Quotes -- Christianity -- Bible
(Favorite Collection)



  1. Stop dwelling on past events and brooding over days gone by.
    I am about to do something new; this moment it will unfold.
    Can you not perceive it?
    Even through the wilderness I shall make a way,
    and paths in the barren desert.
         -- Isaiah 43:18-19


  2. Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead.
         -- Philippians 3:13 (NLT)


  3. 22But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit is

    • love,
    • joy,
    • peace,
    • patience [longsuffering],
    • kindness,
    • goodness,
    • faithfulness,
    • 23gentleness and
    • self-control.

    Against such things there is no law.

          -- Paul to the Galatians (Galatians 5:22-23, NIV)


  4. "... we do not preach ourselves ..." -- Paul to the Corinthians (read more)


  5. Peter's healing of the lame man   --   PDF   RTF


  6. Who is a God like you?
    You take away guilt, you forgive the sins of the remnant of your people.
    You do not let your anger rage forever, for to be merciful is your true delight.
    Once more you will show us your compassion and wash away our guilt,
    casting all our sins into the depths of the sea.
         -- Micah 7:18-19


  7. As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
         -- Proverbs 23:7 (KJV)


  8. A bright look brings joy to the heart.
         -- Proverbs 15:30 (KJV)


  9. Talent is God-given, be humble;
    Fame is man-given, be thankful;
    Conceit is self-given, be careful.
         -- John Wooden


  10. "The Earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching." Allegedly this came from an Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BCE. However I seem to recall that an almost identical message was said to have appeared as graffiti on a wall in Pompeii.
         -- http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrld.htm


  11. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
         -- 2 Peter 1:20-21, KJV


  12. The prophecies are to be unintelligible to the ungodly but intelligible to those who are properly instructed.
         -- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662 CE)


  13. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me ... Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels ...
         -- Matthew 25:34-45


  14. Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
         -- Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip


  15. About the time of the end, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamour and opposition.
         -- Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727 CE)


  16. Sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned!
         -- Romans 5:12


  17. Take the snake, the fruit-tree and the woman from the tableau, and we have no fall, no frowning Judge, no Inferno, no everlasting punishment -- hence no need of a Savior. Thus the bottom falls out of the whole Christian theology.
         -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton


  18. ... man is justified by faith without the [necessity of] deeds of the law.
         -- Romans 3:28


  19. Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
         -- James 2:24


  20. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
         -- Galatians 5:6


  21. The whole justification of Jesus' life and death is predicated on the existence of Adam and the forbidden fruit he and Eve ate. Without the original sin, who needs to be redeemed? Without Adam's fall into a life of constant sin terminated by death, what purpose is there to Christianity? None. ... Without Adam, without the original sin, Jesus Christ is reduced to a man with a mission on a wrong planet!
         -- Richard Bozarth


  22. The Pauline Christians derived most of their theological beliefs from the Pauline Epistles and the Gospel of John. To them, Genesis 3 was of paramount importance. They saw in the passage the reasons for "humanity's corrupt nature and desperate existential situation." Paul used the chapter to derive his concept of sin. Later, Augustine used it to develop his idea of original sin -- the belief that all of the generations of humanity (including ourselves) have inherited the sinful behavior of Adam and Eve. Original sin leads naturally to the belief that a gulf exists between humanity and God, and that the natural destination after death for all of humanity is to be eternally tortured in Hell without any hope of mercy or cessation of the pain. The Pauline Christians survived to evolve into modern Christianity. The thousands of Christian denominations and sects now hold various beliefs about how believers can obtain salvation and escape Hell.
         -- http://www.religioustolerance.org/sin_gene.htm



  23. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
         -- Paul to his disciple, Timothy (2 Timothy 3:16-17, KJV)


  24. ... Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
         -- Revelation 15:3b


  25. God is a being of terrific character ... cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.
         -- Thomas Jefferson


  26. If you are a [born-again] Christian, you will go to heaven; If you're following another religion, then by default you will go to Hell.
         -- Radio program "Life on the Edge,"
            sponsored by Focus on the Family, and directed to teens, 2001-MAY-5


  27. If YOU believe in Evolution instead of Jesus, you'll end up in hell.
         -- Chick Publications' gospel tract "Apes, Lies and Ms. Henn."
            sponsored by Focus on the Family, and directed to teens, 2001-MAY-5


  28. For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
         -- Ecclesiastes 9:5 (KJV)


  29. In order that nothing may be wanting to the felicity of the blessed spirits in heaven, a perfect view is granted to them of the tortures of the damned.
         -- St. Thomas Aquinas


  30. God preordained...a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
         -- John Calvin


  31. ... we are asked to believe that God endlessly tortures sinners by the million, sinners who perish because the Father has decided not to elect them to salvation [while they were alive on earth], though he could have done so, and whose torments are supposed to gladden the hearts of believers in heaven. The problems with this doctrine are both extensive and profound.
         -- Clark H. Pinnock


  32. How can Christians possibly project a deity of such cruelty and vindictiveness whose ways include inflicting everlasting torture upon his creatures, however sinful they may have been? Surely a God who would do such a thing is more nearly like Satan than like God, at least by any ordinary moral standards, and by the gospel itself.
         -- Clark H. Pinnock


  33. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
         -- Revelation 20:15


  34. Neither the Christian Ministry, nor the Christian church, are responsible for the doctrine of eternal perdition. It is given in charge to the ministry, and to the Church, by the Lord Christ Himself, in His last commission, as a truth to be preached to every creature.
         -- William Shedd


  35. Christian theology firmly believes that if you do not believe in Jesus you are going to 'burn in Hell.' .... this is a crazy notion that man made up and contradicts what God says in the Jewish Bible.
         -- S. J. Greenstein


  36. That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly, they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
         -- Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274 CE), Summa Theologica


  37. The idea that Jesus is the only way to God or that only those who have been washed in the blood of Christ are ever to be listed among the saved, has become anathema and even dangerous in our shrinking world.
         -- Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong


  38. How will you spend eternity -- Smoking or Nonsmoking?
         -- Floral City United Methodist Church


  39. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: ...Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
         -- Paul to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 2:9-13, KJV)


  40. For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
         -- Paul to the Thessalonians (1 Thessalonians 2:13, KJV)


  41. Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and noble.
         -- Fisher Ames, Massachusetts Congressman (1758-1808)


  42. ... texts from the source we call Holy Scripture have been used in the past to defend the divine right of kings and to oppose the Magna Carta; to condemn Galileo and to assert that the sun does indeed rotate around the earth; to justify slavery, segregation and apartheid; to keep women from being educated, entering the professions, voting or being ordained; to justify war, to persecute and kill Jews; to condemn other world religions; and to continue the oppression and rejection of gay and lesbian people.
         -- Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong


  43. Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
         -- Job 4:17


  44. But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
         -- 1 Peter 5:10


  45. Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
         -- James 1:2-4


  46. Every single thing one sees or hears is an instruction for his conduct in the service of God. This is the idea of spiritual service — to comprehend and discern in all things a way in which to serve God.
         -- The Baal Shem Tov


  47. The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party — and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose. I am almost ready to say that this is probably true — that God wills this contest, and wills that it shall not end yet. By his mere great power, on the minds of the now contestants, He could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest. Yet the contest began. And, having begun He could give the final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest proceeds.
         -- Abraham Lincoln


  48. One can either deny God or try atheism (which fails miserably). Either revelation must be accepted as an axiom or there is no knowledge of God possible (either natural revelation or special revelation). In either case, revelation was given by God, through His Word (either the spoken word in creating the universe, or the Logos and special revelation in the Scriptures). An all-inclusive axiom in this way swallows up all the problems that secular philosophy brings to the table in one swoop. Verbal inspiration cannot be assumed prior to dealing with and understanding the law of non-contradiction. Scripture without logic would have no meaning. This is the point of John 1:1, "In the beginning was [the Logos]." Literally this is logic. Logic was, then, from the beginning. Christ is the eternal logic of God. This logic is made known to men (i.e. it lights every man in his rationale – the image of God is his logic and thinking faculties over the animals (as Pascal said, "All our dignity consists in thought.")), and revealed in the Scripture more specifically. The Bible expresses the mind of God. Philippians 2:5, "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus." The Scriptures give one definiteness and content, without which axioms are useless.

    The Christian religion is not a religion of emotions, but fundamentally it is an acceptance of an intelligible message. Only those immediately worked upon by the power of the Spirit of God can understand this message with a transformed mind (John 3:3) but it is the faith derived from the message of the Bible that establishes what is to be believed.

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