Quotes
on Bible - Study the Holy Scriptures to know your Sovereign Lord
“The
Emperor Constantine the Great (272 - 337) and his Pauline bishops decided that
all the Gospels that went against the politics of the emperor and the
Hellenistic Christianity that was created by St Paul, were to be excluded from
the New Testament. Proof of this can be found in the fact that the 27 books of
The New Testament are but a very small fraction of the Christian literature
that was produced in the first three centuries after Jesus lived. These
documents are known as the Apocryphal Gospels (Greek, Apocrypha: ' hidden' or
'secret writings') and some of them retained quite a following and were highly
respected in the communities of the earliest times...”
―
Anton Sammut, The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78
“This
medicinal potion was additionally consumed as part of a sacred ritual known as
Sōmayajña where the Yogis that Jesus himself had taught were helped to reach an
enlightened trance.
In
effect, Jesus had developed the Nirvanalaksanayoga Tantra specifically for
women, to heal them from the psychological damage and abuse they had to endure
at the hands of men. He wanted to enable them to rise above patriarchal
dominance, realise their highest potential, and then he would guide them
towards an enlightened state. The first person to benefit from this privilege
was Mari [Mary Magdalene] herself. Jesus began teaching this discipline in
every place that he visited: from Kashmir in the northernmost region of the
Indian subcontinent, to Uttar Pradesh, and Mari would accompany him on every
journey he embarked on, from east of the Indus to Nepal.”
―
Anton Sammut, The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78
“At
this crucial point, for the Roman Church to reach a compromise between this
myth of Mithra and the Hellenistic Christianity of St. Paul, it was necessary
to have a sudden change of events or an altered version of Jesus's life, and it
was here that the Roman Church began to implement a psychological process known
today as Cognitive Dissonance. In a few words, this happens when a group of
people produce a false reconstruction of an event they want to continue to
believe in, a literary strategy also known as the Reconstructive Hypothesis.
This theological notion is equally known as Apotheosis or the glorification of
a subject to divine level such as a human becoming a god. In the case of Jesus,
this process was copied in its entirety from the religion of Mithra where their
'divinisations' were practically the same.”
―
Anton Sammut, The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78
“When
she listened to the voice of the serpent, eve received witchcraft from Satan;
and in her turn, she passed it on to her husband, Adam, and their eyes opened
and they knew they were naked.”
―
Simon Kimbangu, La Passion de Simon Kimbangu 1921-1951
“Susannah:
(sotto voce) Everybody's a goddam critic.
Jake:
Blaine, I have one more.
Blaine:
EXCELLENT.
Jake:
Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came sweetness.
Blaine:
(amused) THIS RIDDLE COMES FROM THE HOLY BOOK KNOWN AS 'OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE OF
KING JAMES.' IT WAS MADE BY SAMSON THE STRONG. THE EATER IS A LION; THE
SWEETNESS IS HONEY, MADE BY BEES WHICH HIVED IN THE LION'S SKULL. NEXT? YOU
STILL HAVE TIME, JAKE.
Jake:
(shaking his head negatively) I've told them all. I'm done.
Blaine:
(as John Wayne) SHUCKS, L'IL TRAILHAND, THAT'S A PURE-D SHAME. LOOKS LIKE I WIN
THAT THAR GOOSE, UNLESS SOMEBODY ELSE CARES TO SPEAK UP. WHAT ABOUT YOU, OY OF
MID-WORLD? GOT ANY RIDDLES, MY LITTLE BUMBLER BUDDY?”
―
Stephen King, Wizard and Glass
“The
Bible says God made man in his image, but I think we make and remake him in
whatever image happens to suit our shifting needs.”
―
C.J. Sansom, Dissolution
“Do
not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but
the sword.”
―
Jesus Christ
“If
it weren't for sin, not a page of holy scripture would be needed”
―
Brother Pedro
“There
are at least three types of people who say the Christian Bible is inaccurate or
corrupt:
1.
Those who never read
2.
Who never understood
3.
Those who accept others' views of the scriptures as if it was their
conclusions”
―
Brother Pedro
“Circumcise
therefore the foreskin of your heart...”
―
Anonymous, Holy Bible, King James Version
“The
Bible angers and frustrates those who believe that the pursuit of a perfect
society justifies the quest for absolute power.”
― Peter
Hitchens, The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith
“Study
the Holy Scriptures to know your Sovereign Lord.”
―
Lailah Gifty Akita
“Lift
up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens
shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and
they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for
ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. (Isaiah 51:6)”
―
King James Version, King James Holy Bible: KJV Authorized, Old and new
Testements
“Douay
translation has the approval of the successor of St. Peter and all the bishops
of the Church Universal, whereas the chief and basic Protestant Bible contents
itself with the approval of King James of England and the parliament of that
nation. As is evident even to the most superficial students of Sacred
Scripture, there is nothing in the Bible, or elsewhere, except the laws made by
Englishmen, that gives an English king or any other King or any civil
government any right whatever over the Word of God.”
― R.
Gerald Culleton, The Reign of Antichrist: A Sourcebook of Catholic Prophecies
about "The Man of Sin"
“Everything
you do, everything you'll ever accomplish, your life's work, your kids' life's
work: horseshit. (Ecclesiastes) [God Is Disappointed in You]”
―
Mark Russell
“As
a girl rebelling against my father’s dogma, I had scoffed at Job for accepting
God’s consolation of a new wife and new children. But I, most Joblike, when
Giles was dead, embraced Kit, and when Kit conveyed that he was not coming
back, it was the messenger himself, Ahab, whom I immediately loved. If Mother
and Liberty were gone, then here was Susan to unburden me of love. Not to be
loved but to love lightened my load of grief and gave value and direction to my
life.”
―
Sena Jeter Naslund, Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
“When
people tell me they don't believe in God, I usually ask, "What God don't
you believe in?" They invariably go on to describe a God who is
judgmental, vengeful, overbearing, unloving, or whimsical. "Oh, I don't
believe in that God, either," I say.”
―
Jon M. Sweeney, When Saint Francis Saved the Church
“Don
Clifford wrote in his book Nineveh Rising ...
Dex
added, “God blinded a generation specifically so we can develop it. God didn’t
want people to have these flying machines until it fits into his plan. So, it’s
God’s timing. The world isn’t falling apart; it’s falling together toward God’s
plan. He wins in the end! He is planning something fantastic, isn’t he?”
―
Jim Campbell, Nineveh Rising
“Most
of us have probably read these chapters [1 Cor. 11--15] as if they were
stand-alone works almost independent from one another. This is a by-product of
the Western church's tendency to teach Bible verses as lonely snippets and
chapters, as if they were self-contained silos, when we should be searching for
Scripture's overarching truths. (pp. 1-2)”
―
Stephen P. West, Something Happens Here: Reclaiming the Distinctiveness of
Wesley's Communion Spirituality in Times of Divisiveness
“You
who I called brother
How
could you have come to hate me so?
Is
this what you wanted?
I
send the swarm, I send the horde
Then
let my heart be hardened
And
never mind how high the cost may grow
This
will still be so
I
will never let your people go”
―
Stephen Schwartz, The Prince of Egypt
“Learn
to know your Bible, then you will know the Divine Being, God.”
―
Lailah Gifty Akita
“The
best literature, still with ancient power in forming character while shaping
conduct is the Holy Scriptures”
―
Lailah Gifty Akita