Henry Ossawa Tanner -
Biblical counseling is listening to a person long enough until you hear a violation of scripture.
-- Henry R Brandt -
Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and guide would be gone; the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
-- Horace Greeley -
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
-- Hosea Ballou -
I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.
-- Howard Barker
