Quotes about Bible

There's this thing that I like to call the RC Sproul principle of hermenutics. When you're reading the bible and you come across someone doing something really stupid, don't say to yourself "I'm glad I'm not him". Ask yourself "How am I that stupid?

I don't know who said it first, but the following is good advice: If you do nothing but read your Bible, you will dry up; if you only pray, you will blow up; but if you read your Bible and pray, you will grow up.

If you walk in the Spirit, know your Bible, and spend sufficient time alone with God, your theology will take care of itself.

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.

If you come at the Bible as if it's a document of encyclopedic information, you've pretty much killed any kind of life change in a seeker and unbeliever.

Largely, the people driving abolition did it because of what they believed from the Bible.

I read the Bible every day, study it, and share with my wife the blessings of faith.

Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.