You read the Bible in your own special ways, you’re fond of quoting certain things it says, Mouth full of righteousness and wrath from above. When do we hear about forgiveness and love?
Bible Quotes
So much for that letter; to which I may now add, that there are several things in the Old Testament impossible to be given by divine inspiration; such as the approbation ascribed to the angel of the Lord of that abominably wicked and detestable action of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite. If the […]
If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
I believe everything in the Bible should be accepted as it is given there: some of the Bible is given illustratively. For instance: “Ye are the salt of the earth.” I would not insist that man was actually salt, or that he had flesh of salt, but it is used in the sense of salt […]
Scholars may quote Plato in their studies, but the hearts of millions will quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength from its inspirations, as the meadows draw it from the brook.
According to the declaration of the Second Vatican Council, a faithful account of the actions and words of Jesus is to be found in the Gospels; but it is impossible to reconcile this with the existence in the text of contradictions, improbabilities, things which are materially impossible or statements which run contrary to firmly established […]
Thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the book’s out side who ne’er look within.
If somebody claims that no rational person can take a book seriously which assumes that the world was created in six days and man in an afternoon, ask him if he can take Shakespeare seriously whose scientific knowledge would have sent a third-grader into peals of laughter. Finally this. If you look “at” a window, […]
