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God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.
The Sermon on the Mount is a very nice piece about being good, but most of the Bible is a very revengeful, childish, brutal God.
From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.
We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.
I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.
Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.
W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.
Whenever my dad wasn't working, he'd take me along to pass out biblical tracts on street corners or in visits to the local prison.
Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.
The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.
Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.
The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin.
It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.
I don't leave home without my Skullcandy Crushers. I don't leave home without my Bible, without my phone, and without my computer.
The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
The reason why we find so many dark places in the Bible is, for the most part, because there are so many dark places in our hearts.
The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
When I came to faith, I was on pro-choice boards, and I dropped off of those because you couldn't read the Bible and be pro-choice.
There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'
When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.
I was raised Jehovah's Witness. I was in Bible school at five or six years old, but I wouldn't say that we were a religious family.
The Bible refers to the Word as 'the sword of the Spirit.' What battles are you not winning if you are not equipped with your sword?
Although all serious Christians recognize the importance that the Bible places on prayer, most fall short when it comes to doing it.
For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality.
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.
One of my pet peeves about biblical epics was that the characters' costumes always looked like they're just out of the dry cleaners.
Of course the New Testament is very small. Its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster, yet somehow man-made.
I want to give my respect, glory and time to the Bible - to the word of God - just as I want to give my respect and time to my work.
There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.
Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
The Christian community continues to exist because the conclusions of the critical study of the Bible are largely withheld from them.
I went to film school, and I came in when video art was king, weird stuff was king, and there, you don't have a script as your bible.
Who speaks for God? He does quite nicely for Himself. Through His holy and infallible Word - and the quiet obedience of His servants.
The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.
I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?'
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
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.
The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.
While the Bible teaches that immortality of the soul is conditional upon well-doing, it makes no distinction in respect of the spirit.
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.