Bible Sayings & Quotes
These bible sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. - George Bernard Shaw
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. - Robert Green Ingersoll
Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head. - Henry David Thoreau
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. - Galileo Galilei
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. - George Bernard Shaw
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God. - Daniel Webster
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. - Helen Keller
It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished. - Albert Einstein
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'let us pray'. We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. - Bishop Desmond Tutu
If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today. - Mohandas K. 'Mahatma' Gandhi
The Bible has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. - Mark Twain
The history of every individual man should be a Bible. - Frederick von Hardenburg
The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma. - Abraham Lincoln
Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. - Alexander Pope
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. - Samuel Butler
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. - Fisher Ames
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. - Martin Luther
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours, and I think probably gave me many nightmares. - Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. - Harper Lee
The Bible is literature, not dogma. - George Santayana
Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. - Alfred North Whitehead
My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small. - John Wesley