I don't read the Bible as the literal word of God; I don't view Jesus as a God. I've rejected both those statements. I view Jesus as a model for how we should live, and by that definition I do consider myself a Christian.
Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies. . . pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.
We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.
Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.
I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.
Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.
We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this has to be done by harmonizing the Vedas, the Bible, and the Koran.
In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.
There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.
The Bible says that love is a responsibility. We are commanded to love. God doesn't ask us if we feel like it, He tells us in His Word that it is our responsibility to love.
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
Of the Divine character of the Bible, I think, no man who deals honestly with his own mind and heart can entertain a reasonable doubt, For myself, I must say, that having for many years made the evidences of Christianity the subject of close study, the result has been a firm and increasing conviction of the authenticity and plenary inspiration of the Bible. It is indeed the Word of God.
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
There's no immortality of the soul that you can infer from the Bible.
The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare. . . . The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.
The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.