I've still got the bible, I stole that night from my revival. From some hotel on 35.
The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.
To be a prosperous pastor one needs: (1) a bible (2) a tailored suit; and (3) a few psychology books.
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
Reading the bible is like dumpster diving. You sift through the garbage hoping to find anything of value.
When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer.
There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.' And what brings me peace is the scripture.
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.
If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.
There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do.
As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.
Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
If something happens to me tomorrow, I'm going to go to Heaven, and that's for sure because God's promised to us in the Bible.
Oddly enough, George Pal always began and ended something with The Bible. All his pictures had a religious undertone. God was always there, protecting us.
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.
