#Bible

"If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself."

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."

"When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it."

"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)"

"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."

"Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer."

"May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus, so that with one heart and mouth you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."

"From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story."

"The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God."

"As for biblical or religious theory, I don’t ever want to fight about the details of the story, I want to live the reality of the message."

"Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul."

"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

"Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them."

"If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head."

"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."

"With faith the size of a mustard seed, you can indeed move a mountain, but you can hardly be expected to garnish your sandwich."

"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, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."

"Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written."

"The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals."