#bible

One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#atheism #bible #religion #religion

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

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

— Walter Cronkite

#bible #column #journalism #magazine #objective

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

A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; / he who finds one finds a treasure. / A faithful friend is beyond price, no sum can balance his worth. / A faithful friend is a life-saving remedy, such as he who fears God finds; / for he who fears God behaves accordingly, / and his friend will be like himself. ↗

— Anonymous

#friendship #god #inspirational #loyalty #faith

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. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#africa #bible #came #closed #eyes

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. ↗

— John Wooden

#against #art #be true #bible #blessings

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine? ↗

— Marguerite Young

#been #bible #experimental #influenced #saint

Jesus Christ will be the leader of an intergalactic earth evacuation. We're getting some earth leaders up there to check the mother ship. The Bible says that the sky will be glorious and Christ will come back to us all. ↗

— Nina Hagen

#bible #check #christ #come #earth

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#artistic #beauty #bible #chinese #every