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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
- Open
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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
- Mind
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
- Face
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
- Change
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The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.
- I Can
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I rarely do any back story. I often get a thick bible of back story, but I can't use it. The back story is a tool of the writer. But I can only act what's in the scene.
- Look
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Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
- Life
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There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.
- Mad
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I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc... but Jesus.
- Life
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We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.
- Possible
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As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible.
- Free
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If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done,' we'll miss the good news that alone can set us free.
- Moral
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The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any hint of unholiness.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justification and sanctification are both God's work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won't let us separate them. Both are gifts of our union with Christ, and within this double-blessing, justification is the root of sanctification and sanctification is the fruit of justification.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.
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