#bible

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible. ↗

— Max Muller

#banished #begins #bible #chapters #clear

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#books #cite #covers #deadly #enlightenment

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#commandment #done #every #express #god

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#argument #because #bible #cannot #does

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting. ↗

— Rob Portman

#code #interesting #longer #nearly #nine

If you look in the Bible there's no birthdays. ↗

— Prince

#birthdays #look #you

The Bible is a study guide for social interaction. ↗

— Prince

#guide #interaction #social #social interaction #study

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#anthropology #before #bible #decision #existential

Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#back #bible #blessed #call #called

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#based #bible #concepts #findings #fit