#bible

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#being #bible #intense #keep #point

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

There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#book #many #misunderstand #mormon #other

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#baptist #bible #grew #i #read

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#god #learn #may #men #mind

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#books #could #good #matter #other

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#alarm #bible #constituencies #end #foreshadowed

The violence in the Bible is appalling. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#bible #violence

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#depends #gentleman #ignorance #inspiration #reads

If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head. ↗

— Anonymous

#courage #enemy #lesson #life #love