Quotes on Bible - When you are possessed by Evil Spirits
“Bookshop
Customer: 'Who wrote the bible?'
Customer's
friend: 'Jesus.”
―
Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
“When
you are posessed by evil spirits, it is crafty manipulations that you follow;
but when you are posessed by the Holy Spirit of God, it is wise discretions you
pursue!”
―
Israelmore Ayivor
“Choose
to view life through God's eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn't come
naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate
our vantage point. Start by reading His Word, the Bible...Pray and ask God to
transform your thinking. Let Him do what you cannot. Ask Him to give you an
eternal, divine perspective.”
―
Swindoll Charles R.
“God
did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I
have shown in The Essence of Christianity, made God in his image.”
―
Ludwig Feuerbach, Lectures on the Essence of Religion
“When
you cultivate a godly thought life your soul will shine and you will exhibit
the presence of the Lord in you.”
―
Elizabeth George, A Woman's High Calling: 10 Essentials for Godly Living
“The
approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world's books
into one book, just as Kevin (Kelly) suggested. It might start to happen in the
next decade or so. Google and other companies are scanning library books into
the cloud in a massive Manhattan Project of cultural digitization. What happens
next is what's important. If the books in the cloud are accessed via user
interfaces that encourage mashups of fragments that obscure the context and
authorship of each fragment, there will be only one book. This is what happens
today with a lot of content; often you don't know where a quoted fragment from
a news story came from, who wrote a comment, or who shot a video. A
continuation of the present trend will make us like various medieval religious
empires, or like North Korea, a society with a single book.
The
Bible can serve as a prototypical example. Like Wikipedia, the Bible's
authorship was shared, largely anonymous, and cumulative, and the obscurity of
the individual authors served to create an oracle-like ambience for the
document as "the literal word of God." If we take a non-metaphysical
view of the Bible, it serves as a link to our ancestors, a window. The
ethereal, digital replacement technology for the printing press happens to have
come of age in a time when the unfortunate ideology I'm criticizing dominates
technological culture. Authorship - the very idea of the individual point of
view - is not a priority of the new ideology. The digital flattening of
expression into a global mush is not presently enforced from the top down, as
it is in the case of a North Korean printing press. Instead, the design of
software builds the ideology into those actions that are the easiest to perform
on the software designs that are becoming ubiquitous. It is true that by using
these tools, individuals can author books or blogs or whatever, but people are
encouraged by the economics of free content, crowd dynamics, and lord
aggregators to serve up fragments instead of considered whole expressions or
arguments. The efforts of authors are appreciated in a manner that erases the
boundaries between them.
The
one collective book will absolutely not be the same thing as the library of
books by individuals it is bankrupting. Some believe it will be better; others,
including me, believe it will be disastrously worse. As the famous line goes
from Inherit the Wind: 'The Bible is a book... but it is not the only book' Any
singular, exclusive book, even the collective one accumulating in the cloud,
will become a cruel book if it is the only one available.”
―
Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
“Every
truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.”
―
K.P. Yohannan, Living in the Light of Eternity: Discovering God's Design for
Your Life
“It
must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is
addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.”
―
William Wilberforce, Real Christianity
“So
whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the
Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving of judgment. Not the
children, for they inherit eternal life. So who is wronged? Ironically, I think
the most difficult part of this whole debate is the apparent wrong done to the
Israeli soldiers themselves. Can you imagine what it would be like to have to
break into some house and kill a terrified woman and her children? The
brutalising effect on these Israeli soldiers is disturbing.”
―
William Lane Craig
“This
Jesus of Nazereth without money and arms, conquered more millions than
Alexander, Caeser, Muhammad and Napoleon; without science and learning, He shed
more light on matters human and divine than all philosophers and scholars
combined; without the eloquence of schools, He spoke such words of life as were
never spoke before or since and produced effects which lie beyond the reach of
orator poet; without writing a single line, He set more pens in motion and
furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions, learned volumes,
works of art and songs of praise than the whole army of great men of ancient
and modern times.”
―
John Schaff
“Wherever
he found his speech growing too modern -- which was about every sentence or two
-- he ladled in a few such Scriptural phrases as "exceeding sore,"
"and it came to pass," etc., and made things satisfactory again.
"And it came to pass" was his pet. If he had left that out, his Bible
would have been only a pamphlet.”
―
Mark Twain, Roughing It
“Secular
humanists of every type may ridicule the Bible, but they cannot escape it; and
in their obsession with change, calls for reform, doomsday warnings, and
utopian visions, they continue to steal from it.”
―
Gene Edward Veith Jr., Loving God With All Your Mind: How to Survive and
Prosper As a Christian in the Secular University and Post-Christian Culture
“Love
is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not
arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked,
does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in
unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all
things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails;...”
― God
through Paul in Corinthians 13:4-8a
“The
only sure rule is to remember that the Bible is indeed God's gift to the
church, to equip that church for its work in the world, and that serious study
of it can and should become one of the places where, and the means by which,
heaven and earth interlock and God's future purposes arrive in the present.”
―
N.T. Wright, Simply Christian
“We
must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I
suspect not many people make more than a token stab in that direction. It's
extremely hard work. It makes Bible study alternately convicting and
reassuring, painful and soothing, puzzling and calming, and sometimes dull -
but not for long if our purpose is to see ourselves better.”
―
Larry Crabb , Inside Out
“Atheists/agnostics
scored an average of 6.7 out of 12 on questions specifically regarding the
Bible and Christianity. This is a higher score than (Protestant) Christians
(6.2) and Catholics (5.4).”
―
Pew Report
“The
marvel of our Bible never shows more marvellous than at such times, when you
see it in deed and in truth the Sword of the Spirit, and it cuts.”
―
Amy Wilson-Carmichael
“I
had a head for religious ideas. They were the first ideas I ever encountered.
They made other ideas seem mean....I had miles of Bible in memory: some
perforce, but most by hap, like the words to songs. There was no corner of my
brain where you couldn't find, among the files of clothing labels and heaps of
rocks, among the swarms of protozoans and shelves of novels, whole tapes and
snarls and reels of Bible.”
―
Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
“Stand
in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.”
―
Peter Kreeft
“The
Bible says that the earth is immovable. It cannot be moved. So now is your
chance to prove your point. Run outside and move the earth. Perhaps you and
your friends could jump on it, or find a rocky outcrop and push it together.
Maybe after that little experiment you will concede that the earth is
immovable.”
―
Ray Comfort, The Defender's Guide for Life's Toughest Questions
