Bible Quotes

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essences of fairy stories. This is different from all the others because it has “entered history.” Unlike the other stories there is no tale ever told that men would rather find true, to reject it leads either to sadness […]

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

Because the Bible is a command word, it is not designed nor does it seek to satisfy our curiosity, but rather to declare God’s purpose and law, and to command our faith in and obdience thereto. The command word of a sovereign God can only be an infallible word, and a law word. The Bible […]

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” we closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

That Bible, the handiwork of a pair of printers named Barker and Lucas, was published in England in 1631. It was a handsome volume, as well it should have been, for Messrs. B and L were the King’s printers. But it had one little flaw: a three-letter word, not, was missing from the Seventh Commandment, […]

It was the Father that inflicted this ferocious and undeserved punishment upon those bereaved and friendless virgins, whose parents and kindred he had slaughtered before their eyes. And were they praying to him for pity and rescue, meantime? Without a doubt of it. (reflection on: But all the women children, that have not known a […]

Read this book for what on reason you can accept and take the rest on faith, and you will live and die a better man.

I’ve taken up the Bible again somewhat in the spirit of W. C. Fields – loooking for loopholes.