Biblical Quotes

“Richard Dawkins regards faith as an evil to be eliminated; he takes all religious faith to be blind faith. (Dawkins says) ‘Scientific belief is based on publicly checkable evidence, religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its joy, shouted from the rooftops.’ However, taking Dawkins own advice we ask: where is the evidence that religious faith is not based on evidence? Mainstream Christianity will insist that faith and evidence are inseparable. Indeed, faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence. The apostle Paul says what many pioneers of modern science believed, that nature itself is part of the evidence for the existence of God ,‘ Since the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities- his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made. So that men are without an excuse.’ Dawkins’ definition of faith turns out to be the direct opposite of the biblical one. Curious that he does not seem to be aware of the discrepancy.”
― John Lennox

“Once you hit rock bottom, that's where you perfectly stand; That's your chance of restarting, but restarting the right way.”
― Justin Kanayurak

“And so, at least symbolically, the blood of Eve courses through each one of her daughters' veins. We are each associated with life; each subject to the impossible expectations and cruel projections of men; each fallen, blamed, and misunderstood; and each stubbornly vital to the process of bringing something new--perhaps something better--into this world...

We are each an Eve.”
― Rachel Held Evans, A Year of Biblical Womanhood

“We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.”
― Francis Chan, Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit

“Fear” in the biblical sense…includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.”
― Edward T. Welch, When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man

“Her loyalty to Yahweh prompts her to challenge the religious status quo and lead others into a whole new realm of allegiance to Yahweh that carries early hints of the teachings of Jesus.”
― Carolyn Custis James, The Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules

“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
― Romans 12 2 NIV translation.

“They don't think it be like it is but it do”
― Herman Ree

“True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one's body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.”
― Jim George, A Husband After God's Own Heart: 12 Things That Really Matter in Your Marriage

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.”
― Proverbs 3 5 NIV Translation.

“Whenever I'm particularly frustrated by a problem in my life or in my garden, i meditate on the words of St. Paul in his letter to the Galations, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
― Vivian Elisabeth Glyck, 12 Lessons on Life I Learned from My Garden: Spiritual Guidance from the Vegetable Patch

“Fortunately the essence of this revelation did not escape Mary despite the angel's obscure speech, and, much surprised, she asked him, So Jesus is my son and the son of the Lord, Woman, what are you saying, show some respect for rank and precedence, what you must say is the son of the Lord and me, Of the Lord and of you, No, of the Lord and of you, You're confusing me, just answer my question, is Jesus our son, You mean to say the Lord's son because you only served to bear the child, So the Lord didn't choose me, Don't be absurd (...) Is there any real proof that it was the Lord's seed which engendered my first-born, Well, it's a delicate matter, and what you're demanding is nothing less than a paternity test which in these mixed unions, no matter how many analyses, tests, and globule counts one carries out, can never give conclusive results.”
― José Saramago

“God had banished man from the Garden of Eden for daring to trespass upon the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
- But What if man learned to grow his own Tree? Where might it end?
- She didn't knew the answer. She knew only one thing for certain.
Someone had to stop Them”
― James Rollins, Altar of Eden

“One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!”
― Eli Of Kittim, The Little Book of Revelation: The First Coming of Jesus at the End of Days

“Thankfully, life is a journey of progress and not perfection, and we can improve our blurred reflection by taking up the Sword of the Spirit. We can find a healthy dose of just how much God loves us in the Bible and start to have as much respect for ourselves as God has for us.”
― Kristen Clark, Becoming a Woman of Worth: Creating a More Confident You