If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we’re going?
Bible Quotes
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New – the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.
When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn’t know.
I am a creature of a day. I am a spirit come from God, and returning to God. I want to know one thing: the way to heaven. God himself has condescended to teach me the way. He has written it down in a book. Oh, give me that book! At any price give me […]
There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is – in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree – it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell. […]
I’m a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.
Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness… It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.
The total absence of humor in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature
It (the Bible) is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.
