We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas, if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.
Bible Quotes
Isaiah is, upon the whole, a wild, disorderly writer, preserving in general no clear chain of perception in the arrangement of his ideas, and consequently producing no defined conclusions from them. It is the wildness of his style, the confusion of his ideas, and the ranting metaphors he employs, that have afforded so many opportunities […]
But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil: And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stol’n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint when most I play the devil. (Richard III)
I know some people use other versions (other than the KJV), but I call them “perversions.”
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Now, Sir, it is impossible for serious men, to whom God has given the divine gift of reason, and who employs that reason to reverence and adore the God that gave it, it is I say, impossible for such a man to put confidence in a book that abounds with fable and falsehood as the […]
What is the devil doing now? He’s flooding the markets with a rash of counterfeit and corrupted Bibles.
Nobody ever outgrows scripture; the Book widens and deepens with our years.
All this (Paul’s writing) is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Priests and conjurers are of the same trade.
Only a mother would think her daughter has been a good girl when she returns from a date with a Gideon Bible in her handbag.
