Skeptic Bible Quotes & Sayings

I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage. — Bill Burr

I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague. — Romola Garai

Nevertheless, should you have any doubts that we are stating sound doctrines, look up the references and see exactly what the Bible says and believe it in preference to any man. You cannot go wrong with this kind of advice. But in doing this, be sure you adhere to what is written, and that you do not let preconceived ideas cause you to be biased on any point. Do not try to make the Bible conform to your ideas. Always reconcile your ideas to the Bible. Let the plain language of the references given be read and understood in the same literal way that we would understand similar statements in any other book — Finis Jennings Dake

It perplexed him, how someone about to play God could pray to Him, but it clearly didn't bother his friend. — Victoria Schwab

Invariably, I will be referred to Gleason Archer's massive Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, a heavy volume that seeks to provide the reader with sound explanations for every conceivable puzzle found within the Bible - from whether God approved of Rahab's lie, to where Cain got his wife. (Note to well-meaning apologists: it's not always the best idea to present a skeptic with a five-hundred-page book listing hundreds of apparent contradictions in Scripture when the skeptic didn't even know that half of them existed before you recommended it.) — Rachel Held Evans

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches. — Charles Bukowski

We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary. — Leon Trotsky

All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you would be done by." It has one or 2 flaws, but it is a good soundbite. Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things. — Terry Pratchett

I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for? — Marcus Aurelius

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) — Abraham Lincoln