Bible Quotes - page 4

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man. (John Barth)
It's time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or the Bible, and by asking them honestly, without foregone conclusions, science could take a huge leap forward. View quote
Deepak Chopra
Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe! View quote
Henry Rollins
Tuesday morning at the Bible study We lift our hands and pray over your body But nothing ever happens. View quote
Sufjan Stevens
The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible. View quote
Louis B. Mayer
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning. View quote
Northrop Frye
Those who do succeed in reading the Bible from beginning to end will discover that at least it has a beginning and an end, and some traces of a total structure. View quote
Northrop Frye
We notice as the Bible goes on, the area of scared space shrinks. View quote
Northrop Frye
The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation. View quote
Northrop Frye
Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a body of recurring imagery that "freezes" into a single metaphor cluster, the metaphors all being identified with the body of the Messiah, the man who is all men, the totality logoi who is one Logos, the grain of sand that is the world. (Northrop Frye)
It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and where we have to surrender precision for flexibility. View quote
Northrop Frye
"I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God." And I say no, it's not, Dad. "Well, I believe that it is." Well, you know, some people believe they're Napoleon. That's fine. Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth. View quote
Bill Hicks
The Bible is the funniest book I have ever read. It's so funny! Right in the first six pages, it's funny! View quote
David Cross
Where in the Bible does it say I have to drive a Honda? View quote
Benny Hinn
The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days... View quote
Rick Warren
Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its own feet by teaching men to use their brains in place whereof the Bible, on the one hand, and Aristotle, on the other, had previously served. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Don Quixote - I read that every year, as some do the Bible. View quote
William Faulkner
Reading the Bible is the fast track to atheism. Reading the Bible means starting at "In the beginning..." and throwing it down with disgust at "... the grace of the lord Jesus be with all. Amen." I'm sure there are lots of religious people who've read the Bible from start to finish and kept their faith, but in my self-selected sample, all the people I know who have done that are atheists. View quote
Penn Jillette
I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study (the Bible) an hour. You know, I was half out of my head-stoned almost. View quote
Bobby Fischer
The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible. (William Blake)
At night I sit in my chamber and read the Bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
From my upbringing and the Bible I learned people should stand up for rights just as the children of Israel stood up to the Pharaoh. View quote
Rosa Parks
Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays my grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my grandfather would pray. We even had devotions before going to pick cotton in the fields. Prayer and the Bible, became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength. View quote
Rosa Parks
The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness. View quote
Thomas More