The thing is, that the Bible, whether you consider it as a collection of fables, transmuted through the golden mists of an elder time, or as a system of ethics, or as a profession of faith, is the most convincing and comprehensive record of human experience and aspiration that exists in the world.
Bible Quotes
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe.
I doubt if there is in the world a single problem, whether social, political, or economic, which would not find ready solution if men and nations would rule their lives according to the plain teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
If there is a God, I want to thank Him for the Gideons, whoever they are. I have dealt with some of His other messengers and found them utterly useless. But not the Gideons. They have saved me many times, when nobody else could do anything but mutter about calling Security on me unless I […]
The New Testament, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essences of fairy stories. This is different from all the others because it has “entered history.” Unlike the other stories there is no tale ever told that men would rather find true, to reject it leads either to sadness […]
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
Because the Bible is a command word, it is not designed nor does it seek to satisfy our curiosity, but rather to declare God’s purpose and law, and to command our faith in and obdience thereto. The command word of a sovereign God can only be an infallible word, and a law word. The Bible […]
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” we closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
