#bible

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#call #desert #driven #false #honored

The more you continue to read Scripture, the more you begin to think as He thinks and act as He acts. And that’s how, over time, you gain the wisdom of the ages. ↗

— Wayne Cordeiro

#wisdom #age

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#bible #chart #forgive #how #i

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#being #bible #intense #keep #point

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#bible #column #journalism #magazine #objective

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #bible #culture #emphatically #fiction

Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture. ↗

— Cecil B. DeMille

#bible #give #give me #i #me

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. ↗

— Jack Dee

#bible #cling #closer #commentaries #contented

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#bible #carry #go #like #over

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#acquainted #becoming #been #began #bible