Only a mother would think her daughter has been a good girl when she returns from a date with a Gideon Bible in her handbag.
Bible Quotes
Some people like to read so many (Bible) chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Oh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture, and to let it be […]
When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name.
A knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without the Bible.
Men talk of “the mistakes of Scripture.” I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that […]
Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditional or invented absurdities, or of downright lies.
An engineering professor is treating her husband, a loan officer, to dinner for finally giving in to her pleas to shave off the scraggly beard he grew on vacation. His favorite restaurant is a casual place where they both feel comfortable in slacks and cotton-polyester-blend golf shirts. But, as always, she wears the gold and […]
The Bible – among other books is as a diamond among precious stones.
A parable is an assault on the conventions, including the social, economic and mythic structures that people build for their own comfort and security. A parable is a story meant to subvert these structures and to suggest that the way of the kingdom is not the way of the world.
Great objects inspire great thoughts; great munificence excites great gratitude; but the groveling tales and doctrines of the Bible – are fit only to excite contempt… the stupid Bible of the church, that teaches man nothing.
