#bible

They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open. ↗

— Victoria Jackson

#crack #desperately #lives #meaning #open

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology. ↗

— Richard King

#many #mythology #other #religious #teachings

It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#bible #clergymen #deeply #effort #everywhere

The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#bible #both #concerning #creation #creator

The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#chapters #clear #concerning #earth #god

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#alone #been #bible #books #hamlet

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. ↗

— George Santayana

#inspiration #source #those #understand #who

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study. ↗

— Philip Schaff

#affording #bible #child #class #culture

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#aspirations #bible #distribution #fears #hopes

the whole Bible is itself a missional phenomenon. The writings that now comprise our Bible are themselves the product of and witness to the ultimate mission of God. The Bible renders to us the story of God's mission through God's people in their engagement with God's world for the sake of the whole of God's creation. The Bible is the drama of this God of purpose engaged in the mission of achieving that purpose universally, embracing past, present and future, Israel and the nations, "life, the universe and everything," and with its centre, focus, climax, and completion in Jesus Christ. Mission is not just one of a list of things that the Bible happens to talk about, only a bit more urgently than some. Mission is, in that much-abused phrase, "what it's all about. ↗

— Cristopher J.H. Wright

#mission #life