Quotes
on Bible - When I open my Bible, I’m invited into a jet-stream of love
“The
Ark was build to hold the humility of Gods favors and the flood took place to
wash away His anger”
―
Ben Jr Grey
“Every
word in God’s Book is there by deliberate design, namely the Holy Ghost. Each
sentence in the Scriptures is divinely structured.”
―
Cory Trout
“When
I open my Bible, I’m invited into a jet-stream of love.”
―
Beth Swiger, Desert Trained Warriors: God's Hidden Leaders Emerging from the
Wilderness in the Power of the Holy Spirit
“I
was Noblest of all creatures,
I
was the Successor,
I
was made to believe I am Dust &
I
committed a Sin!”
―
Aiyaz Uddin, The Inward Journey
“With
starry eyes we forget what is literally the oldest trick in The Book: that the
very first 'liberal' was one of deception - a snake in the Garden - and he
corrupted paradise.”
―
Criss Jami
“I
have read the Bible, it has a lot of different interpretations. It is a book of
codes.”
―
Steven Magee
“Literature
of any kind can teach us a lot, but any text refuting scrutiny makes the skull
a vacant lot.”
―
Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“The
believer does not allow himself to approach the Word of the Lord critically,
but places himself under its judgement.”
―
Zacharias Zacharou, Hesychasm: The Bedewing Furnace of the Heart
“The
story of scripture is a story of God creating humanity out of love. The story
of scripture is a story of humanity being hurt by all of the challenges of
life, as we well know. The story of scripture is then a story of God healing
humanity through continually bringing us unity to God and each other. The story
of scripture is not one of sin, anger, fear, and extremely limited grace and
forgiveness. The story of scripture is one of healing, connection, belonging,
and love for all.”
―
Bradley Sullivan, For the Hurt, the Blessed, and the Damned
“I
don't remember what class I was in with this girl, but she was just going on
and on about raised minimum wage and socialized medicine and the entire time I
was just wondering where in the Bible Jesus said to go to your neighbor at
gunpoint to take his wages and to give it to someone else. I call it the
"Gospel of Violent Jesus" . because this is the Jesus Christ
radicalized by both radical conservatives and progressives, in which everything
Jesus said is used to justify state sponsored violence and coercion, This govermment
tied gospel is used to advocate for socialized medicine, like what Republican John
Kasich tried to pull when he labeled himself a "compassionate
conservative" and said Medicaid expansion was biblical. The progressive
left is hateful towards Christians but yells and screams and brings up the
Bible selectively to advocate for open borders and socialized everything.”
―
Remso Martinez
“For
the only reason (I came to think) for God to inspire the Bible would be so that
his people would have his actual words; but if he really wanted people to have
his actual words, surely he would have miraculously preserved those words, just
as he had miraculously inspired them in the first place. Given the
circumstances that he didn't preserve the words, the conclusion seemed
inescapable to me that he hadn't gone to the trouble of inspiring them.”
―
Bart D. Ehrman
“Polytheistic
Greek mythology includes some stories that tell of intervention by Zeus in
human affairs but others that tell of Zeus’s life among his fellow gods. In the
Bible, God, being the only god, does not have that second kind of action
through which to present himself. But the peculiarity of God’s character does
not end there. God could conceivably engage in some kind of demonstrative
action that would serve his own self-presentation apart from any interaction
with man: miraculous displays, cosmic disruptions, the creation of other
worlds. But in fact he refrains from all such activity. Not only does he lack
any social life among other gods but he also lacks what we might call a private
life. His only way of pursuing an interest in himself is through mankind.”
―
Jack Miles, God: A Biography
“The
people who wrote down the Bible and the people who wrote down the Mahayana
sutras were artists. They used images to express their insights.”
―
Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Battles: Modern Commentary on the Teachings of Master
Linji
“But
the Bible narrative is all about creativity bursting forth from the true self,
the true you.”
―
Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the
Liberating Truth of God
“The
Quran's relationship to Tanakh and the Bible differs from that of the New
Testament to Tanakh. Whereas the New Testament reinterprets Tanakh and
incorporates it into the Bible as the Old Testament, the Quran refers to the
Jewish and Christian scriptures while remaining independent of both.”
―
Charles L Cohen, The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction: A Very
Short Introduction
“Love
is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not
proud." — 1 Corinthians 13”
―
Christian Bible, The Christian Bible
“Mankind
seeks to destroy that which challenges its supremacy. Therefore, if God doesn’t
exist and Biblical principles are irrelevant, why does mankind spend so much
time seeking to destroy both?”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“After
watching how eagerly my Christian friends studied the Bible, I realized I
wasn’t going to have what they had unless I took it seriously as well. I saw
the hope they derived from its pages and how much reliable guidance it gave
them. I saw how much joy they got from applying it, and I realized it was the
key”
―
Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey
to finding purpose
“Pride
is a gateway sin that offers an open doorway for our enemy to drop in and tell
us just how great we are, and how we really don't need God.”
―
Chris Hodges, The Daniel Dilemma: How to Stand Firm and Love Well in a Culture
of Compromise
“Humility
is not thinking less of yourself. Humility is thinking of yourself less. We can
be courageous and contrite at the same time.”
―
Chris Hodges, The Daniel Dilemma: How to Stand Firm and Love Well in a Culture
of Compromise
