The church’s theology bought into this ahistoricism in different ways: along a more liberal, post-Kantian trajectory, the historical particularities of Christian faith were reduced to atemporal moral teachings that were universal and unconditioned. Thus it...

We ought not to READ the scriptures, but listen to them, for our Beloved is present and speaks to us through them. (vs. it being like a love letter sent to us from afar).

[They] pervert the course of nature [by saying] the sun does not move and that it is the earth that revolves and that it turns.[John Calvin illustrating his opposition to heliocentrism in a sermon due...

May our conscience be renewed by the WORD of GOD.

A single prayer of yours, a few words whispered on your knees, in humble submission to the God of our fathers, and a firm belief that what you ask will in fact be done… and...

Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make.

The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.

The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.

It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it’s the parts that I do understand.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.

To preach about sin, but refuse to integrate grace and mercy is a sermonic sin.

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...

When you bring all your doubts and fears to God, you’ll find the reason to trust Him. And as you trust Him, you will draw closer to Him. Best of all, no one who draws...

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal,...

Once, long ago, Jesus had called her name, breaking through the darkness of her oppression to set her free from the seven demons that bound her. now He broke through the hopelessness of her grief...

He told m the best advice he could ever give me is all in this book. We need God’s constant help and blessings. Both are in the pages of the Bible.

If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every chain upon the limbs of heresy was music in the ear of God....

The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God condemned us and Jesus saved us, and they are actually the same being?...

The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.

Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The office of deacon was instituted initially to address this pressing need.

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20...

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrew 11:1 KJV)

And when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, silence coverd the sky

And even those who claim to read the Bible literally and to lead their lives according to its precepts are, in actual practice, highly selective about which parts of the Bible they live by and...

We must acknowledge that all we have are, at times very differing, interpretations of what Jesus was all about-and these interpretations, as they are collected in the New Testament, have been written in particular situations...

I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don’t agree with organized religion in that respect.

if we fail to root ourselves in Scripture, our souls will be starved for Christ.

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

Evangelical Christians need to notice…, that the Reformation said ‘Scripture Alone’ and not ‘the Revelation of God in Christ Alone’. If you do not have the view of the Scriptures that the Reformers had, you...

Upon being given a Bible, President Abraham Lincoln replied, “In regard to this Great book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.

The day I became a writerit wasn’t the day a whore paid me in sexin exchange for one of my bookswhich happened often and more and moreas time went onit wasn’t the first time someone...

Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I’m actually quite surprised the Bible sells.

Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.

Whoever honoured the word of God shall be blessed.

Your children will be like olive shootsaround your table.” -Psalm 128:3Children are likened to olive plants. Olive plants, if not pruned and controlled, become a wild nuisance. On the other hand, small olive plants that...

The Bible is the philosophy of life.

This is the picture of a woman cast in the role of a learner, a pupil, even a rabbinic student. Quite obviously this is a prohibited role for women in those days and in that...

My prayer;Lord grant me the spirit of excellency.

I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.

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,...

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...

Let’s take some extra time to talk about one: Only the number one can create all numbers with this simple equation, 111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321. One, expressed nine times, multiplied by itself, produces all...

Lord, my life is but a mist, yet through Your power, the things I give myself to can have an eternal impact. I am Your vessel.

In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions.

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

The ruach blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but cannot tell from where it comes or where it goes. God is He, He is Ruach (Spirit) and Ruach is speaking to our ruach...

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we...