Quotes
on Bible - What was there before Creation?
“The
question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property
of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.”
―
Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer
“Let
me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the
desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no
oil!”
―
Golda Meir
“The
Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks.
Moreover,
it speaks of everything.”
―
Cornelius Van Til
“The
reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about
you.”
―
Billy Sunday
“You
Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all
civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a
battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece
of literature.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“The
character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be
imagined. If those accounts be true, he was the wretch that first began and
carried on wars on the score or on the pretence of religion; and under that
mask, or that infatuation, committed the most unexampled atrocities that are to
be found in the history of any nation. Of which I will state only one instance:
When
the Jewish army returned from one of their plundering and murdering excursions,
the account goes on as follows (Numbers xxxi. 13): 'And Moses, and Eleazar the
priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them
without the camp; and Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the
captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the
battle; and Moses said unto them, 'Have ye saved all the women alive?' behold,
these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit
trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among
the congregation of the Lord. Now therefore, 'kill every male among the little
ones, and kill every woman that hath known a man by lying with him; but all the
women- children that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for
Yourselves.'
Among
the detestable villains that in any period of the world have disgraced the name
of man, it is impossible to find a greater than Moses, if this account be true.
Here is an order to butcher the boys, to massacre the mothers, and debauch the
daughters.
Let
any mother put herself in the situation of those mothers, one child murdered,
another destined to violation, and herself in the hands of an executioner: let
any daughter put herself in the situation of those daughters, destined as a
prey to the murderers of a mother and a brother, and what will be their
feelings?
In
short, the matters contained in this chapter, as well as in many other parts of
the Bible, are too horrid for humanity to read, or for decency to hear.”
―
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
“The
Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will
not live according to those you can understand.”
―
Billy Sunday
“In
regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift
God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was
communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong.
All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found
portrayed in it.”
―
Abraham Lincoln
“The
New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the
world.”
― Charles
Dickens
“God
planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's
pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is
with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come
back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.”
―
James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer
“It
shall greatly help ye to understand the Scriptures if thou mark not only what
is spoken or written, but of whom and to whom, with what words, at what time,
where, to what intent, with what circumstances, considering what goeth before
and what followeth after. ”
―
Miles Coverdale
“It
had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my
own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it would be like when I had my
own shop, or when I traveled abroad. I would always read before sleeping. One
day, I'd be so rich I would have a library full of novel to choose from. But I
would always end the evening with a Bible passage.”
―
Laurie Halse Anderson, Fever 1793
“We
must admit that simply knowing the contents of the Bible is not a sure route to
spiritual growth. There is an aweful assumption in evangelical churches that if
we can just get the Word of God into people's heads, then the Spirit of God
will apply it to their hearts. That assumption is aweful, not because the
Spirit never does what the assumption supposes, but because it excused pastors
and leaders from the responsibility to tangle with people's lives. Many remain
safely hidden behind pulpits, hopelessly out of touch with the struggles of
their congregations, proclaiming the Scriptures with a pompous accuracy that
touches no one. Pulpits should provide bridges, not barriers, to life-changing
relationships.”
―
Larry Crabb, Inside Out
“You
know, we can quote the written Word all day to our friends, but nothing will
touch them like our own hunger and love for the Word himself. It is not dutiful
love that attracts but love freely lavished from a heart familiar with the
gardens of heaven.”
―
Amy Layne Litzelman, This Beloved Road: A Journey of Revelation and Worship
“Theologians
and other clerks,
You
won't understand this book,
--
However bright your wits --
If
you do not meet it humbly,
And
in this way, Love and Faith
Make
you surmount Reason, for
They
are the protectors of Reason's house. ”
―
Marguerite Porete
“The
Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real
issues.”
―
Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human
“God
knew man would evolve. People think some of the Old Testament laws are absurd
now because we live in a very different culture, a different time period. They
had their problems and we have ours. God is constant but man is not, and he
foreknew the ever-changing world his people would have to deal with; therefore,
and if there is indeed an omniscient God, a Christ-like figure would be our
only rational, possible connection to a constant, holy God throughout the
evolution of culture and social law. The only answer that makes sense when it
comes to relevance regarding religions and time periods is Christ, and the
chances are slim that men could have invented it.”
―
Criss Jami, Killosophy
“the
whole Bible is itself a missional phenomenon. The writings that now comprise
our Bible are themselves the product of and witness to the ultimate mission of
God. The Bible renders to us the story of God's mission through God's people in
their engagement with God's world for the sake of the whole of God's creation.
The Bible is the drama of this God of purpose engaged in the mission of
achieving that purpose universally, embracing past, present and future, Israel
and the nations, "life, the universe and everything," and with its
centre, focus, climax, and completion in Jesus Christ. Mission is not just one
of a list of things that the Bible happens to talk about, only a bit more
urgently than some. Mission is, in that much-abused phrase, "what it's all
about.”
―
Christopher J.H. Wright
“All
my days were written in Your book and planned before a single one of them
began.
Psalm
139:16”
― S.
L. Rubart
“The
menopause of Sarah became her menostart; this is feminine beauty! The death
plot against Mordecai became his life spring; this is masculine beauty! A kind
of life lived in God's word is a life of miraculous beauty!”
―
Israelmore Ayivor
