Quotes on Bible - Love is Patient
“Love
is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no
record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It
always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
―
Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
“Sometimes
the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of
(another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying
about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can
look down the street and see the results.”
―
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“The
last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“The
God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all
fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a
vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist,
infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal,
sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
―
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
“Above
all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.”
―
Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
“Properly
read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
―
Isaac Asimov
“The
Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming
swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well
that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”
―
Soren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
“The
Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity,
and upwards of a thousand lies.”
―
Mark Twain
“I
do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense,
reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
―
Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
“Alcohol
may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
―
Frank Sinatra
“One
would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must
be already mad.”
―
Aleister Crowley, Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4
“There
are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than
speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God,
and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in
his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the
real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they
hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they
neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. They
love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they
will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree,
but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not
stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord. . . .”
―
Charles Spurgeon
“With
or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil;
but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
―
Steven Weinberg
“Rejection
is an opportunity for your selection.”
―
Bernard Branson
“Within
the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”
―
Ronald Reagan
“If
you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is
not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”
―
Augustine
“Imagine
the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally,
all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the
Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the
most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the
guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs
on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally
resent it bitterly.”
―
Isaac Asimov, The Roving Mind
“The
proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because
he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with
God.”
―
Soren A. Kierkegaard
“The
Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My
heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. (Psalm 28:7 NIV)”
―
Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
“A
Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.”
― Charles Spurgeon
