Bible Study Quotes

“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”
― Bernard Branson

“The most important thing we can pray about for others is that they will know God better and that He will help them understand His will, grow in spiritual wisdom, and live lives that honor Him. We can pray that they will become more like Him and bear the fruit of His Spirit.”
― Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying® Woman Bible: Prayer and Study Helps by Stormie Omartian

“Real faith comes when you facing a problem you can't help, you can't change, and you can't work it out”
― Cynthia A. Patterson, It Had to Happen

“The Holy Scriptures are to be read constantly, memorized, treated as more important than gold and silver. We should esteem the Scriptures more than our daily food. God's Words should be our delight and hope.”
― Greg Gordon, Principles for the Gathering of Believers Under the Headship of Jesus Christ

“The greatest literature is the Biblical stories.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“It is also striking and worth noting that this apocalyptic message comes to be toned down, and then virtually eliminated, and finally preached against (allegedly by Jesus!) in our later sources. And it is not hard to figure out why. If Jesus predicted that the imminent apocalypse would arrive within his own generation, before his disciples had all died, what was one to think a generation later when in fact it had not arrived? One might conclude that Jesus was wrong. But if one wanted to stay true to him, one might change the message that he proclaimed so that he no longer spoke about the coming apocalypse. So it is no accident that our final canonical Gospel, John, written after that first generation, no longer has Jesus proclaim an apocalyptic message. He preaches something else entirely. Even later, in a book like the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus preaches directly against an apocalyptic point of view (sayings 2, 113). As time went on, the apocalyptic message came to be seen as misguided, or even dangerous. And so the traditions of Jesus’s preaching were changed. But in our earliest multiply attested sources, there it is for all to see.”
― Bart D. Ehrman, How Jesus Became God

“If you think about it, a book is like food for your mind. When you look at it that way, a novel could be like a cupcake. But it could also be a pot roast, or a chicken salad, or a vegetable salad. In this case, reading a book is also like eating food. And, simply put: Eating food is often a delicious activity. And reading a book is often a delightful activity.”
― Cormac McCarthy

“The Gospel of Mark has some major shortcomings: It contains no birth narrative; it implies that Jesus, a repentant sinner, became the Son of God only at his baptism; it recounts no resurrection appearances; and it ends with the very unsatisfactory notion that the women who found the Empty Tomb were too afraid to speak to anyone about it. Moreover, Mark includes very little of Jesus' teachings; worse yet, (from Matthew's point of view) he even misunderstood totally the purpose of Jesus' use of parables. Indeed, by the last two decades of the first century, Mark's theology seemed already old-fashioned and even slightly suggestive of heresy. So, working apparently without knowledge of each other, within perhaps twenty or thirty years after Mark, two authors (or Christian groups), now known to us as "Matthew" and "Luke" (and even a third, in the view of some-"John') set about rewriting and correcting the first unsatisfactory Gospel.”
― Alan Dundes University of California, Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore

“The goal of every serious Bible study should not be to simply know the Scriptures, but to apply them.”
― Curtis Ferrell, Dual Citizenship: Living as a Christian in America

“For it is established by God's Word that God does not lie, nor does His word lie.”
― Martin Luther

“How can you trust God who is not true to his word? Isn’t that what the Bible is?

Because God is larger than a platitude. A platitude is sweet, concise, and fits on a throw pillow. God is larger than that. With the sufferings in my life, I need more than a platitude. I need this Larger Story God I’ve come to know.”
― Brenda Seefeldt Amodea, Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access

“He was a bit of a rabble-rouser. A gadfly. The Son of Man had a mischievous side. You don't get crucified for being a people pleaser.”
― John Mark Comer

“Truly, it was at my darkest that Jesus felt nearest. It was in my sorrow that the Man of Sorrows stood by me. It was in my wordless groanings that our High Priest interceded for me. It was in my aimless wanderings that my Good Shepherd sought me. It was in my defenselessness that the Lion of Judah roared His protection over me.

It was in that dark night of the soul that the theological truths I'd learned about Jesus as a little girl in Sunday School took on real flesh-and-blood meaning for me.

I wouldn't choose the darkness again, but I won't waste it either.”
― Asheritah Ciuciu, Delighting in Jesus: Rhythms to Restore Joy When You Feel Burdened, Broken, or Burned-Out

“You must read the scriptures yourself to know its pure words.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“If our reading of the Bible focuses our eyes on anyone other than God, we have gotten backwards the transformation process.
(ch. 1)”
― Jen Wilkin, Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

“You can trust the divine words written as Holy Scriptures.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Since I began seeking God first, joy and peace have stopped being things I long for but are blessings I now experience. No matter what’s going on in my life or the world.”
― Anita Keagy, Seeking God First: A Practical Plan for Finding Joy and Peace in Him

“To be able to honestly say, ‘I am seeking God,’ a believer needs to move beyond giving God mere nods of notice. She must actively, continuously, and persistently express a real desire to know Him by thoroughly anchoring herself in Scripture.”
― Anita Keagy, Seeking God First: A Practical Plan for Finding Joy and Peace in Him

“Never doubt in the dark what God told you in the light.”
― Anita Keagy, Seeking God First: A Practical Plan for Finding Joy and Peace in Him

“Between Genesis and Revelation, the two ends of the Bible, there is a wide gap, a broad span. What bridges this gap? The bridge is the Gospel of John. The book of John opens with the words, “In the beginning.” However, if you read this gospel carefully, you will discover that the history recorded in it has no end. Hence, it starts from the beginning in eternity past and it continues indefinitely into the future. Thus, it bridges the span between Genesis and Revelation….If you want to know the meaning of the Bible, you cannot stay away from the Gospel of John. The key to the whole Bible is in this book.”
― Witness Lee, Life-Study of John

“, Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you.”
Genes i s 1 3 : 17 NASB
“Remember that you do not support the root,
but the root supports you.”
Romans 1 1 : 1 8
“To the place that I love, there my feet take me.”
Talmud Bavli , Seder Mo’ed, Sukkah 5 3a
“Palestine is no more of this work-day world.
It is sacred to poetry and tradition – it is dream-land.”
Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad”
― Mark Twain

“Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you.”
Genesis 13:17 NASB
“Remember that you do not support the root,
but the root supports you.”
Romans 11:18
“To the place that I love, there my feet take me.”
Talmud Bavli , Seder Mo’ed, Sukkah 53a
“Palestine is no more of this work-day world.
It is sacred to poetry and tradition – it is dream-land.”
Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad”
― Mark Twain

“The words in the Bible are not just words; they are God’s words. Something happens when you read the Bible as opposed to any other piece of literature. It is almost too complicated to explain, but there is a simple concept that sums up the complexity of the matter. Ask yourself this question: “If I read the Bible every day for a year, for fifteen minutes a day, how would my life be different?” Pause right now and ask yourself this question. If you have never read the Bible before, dream about what this might mean for you.”
― Steven Kolberg, Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy

“Sometimes it's not about your why, but having faith in God's why.”
― Courtney McElvain, Move Into Meaning: Essential Spiritual Exercises for a Fulfilled Life

“Speak scripture while you worship. It scares the living daylights out of the enemy.”
― Betsy Wise, Book of Ephesians Bible Study: A Christian Ministry Manual: Plus 55 Rules of Life and 47 Study Questions

“In a world consumed by screens, let's not forget the pages that hold eternal life. May our Bibles be our guiding light, our source of wisdom, and our shelter in times of need. Let's prioritize God's Word above the noise of the digital age and find solace in His presence. As we navigate the digital landscape, may our hearts remain anchored in faith, hope, and joy. By seeking God first, we'll find peace that surpasses the nature of this world.”
― Shaila Touchton

“My Jesus is the only source of true freedom, the kind of soul-deep freedom that transcends the machinations of man and overpowers the schemes of the enemy.
(Day 126 of My Jesus: Reflections of the Redeemer)”
― Janice K Powell, My Jesus: Reflections of the Redeemer

“I need say no more for now. Many, many helpful books have been written on this whole subject. I only wish to let a wild, warm enthusiasm flow from my heart down my arm to flood from my pen on to the paper. Bible study has torn apart my life and remade it. That is to say that God, through his Word, has done so. In the darkest periods of my life when everything seemed hopeless, I would struggle in the grey dawns of many faraway countries to grasp the basic truths of Scripture passages. I looked for no immediate answers to my problems. Only did I sense intuitively that I was drinking drafts from a fountain that gave life to my soul.

Slowly as I grappled with textual and theological problems, a strength grew deep within me. Foundations cemented themselves to an other-worldly rock beyond the reach of time and space, and I became strong and more alive. If I could write poetry about it I would. If I could sing through paper, I would flood your soul with the glorious melodies that express what I have found. I cannot exaggerate for there are no expressions majestic enough to tell of the glory I have seen or of the wonder of finding that I, a neurotic, unstable, middle-aged man have my feet firmly planted in eternity and breathe the air of heaven. And all this has come to me through a careful study of Scripture.”
― John White, The Fight: A Practical Handbook to Christian Living

“It hardly matters that the bible is the most printed book in the world, because no other religion has systematically burnt mountains upon mountains of human literature, to hawk its scripture as the one true word of god.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Bible is the most hypocritical scripture on earth, not because it doesn't contain any good, it contains just as much good as the next scripture, but no other scripture except the bible has an industrial religious complex behind it committing despicable crimes, either proudly in the name of god, or behind closed doors, to a scale unsurpassed by any other religious clergy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot