A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
Reading the Bible is the fast track to atheism. Reading the Bible means starting at "In the beginning. . . " and throwing it down with disgust at ". . . the grace of the lord Jesus be with all. Amen. " I'm sure there are lots of religious people who've read the Bible from start to finish and kept their faith, but in my self-selected sample, all the people I know who have done that are atheists.
It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.
I'm hoping to know and teach a Gospel that is true to Scripture - and the Gospel that I see in the Bible is COSMIC (big enough to redeem all of Creation) and RELATIONAL (getting at the root of the Fall - the loss of our relational capacities).
As a Fundamentalist I had discovered while I was in college that it is possible to dismiss the entire Church as having gone off the rails by about AD 95. That is, we, with our open Bibles, knew better than did old Ignatius or Clement, who had been taught by the very apostles themselves, just what the Church is and what it should look like.
Don't yield to Satan's lie that you don't have time to study the scriptures. Choose to take time to study them. Feasting on the word of God each day is more important than sleep, school, work, television shows, video games, or social media. You may need to reorganize your priorities to provide time for the study of the word of God. If so, do it!
Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare. . . . The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.
My heart wants to read the Bible, wants to obey God. When you have Jesus in your life, when you have God in your life, like the thing in this world is not important to your heart. The more important is God in your heart. That's how God changed my life.
As I reread each book of the Bible, I fell in love all over again - not just with God's Word, but with God himself.
Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.
Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.
You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say "God is love" they will claim that you are taking things out of context!
The more people marginalize the true God of the Bible the more chaotic things become.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.
The plan of salvation as stated in the Bible can be seen through observation of the universe around us.
The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarified of my affections, the mirror of my thoughts, the consoler of my sorrows, the guide of my soul through this gloomy labyrinth of time, the telescope went from heaven to reveal to the eye of man the amazing glories of the far distant world.
I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger. " When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.
There are more words in the IRS code than there are in the Bible. And not a one of them is as good.