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You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, ...

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Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited e...

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In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go t...

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It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor's wife should cut them all out and p...

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If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very diffe...

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Marilynne RobinsonWhen I Was a Child I Read Books

If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no...

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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice change...

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The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experie...

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In your country and mine we should have the privilege of making fun of this kind of morality, but it...

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Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to las...

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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a...

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It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do und...

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That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

Wherever he found his speech growing too modern -- which was about every sentence or two -- he ladle...

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A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have m...

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Mark TwainThe Mysterious Stranger

I have covenanted with my Lord that He should not send visions, or dreams or even angels! I am conte...

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Everything bad in the Old Testament (and there's a lot) is there to point out our sin, while everyth...

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There is talk of a new astrologer [Nicolaus Copernicus] who wants to prove that the earth moves and ...

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ON GETTING DRUNK:"Those who are Christians are to see to it that they are grateful for grace and red...

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I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligen...

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The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants ar...

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Martin LutherOn Christian Liberty

Once I told Ha�anala about the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. . . . I told her how Abraham bargained ...

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The poor you will always have with you,' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?

Prophets often foretold destruction and sometimes the destruction did not come, yet this did not dis...

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Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

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Matthew HenryMatthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

The big news of the Bible is not that you fight for God but that God fights for you.

Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of w...

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Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of w...

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If the Bible is called the Good Book, it's not because its people are. Blood flows as freely through...

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Max LucadoHe Chose the Nails

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the m...

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There were no oceans on Oasis, no large bodies of water, and presumably no fish. He wondered whether...

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Michel FaberThe Book of Strange New Things

To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop th...

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N.T. WrightSimply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still...

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N.T. WrightSimply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

The Bible is the story so far in the true novel that God is still writing.

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N.T. WrightSimply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

The only sure rule is to remember that the Bible is indeed God's gift to the church, to equip that c...

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N.T. WrightSimply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

The author extols the power of having significant portions of God's Word read in public worship with...

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N.T. WrightSimply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

Layer upon layer it comes, dense and rich within the texts, echo upon echo, allusion and resonance t...

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N.T. WrightSimply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should...

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N.T. WrightThe Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture

Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualis...

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N.T. WrightThe Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture

Juanita believes that nothing is provably true or provably false in the Bible. Because if it's prova...

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You know that passage in the Bible that says, “And the meek shall inherit the Earth”? Always wondere...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...

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It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine so...

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...the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.

One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is ...

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I won't stay inwith married menany moresaid the wise girlthey're too agreeable,it's a little too muc...

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If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mi...

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Themes of descent often turn on the struggle between the titanic and the demonic within the same per...

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Northrop FryeWords with Power: Being a Second Study of the Bible and Literature

It’s there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees—knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowled...

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O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear ...

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

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice...

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We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bi...

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We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are j...

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We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because ...

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I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in...

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We may reconcile ourselves to the world at our peril, but it will never reconcile itself to us. . . ...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything b...

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To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect o...

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The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and p...

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I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can "prove" anything fro...

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In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

Consider the enormity of the problem. Science has proved that the universe exploded into being at a ...

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There is a strange ring of feeling and emotion in these reactions [of scientists to evidence that th...

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Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation, but they are driven by ...

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Now we see how the astronomical evidence supports the Biblical view of the origin of the world. The ...

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A lot of these liberal churches that harbor illegal immigrants who are criminals say they are follow...

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Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least, we...

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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

The irony of informing nearly naked people in a wilderness setting about the story of naked Adam and...

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Sarah VowellThe Wordy Shipmates

The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true socia...

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Well, he'd get help from the Bible. It was all inspired, every word, no matter what scoffers like Ji...

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The Bible is the Word of God: supernatural in origin, eternal in duration, inexpressible in valor, i...

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In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times...

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After Jesus showed up, the Old Testament basically became a way for Bible publishers to keep their w...

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If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in t...

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The Bible depicts a world that, seen through modern eyes, is staggering in its savagery. People ensl...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good peopl...

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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it ...

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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We preten...

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Søren KierkegaardProvocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for exco...

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When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind o...

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Thomas GoodwinWhat Happens When I Pray

Where God gives opportunity for preaching it is more than likely that he has some people to convert....

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The astonishment soon passed off, the scales seemed to drop from his eyes, and the book became at on...

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Thomas HughesTom Brown's Schooldays

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions...

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Thomas PaineThe Age of Reason

What is it the Bible teaches us? — repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us?...

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I have furnished myself with a Bible and Testament; and I can say also that I have found them to be ...

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There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking ...

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