Quotes on Bible

Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.

Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.

You can't blame things for being dark if the light bulbs aren't working. So we're complaining about the darkness when the bulbs aren't working, and the Bible says that we are the light of the world.

One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.

There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God

I revere the fullness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and creation. In the gospel moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His Word.