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- Nov 07, 2020
Bible Quotes
Reflections rooted in scripture.
Some quotes on this page recall personal history with the Bible, like early Sunday school lessons at a Baptist church, alongside a more academic curiosity about how sin is actually defined in scripture. For related reading, see God.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was seven or eight, I was bought a fantastic book called 'The Movie Treasury of Horror Movies' by Alan G. Frank; it became my bible. It's packed full of the most amazing photos and is still fantastic to look at.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
- Floor
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have to filibuster on the Senate floor, I'll even read the King James Bible until the wall is funded.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man I lived with is a Christian, so I would talk to him about it. What would this person do in the Bible? What's the story around this person? Generally, when people talk about characters in the Bible, there's one thing they're known for, like Job.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
We started the family Bible after slavery was abolished. My great-grandmother remembered the Bible being started, which meant that she was a slave as a young girl. When she died, the Bible was at least 105 years old, so she must have been nearly 115 years old. Her daughter, my grandmother, died at 97, and her husband at 98.
- Beautiful Words
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm standing in a stadium packed with 80,000 screaming fans, I can't just whip out my Bible before I run. That's when I start praying! It's so loud that I can't even hear what I'm saying, but it always helps.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020