Quotes
on Bible - The Wages of Sin
“For
the wages of sin is Death, but the gift of God is everlasting Life in Christ
Jesus or LORD.”
―
Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
“Thou
shalt not stand idly by”
―
Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
“The
Bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs.”
―
Bill Maher
“Keep
watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is
willing, but the body is weak.”
―
Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
“All
that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.”
―
David Livingstone
“A
God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad
ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single
happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short;
who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children
to earn it; who gave is angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children
with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and
invented hell--mouths mercy, and invented hell--mouths Golden Rules and
forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths
morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet
commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the
responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where
it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness,
invites his poor abused slave to worship him!”
―
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
“He
does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans,
startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I
have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure
they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: “His secret purpose
framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory” (1
Corinthians 2:7 NEB).”
―
Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
“Those
who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is
the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires.
Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They
are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting
both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do.”
―
Criss Jami, Killosophy
“The
thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that
which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”
―
Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
“As
for biblical or religious theory, I don’t ever want to fight about the details
of the story, I want to live the reality of the message.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“The
great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither
God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.”
―
Louis Zamperini, Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of
Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II
“I
am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation
of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.”
―
Anonymous, Holy Bible: The New King James Version
“This
day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you
life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your
children may live 20 and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his
voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you
many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob.
Deuteronomy
30:19-20 (NIV)”
―
Anonymous, Holy Bible: The New King James Version
“Finaly,
my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the
whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the
devil.
-Ephesians
6:10-11”
―
Anonymous, Holy Bible: The New King James Version
“I
remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the
Bible."
"Shakespeare,"
Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.”
―
Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game
“The
Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.”
―
Joni Eareckson Tada, Anger: Aim It in the Right Direction
“It
must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that
society.”
―
R.J. Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law, Volume 1 of 3
“What
I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to
solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the Bible: defending the
dried ink marks on the page becomes more vital than defending the neighbor. As
a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward
one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of
Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, 'People of the Book risk putting the book
above people.”
―
Barbara Brown Taylor, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
“Christianity's
goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it
for the better.”
―
Marcus J. Borg, Speaking Christian: Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning
and Power―And How They Can Be Restored
“But
for this book we could not know right from wrong.”
―
Abraham Lincoln
