Collection Of Biblical Quotes & Sayings

Here was the shattering of the second wall: I had read the Bible many times through, and I saw for myself that it had a holy Author; I saw for myself that it was a canonized collection of sixty-six books with a unified biblical revelation. I heard for myself that when the words "this is mine" came out of my mouth in congregational singing, I was attesting to this one, simple truth: that the line of communication that God ordained for his people required this wrestling with Scripture, and that I truly wanted both to hear God's voice breathed in my life, and I wanted God to hear my pleas. The fog burned away. The whole Bible, each jot and tittle, was my open highway to a holy God. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

The Lives of the Poets are, on the whole, the best of Johnson's works. The narratives are as entertaining as any novel. The remarks on life and on human nature are eminently shrewd and profound. The criticisms are often excellent, and, even when grossly and provokingly unjust, well deserve to be studied. For, however erroneous they may be, they are never silly. They are the judgments of a mind trammelled by prejudice and deficient in sensibility, but vigorous and acute. They therefore generally contain a portion of valuable truth which deserves to be separated from the alloy; and, at the very worst, they mean something, a praise to which much of what is called criticism in our time has no pretensions. — Samuel Johnson

Hate the behavior, not the individual. — Laura Wiess

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. — Arthur Bloch

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. — Baruch Spinoza

I thought that when you have more success that you'd feel more buoyed or feel more confident. But in fact my brain has the gift of switching it around and saying, 'Now people are expecting something. Now you're really going to let people down.' — Maria Bamford

Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor. — Elizabeth Gilbert

To a certain extent, Darwinian gradualism is not much different from biblical creationism. This too is a collection of assumptions that has evolved into a belief system. The core idea advanced in the theory of evolution, the allegation that species have evolved along the time into different ones by the way of acquiring additional parts or by modifying the existing ones is based on an infinite of missing links, as in missing evidence, and on blind belief in the miracles of gradualism and natural selection. — Paul Greene

Bauer's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now coming to recognise, after half a century, is the ablest and most complete collection of the difficulties of the Life of Jesus which is anywhere to be found. — Albert Schweitzer