- 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.
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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew that Jesus loved me, not because the Bible told me so but because my heart was informed by love. And later, for that same reason, I knew I was attracted to boys.
- Covenant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe that Israel is covenant land. That's very controversial, but I read the Bible literally, and I believe that God gave them that land, all the way back to Deuteronomy.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, traditionally, how I grew up, I grew up in the Baptist Church, always going to church every Sunday, Sunday school, vacation Bible school.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Southern Republicans are guided by the Bible. Western Republicans read the Constitution. Seen in historical terms, it's the difference between a movement descended from George Wallace and one that harks back to Barry Goldwater.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper. I lay it down as a simple matter of fact that no one who is careless about such things must ever expect to make much progress in sanctification.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be clear that I only share passages from the Bible as a gesture of love.
- Containing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.
- True
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible gives a true and trustworthy account of creation, and that account in no way conflicts with or contradicts an old-Earth view, and vice versa.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
To insist that belief in the Bible demands belief in a young Earth is to put a stumbling block in the path of many nonbelievers. It raises the question of why a God who is committed to revealing truth would make the universe and Earth measure to be old if, in fact, they are not.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020