Quotes about Bible

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

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.

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn't think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

We can't treat the Bible with kid gloves. We really need to wrestle with the issues, because our faith depends on it.

Biblical hope is the confident expectation that God is willing and able to fulfill the promises he has made to those who trust in him.

Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence.

Hazen thought for a moment, then concluded: "You know, even if all religions were figments of our imagination, I would choose Christianity, because it says you can be assured that you're right with God. There's no need for performance anxiety or laboring through lifetime after lifetime. As the Bible says in 1 John 5:13: 'I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

When the Bible says God loves the world, it doesn't footnote any exceptions. God's grace is inexhaustible.

Only by facing my sin could God use it to change me for the better. The Bible warns that God's discipline isn't pleasant, but in the end the changes God produces in our character are worth it.

Western culture generally, as well as the Christian subculture specifically, has had an unwarranted tendency to think that abstract ideas and facts are the only valid type of knowledge that we possess. Literature challenges that bias, and so does the Bible. The Bible is not a theological outline with proof texts attached. It is an anthology of literature.

Teaching the Bible involves far more than simply giving out information about the Bible. Bible teaching is ministering to people, liberating them from their inadequate concepts of God, expanding their notion of what it means to live faithfully before God, helping them cast aside old self-defeating habits and replace them with habits of holiness.