Quotes
on Bible - Thinking the Word makes wise
“The
Bible is to interpret the Bible. It’s up to us to agree with it.”
―
Jack Hibbs
“Casting
your cares takes your focus off your own inability and weaknesses and puts the
focus on the One who can take care of the problem.”
―
Richard J Nilsen, CAST: 1 Peter 5:7
“Learning
to cast your cares on God can be a struggle at first, but it is a pathway to a
God-fearing and eternal mindset. When you fail to cast your cares, you waste
time worrying and feeling anxious.”
―
Richard J Nilsen, CAST: 1 Peter 5:7
“Thinking
the word makes wise.”
―
Chidiebere Orji Agbugba
“In
the Mediterranean world, deception is a legitimate strategy at the service of
honor; it is a means value. Those who excel in deception are cheered by the
crowd, even as those they have "taken in" smart from the shame and
plot retaliation.”
―
John J. Pilch
“For
it is established by God's Word that God does not lie, nor does His word lie.”
―
Martin Luther
“Despite
biblical prohibitions against lying, the Bible rarely offers an evaluation of
its characters or their conduct, thus leaving the moral ambiguity regarding the
Bible’s attitude towards the ethical nature of deception open to interpretation
by the reader.”
―
Shira Weiss, Ethical Ambiguity in the Hebrew Bible: Philosophical Analysis of
Scriptural Narrative
“...the
OT never categorically prohibits deception, but only deception that brings
unjust harm or disadvantage to another person.”
―
Matthew Newkirk, Just Deceivers: An Exploration of the Motif of Deception in
the Books of Samuel
“For
trickster saves the world. The paradoxical trickster-creating order through
chaos, the underdog that overcomes, the liminal role, and all the dangers
associated with it, personified Israel. So in Exile when the canon is beginning
to form, the Israelites tell of their ancestors as tricksters. For the
trickster represents not only the threat of a marginalized existence, or the
danger of the liminal status, but also the salvific role in which Israel still
paradoxically believed it functioned.”
―
Dean Andrew Nicholas, The Trickster Revisited: Deception as a Motif in the
Pentateuch
“We
can know all the scriptures, do all the stuff, obey all the rules, but if we
aren’t willing to be offended by His reconciling love, if we aren’t willing to
repent, to change our thoughts, to step away from us and them thinking, then we
are missing the whole point.
This
Jonah story is on every page of the Bible and in every cell of our bodies. Over
and again, God is revealing Himself perfectly through Christ as gracious,
compassionate, slow to anger, forgiving, redeeming, restoring, abounding in
love, and desiring to save us from calamity.”
―
Jason Clark
“We
may with confidence approach the throne. We may walk in the garden with Him
once again.”
―
Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
“It
was for the purpose of restoring intimate fellowship with mankind that Jesus
came.”
―
Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
“Jesus
is telling us that redemption is more than having our sins forgiven; it is an
intimate relationship He came to restore between us and God. If we are going to
live out the first and greatest commandment of loving God completely (Matt.
22:36-37), this is the type of experiential intimacy which ought to be the
objective of our lives.”
―
Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
“I
feel his love most strongly when I am confident in his love.”
―
Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
“We
all want reassurance that the love we crave is a love we can find, or that will
find us.”
―
Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
“When
I hear that still, small Voice wooing me and asking me to drop everything and
spend time with Him, I need to be willing to yield.”
―
Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
“Woe
to them, for they have strayed from me!
Ruin
to them, for they have rebelled against me!
Though
I wished to redeem them,
they
spoke lies against me.
They
have not cried to me from their hearts
when
they wailed upon their beds;
For
wheat and wine they lacerated themselves;
they
rebelled against me.”
―
Donald Senior, The Catholic Study Bible
“Wow,
nanobot infestations? And you thought bed bugs
were
nasty!”
―
Thomas R Campbell DD, Extraterrestrial God of Ezekiel
“Let
us take heed how we carry ourselves to the creation which is to occupy with us
the world to come.
To
those whose hearts are sore for that creation, I say, The Lord is mindful of
his own, and will save both man and beast.”
―
George MacDonald, Hope of the Gospel
“I
know of no reason why I should not look for the animals to rise again, in the
same sense in which I hope myself to rise again—which is, to reappear, clothed
with another and better form of life than before. If the Father will raise his
children, why should he not also raise those whom he has taught his little ones
to love? Love is the one bond of the universe, the heart of God, the life of
his children: if animals can be loved, they are loveable; if they can love,
they are yet more plainly loveable: love is eternal; how then should its object
perish? Must the very immortality of love divide the bond of love? Must the
love live on for ever without its object? or worse still, must the love die
with its object, and be eternal no more than it? What a mis-invented
correlation in which the one side was eternal, the other, where not yet
annihilated, constantly perishing! Is not our love to the animals a precious
variety of love? And if God gave the creatures to us, that a new phase of love
might be born in us toward another kind of life from the same fountain, why
should the new life be more perishing than the new love? Can you imagine that,
if, here-after, one of God's little ones were to ask him to give again one of
the earth's old loves—kitten, or pony, or squirrel, or dog, which he had taken
from him, the Father would say no? If the thing was so good that God made it
for and gave it to the child at first who never asked for it, why should he not
give it again to the child who prays for it because the Father had made him
love it? What a child may ask for, the Father will keep ready.”
―
George MacDonald, Hope of the Gospel
“Unless
we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can
do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and
restore some of the missing parts.”
―
Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire”
―
Mr. Lyndon Reece Akins, From Fear to Faith: Realize God’s goodness in spite of
adversity
