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?...

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks...

The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has withstood so much bad preaching!

Here’s another way to put it: You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We’re going public with this, as public as a...

Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.

Let my people go

So, at the turn of the third millennium, you have chosen to base your principles on a collection of contradictory texts – written by various men years after the death of your man Jesus –...

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...

It is only right and proper to be moved by the Bible, but present-day reality has so strong a hold over us that even when we try to imagine the past the minor events in...

Where God gives opportunity for preaching it is more than likely that he has some people to convert. Usually the Word of God takes root among some, though often in but a few.

What lies between where you are and where you want to be sometimes requires traveling through the Twilight Zone.

The New Testament writers speak as if Christ’s achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the ‘first fruits,’ the pioneer...

A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this–not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit.

I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)

Be courageous and He shall strengthen your heart, all of you who hope in the Lord.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Eph....

But what does he profit if the man gains the world but loses his soul?

God’s thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

In classrooms and living rooms across the globe, an agnostic or an atheist may be heard to strenuously argue, ‘But the Bible is just a book.’ Similar arguments may be raised against other holy books....

Jonah’s anger was not marked by outbursts of rage but by a quiet withdrawal from the company of others and a growing preoccupation with the events in his own life.

Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil’s advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.

I remember the will said, ‘May God thy gold refine.’ That must be from the Bible.””Shakespeare,” Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.