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

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It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests an...

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The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those ac...

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It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God...

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The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have affl...

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We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and n...

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Thomas PaineThe life and writings of Thomas Paine

I'd be willing to bet that the notion of the end of time is more common today in the secular world t...

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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made Englan...

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It is only right and proper to be moved by the Bible, but present-day reality has so strong a hold o...

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A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece o...

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The soul, in its loneliness, hopes only for "salvation." And yet what is the burden of the Bible if ...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral bo...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

To see what God is like, we must look at Jesus. He perfectly represents God to men in a form which t...

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William BarclayThe Letters to the Philippians

The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

The only part of evolution in which any considerable interest is felt is evolution applied to man. A...

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Why, these men would destroy the Bible on evidence that would not convict a habitual criminal of a m...

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So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, fo...

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Why is it so hard to get people to study the Scriptures? Common sense tells us what revelation comma...

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It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that ...

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Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

The holy word is story, and story is the holy word.

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Yann MartelThe High Mountains of Portugal

[..] as midnight inevitably came and went without the horsemen of the apocalypse making an appearanc...

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The book in my hands became my trusted companion. What was written there had so much power that it f...

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Íngrid BetancourtEven Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

President Josiah Bartlet: Good. I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an abomination.D...

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Aaron SorkinThe West Wing Script Book

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, th...

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Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die ...

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In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to ma...

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But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the ...

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The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible...

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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk...

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One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously but to take it seriously one must be already mad.

The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

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

The marvel of our Bible never shows more marvellous than at such times, when you see it in deed and ...

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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales a...

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...Cast yourself upon, abandon yourself to this Christ who lived that life of utter surrender to God...

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There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah,...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith