People need to know why we, as the Jewish people, have a right to be here. We need to tell people what we are doing here. . . My tourism guidebook is the Bible.
If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.
I may add that the result of my 45 years of study of the Bible has led me all the time to a firmer faith that in the Old Testament, we have a true historical account of the history of the Israelite people.
It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize the forms and doctrines of Christianity. . . Truly has Darmesteter written: 'The Jew was the apostle of unbelief, and every revolt of mind originated with him. '
All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.
The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.
Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible?
Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.
The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.
I will not lower the standard of the Bible to my level of experience.
When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT!
Many of those who scoff at the trustworthiness of the Bible do so completely overlooking the fact that thousands of archaeological discoveries have affirmed the historical reliability of the Bible.
Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.
The Bible is the place where God bears His soul.
The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with them. The sweetest joys, yea, the sweetest of the sweetest falls to his portion who has God's truth to be his heritage.
The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so that their manhood or womanhood can have no intellectual fulfillment, and millions of them only attain mentally to a sort of second childhood
Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to him belong, they are weak, but he is strong.
The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for.
Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
If you really want to be a rebel, get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.