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Bible Quotes (page 14)

As it says in the Bible, For now we through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. If it is face to face, there must be two looking. Margaret Atwood
He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible. Barbara Kingsolver
Nay, nay!” said the Squire. “It’s not so easy to break one’s heart. Sometimes I’ve wished it were. But one has to go on living—‘all the appointed days,’ as is said in the Bible. Elizabeth Gaskell
Penn Jillette quote: "It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of..."
It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza. Penn Jillette
Tallulah Bankhead quote: "If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot..."
If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education. Tallulah Bankhead
I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam. George Carlin
You don’t understand,” getting mad. “You guys, you’re like Puritans are about the Bible. So hung up with words, words. You know where that play exists, not in that file cabinet, not in any paperback you’re looking for, but—” a hand emerged from the veil of shower-steam to indicate his suspended head—“in here. That’s what I’m for. To give the spirit flesh. The words, who cares? They’re rote noises to hold line bashes with, to get past the bone barrier around an actor’s memory, right? But the... Thomas Pynchon
Frank Zappa quote: "Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra..."
Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins? Frank Zappa
Because most Christians want it both ways. They want to be able to proudly declare they are believers in the Bible and yet simply ignore those parts they find too difficult or too inconvenient to believe. Dan Brown
Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain. Chuck Palahniuk
The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals. Christopher Hitchens
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom.... Whittaker Chambers
Jacques Maritain quote: "If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what..."
If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible? Jacques Maritain
In other words, after Winthrop has acquired all his butter firkins, food stirrers, and beer along with six dozen candles, twenty thousand biscuits, and twenty-nine sides of beef, he goes through the Bible and writes down a bunch of verses commanding him to be willing to cheerfully give all that stuff away. My firkin is your firkin being one of Christianity's primary creeds. Sarah Vowell
David Sedaris quote: "The Bible says that it’s all right to cast the first stone if..."
The Bible says that it’s all right to cast the first stone if someone dead is telling you to do it David Sedaris

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