It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
Friedrich NietzscheImagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.
Isaac AsimovTags: science school writing belief home thought ignorance shame bible library the-bible resentment leader bitter childish childish-beliefs guide guides ignore imagine invade leaders uneducated unimaginative unthinking
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas PaineTags: murder belief bible cruelty the-bible cruel rapine
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
Oscar WildeTags: harm writing despair bible book the-bible
All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.
Thomas PaineTags: science christianity religion skepticism the-bible
Daily Bible reading has always been a deep help for daily spiritual growth. But millions of Christians got bogged down and give up by the time they read Leviticus! However, reading 15 minutes a day from The One Year Bible gives you the entire Bible in a year of daily variety, interest, and growth in God.
Kenneth N. TaylorTags: the-bible daily-readings god-s-word new-living-translation nlt nlt-bible nlt-one-year-bible one-year-bible
God did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I have shown in The Essence of Christianity, made God in his image.
Ludwig FeuerbachTags: bible the-bible image in-his-image
For Americans, Acts 16:9 is the high-fructose corn syrup of Bible verses--an all-purpose ingredient we'll stir into everything from the ink on the Marshall Plan to canisters of Agent Orange. Our greatest goodness and our worst impulses come out of this missionary zeal, contributing to our overbearing (yet not entirely unwarranted) sense of our country as an inherently helpful force in the world. And, as with the apostle Paul, the notion that strangers want our help is sometimes a delusion.
Sarah VowellTags: history america the-bible
Acts 16:9 is the meddler's motto, simultaneously selfless and self-serving, generous but stuck-up. Into every generation of Americans is born a new crop of buttinskys sniffing out the latest Macedonia that may or may not want their help.
Sarah VowellTags: history america the-bible
In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.
Emma ForrestTags: life-lessons the-bible jacob
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