The Bible is the best of books, and I wish it were in the hands of every one. It is indispensable to the safety and permanence of our institutions. A free government can not exist without religion and morals, and there cannot be morals without religion. Especially should the Bible be placed in the hands of the young. It is the best school book in the world. I would that all our people were brought up under the influence of that holy book.
I think Bible principles are principles for life.
Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America. ' He listed 275 men of the cloth who used the Bible to prove that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals.
the Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.
You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible is the Word of God.
Regular expository preaching of the Bible is the staple diet of a healthy church.
The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.
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.
I looked back at the previous 10 years and realized I had spent 10 years trying to convince kids to behave Christianly without actually teaching them Christianity. And that was a pretty serious conviction. You can say, 'Hey kids, be more forgiving because the Bible says so,' or, 'Hey kids, be more kind because the Bible says so!' But that isn't Christianity, it's morality.
Whenever you find a preacher who takes the Bible allegorically and figuratively. . . that preacher is preaching an allegorical gospel which is no gospel. I thank God for a literal Christ, for a literal salvation. There is literal sorrow, literal death, literal Hell, and, thank God, there is a literal Heaven.
The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established in the faith, after their conversion. It is able to cleanse them, to sanctify them, to instruct them in righteousness, and to furnish them thoroughly for all good works.
To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?
The Bible itself is intolerant, and true followers of God's word should be as well.
The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinions of any man.
The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.
The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.
Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is The Origin of Species.
How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.