- God
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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.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I grew up, my house contained only two books: the Bible and the 'Edmonds' cookbook. We were a working-class household. Books were a poor second to the television, which was always on, usually with me in front of it.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot hate, because my Bible teaches me not to hate.
- Evangelist
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- Nov 07, 2020
In evangelical and Pentecostal churches, most people have a home church they identify with, but you have a favourite pastor or evangelist that you listen to occasionally. Studying scripture means you don't just read the Bible: you read devotional books and books designed to help your spiritual walk or the church broadly construed.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to know God through the pages of my Bible. And as a result, I started a Bible class in my city for the primary purpose of being in it.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whether you're obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don't see any purpose for me in being ordained.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy.
- Goodness
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
- Grow Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't grow up reading the Bible.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oddly enough, George Pal always began and ended something with The Bible. All his pictures had a religious undertone. God was always there, protecting us.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
If all Christians and Jews tithed their income as the Bible commands, every poor person would be cared for, every naked person clothed, and every hungry person fed.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
- Coordinate
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- Nov 07, 2020