One Minute Bible Quotes

From its inception patriarchy has relied on salvation narrative to underwrite its program of genocide, ecocide, sexual repression, child abuse, social domination, and spiritual control. This script works beautifully for the dominator agenda because it was deliberately written for it. How can a story about love, forgiveness and divine benevolence endorse the perpetration of evil? This seems impossible and against all reason, until we realize that the story is not what it appears to be. The salvation narrative of the Bible is a story of perpetration, conceived to support and legitimate the dominator agenda.
History shows that the religious ideals attached to salvation narrative have consistently been used to legitimate violence, rape, genocide, and destruction of the natural world…In the final balance the people who commit and promote violence and murder in the expression of religious beliefs may be a minute fraction of the faithful, but they are the ones who determine the course of events, shape history, affect society, and threaten the biosphere…To dissociate from the salvation narrative would be the most effective way for peace-loving people to end their complicity in the dominator agenda. ~ John Lamb Lash

The problem with every sacred text is that it has human readers. Consciously or unconsciously, we interpret it to meet our own needs. There is nothing wrong with this unless we deny that we are doing it, as when someone tells me that he is not 'interpreting' anything but simply reporting what is right there on the page. This is worrisome, not only because he is reading a translation from the original Hebrew or Greek that has already involved a great deal of interpretation, but also because it is such a short distance between believing you possess an error-free message from God and believing that you are an error-free messenger of God. The literalists I like least are the ones who do not own a Bible. The literalists I like most are the ones who admit that they do not understand every word God has revealed in the Bible, though they still believe God has revealed it. I can respect that.

I can respect almost anyone who admits to being human while reading a divine text. After that, we can talk - about we highlight some teachings and ignore others, about how we decide which ones are historically conditioned and which ones are universally true, about who has influenced our reading of scripture and how our social location affects what we hear. The minute I believe I know the mind of God is the minute someone needs to tell me to sit down and tell me to breathe into a paper bag. ~ Barbara Brown Taylor

How would I know what Jesus would have done? That fella was a mass of contradictions as far as I can see. One minute he says to turn the other cheek, the next minute he's having a big strop and kicking over lads' market stalls. He says blessed are the meek and he goes around shouting and roaring the odds to everyone. He rises from the dead and then shags off a few weeks later and leaves his buddies in the shit. ~ Donal Ryan

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. ~ Soren Kierkegaard

It could be that the wildest, strangest things in the Bible were the places where it touched earth. Doane said once that he saw a cyclone cross a river. It took the water in its path up into itself and crossed on dry ground, and it was just as white as a cloud, white as snow. Something like that would only last for a minute, but it showed you what kind of thing can happen. It would shed that water and take up leaves and branches, cats and dogs, cows if it wanted to, grown men, and it would change everything they thought they knew. ~ Marilynne Robinson

I could almost picture how when God was reaching down and closing the door of the ark, Noah might have been in there standing on tiptoe trying to see out for as long as he could. The Bible says Noah was six hundred years old when he went into the ark. I bet he noticed things in that last minute that he hadn't paid any attention at all to for the last five hundred fifty years. I ~ Douglas Kaine McKelvey

Above all the studies in the world, study your own hearts; waste not a minute more of your precious time about frivolous & unsubstantial controversies. My dear flock, I have, according to the grace given me, labored in the course of my ministry among you, to feed you with the heart strengthening bread of practical doctrine, and I do assure you, it is far better you should have the sweet and saving impressions of gospel truths, feelingly and powerfully conveyed to your hearts, than only to understand them by a bare ratiocination, or a dry syllogistical inference. Leave trifling studies to such as have time lying on their hands and know not how to employ it. Remember you are at the door of eternity, and have other work to do. Those hours you spend upon heart-work in your closets, are the golden spots of all your time and will have the sweetest influence up to your last hour. ~ John Flavel

Do you ever wonder why a battered wife stays with her husband? Why people continue to spend money they don't have even though they know they are deeply in debt? Why some keep jamming food in their mouths when they're already overweight? Why do people stay in bad relationships? Why are some people still racist? Why do people still drink and drive? You'd think the response to all these things would be obvious and cause them to scream, "Duh, of course I need to change this." Why do we keep doing church the same way even when we know it's in critical decline? Why do paid church leaders spend so much time preparing for a 90-minute service for Christians who have heard it all before? Why do we still call our message the good news when it clearly seems to be bad news or no news to Sojourners? Why do we think Pharisees are only found in the Bible? Why is returning to a simpler form of ancient church so hard to grasp? ~ Hugh Halter

People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible. ~ John Ortberg

Strange how the perspective changes with the point of view, isn't it? Most people who claim to believe in the Bible don't actually know what it says ~ Karl Wiggins

In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself. ~ Jonathan Clements

Gerd called life 'existing minute by minute'. Every single minute felt like a battle. Time went on but life had stopped. ~ Asne Seierstad

You ought to pray and read the Bible concurrently. You cannot pray effectively without reading the Bible and the vice versa. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible, study the Bible. The Bible is the Word of God, and only the Bible is the Word of God. ~ R.A. Torrey

Sometimes the miracle is simply His mercy. ~ Jane Johnson

Even non-religious folks should read the key Bible stories. It's essential for cultural literacy. Knowing these stories helps in understanding the many Biblical references in literature and art. ~ Kenneth E. Walsh

the more we dig into the bible the deeper our faith gets ~ Stuart Bodin

The Holy Bible is the greatest book. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Using only nonnarrative portions of the Bible to interpret narrative is not only disrespectful to the narrative portions but also suggests a misguided approach to nonnarrative parts of the Bible. ~ Craig S. Keener

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. ~ Dan Savage

2 Timothy 3:16 ALL Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness. ~ Bible Verses

The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose. ~ John Shelby Spong

These Bibles included the Unrighteous Bible, so called from a printer's error which caused it to proclaim, in I Corinthians, "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall inherit the Kingdom of God?"; and the Wicked Bible, printed by Barker and Lucas in 1632, in which the word not was omitted from the seventh commandment, making it "Thou shalt commit Adultery." There were the Discharge Bible, the Treacle Bible, the Standing Fishes Bible, the Charing Cross Bible and the rest. ~ Terry Pratchett

One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament. ~ David Lange

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible. ~ Amy Grant

I study the Bible constantly. I teach the Bible. You know, I'm a Bible conductor, and I have a lot of people studies. But also, I see how small things really help people to get over humps in their life. Gives them direction. ~ George Benson

How can you introduce error into the Bible? Have a human open it. The moment he reads it, the Bible because weighted down with his biases and expectations. ~ Dennis Garvin

Set thy house in order, for thou shalt die and not live." ~ Isaiah 38:1 ~ Bible

Application is why we study the Bible. ~ Elizabeth George

Daily Bible reading, path of light. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That's because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it. ~ Ben Shapiro

It's not the amount of Bible you read, it's the amount of Bible you believe. ~ Carlos A. Rodriguez

I couldn't go over there, man. Once I saw the blood. I'm not good with blood.. It choked me up for a minute. We were laughing and giggling one minute, the next minute, a man's down on the ground, both of them. ~ Cliff Floyd

The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible. ~ Novalis

My unchanging resolution is to read the Holy Scriptures every year. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In many ways, those dedicated to removing all potential biblical contradictions, to making the Bible entirely consistent with itself, are no different from irreligious debunkers of the Bible, Christianity, and religion in general. Many from both camps seem to believe that simply demonstrating that the Bible is full of inconsistencies and contradictions, as I have just done, is enough to discredit any religious tradition that embraces it as Scripture. Bible debunkers and Bible defenders are kindred spirits. ~ Timothy Beal

For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert; the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water ~ Isaiah Bible ESV

In the wake of the Reformation, it was the Bible that reorganized Europe as modern nation-states. Developing vernaculars through Bible translation was only the first step towards linguistic nation-states. The Bible also provided the theological justification for fighting to build independent nation/states such as Holland. ~ Vishal Mangalwadi

I admire the way the Bible defies anybody who wants to nail it on a preferred meaning. There are so many ways to interpret the Bible as there are different opinions about what a certain passage or verse really means. So anybody can go there and read a meaning into (eigesis) whatever passage or verse he wants to suit his inclinations. Proof that the Bible is inspired? It caters for all sorts of people and views. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I believe that a woman who loses interest in her Bible has not been equipped to love it as she should. The God of the bible is too lovely to abandon for lesser pursuits. ~ Jen Wilkin

If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late. ~ Sunday Adelaja

The Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it. ~ Dan Savage

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself. ~ Dwight L. Moody

Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible. ~ J.C. Ryle

The Bible is the only Book in the world that predicts the future. The Bible is more modern than tomorrow morning's newspaper. ~ Billy Graham

We can't afford another Deirdre issue. ~ Jake Bible

The Bible itself is a book that constantly must be wrestled with and re-interpreted ... Bible interpretation is colored by historical context, the reader's bias and current realities. The more you study the Bible, the more questions it raises. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says. ~ Rob Bell

When I read the Bible, the Bible criticizes me, I don't criticize the Bible. ~ R.C. Sproul

Christianity would have lacked a great essence without the Bible. A Christian who seldom devotes a little time to read the Bible is with a great question mark. ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

God's laws for the spiritual world are found in the Bible. Whatever else there may be that tells us of God, it is more clearly told in the Bible. ~ Billy Graham

The Left masks its distaste for the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality in a straw man argument that Bible believers are violent bigots. They are not. Citing the Bible doesn't make you a bigot against human beings - it makes you a bigot against sin, which is a good thing. ~ Ben Shapiro

There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven. Eccl 3:1 ~ Bible. New International Version

We should read the Bible expectantly, systematically, and obediently ... The Bible can change our lives as we read it and obey its teachings every day. ~ Billy Graham

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable. ~ Jerry B. Jenkins

The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God. ~ James Merritt

I'm fighting myself. I know I am. One minute I want to remember. The next minute I want to live in the land of forgetting. One minute I want to feel. The next minute I never want to feel ever again. ~ Benjamin Alire Saenz

Carefully guard your thoughts because they are the source of true life.

Proverbs 4:23 ~ Bible

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible. ~ Karl Barth

I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible."
"Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare. ~ Ellen Raskin

I know many of you would say "What about the Bible?" The Bible says this, the Bible says that, the Bible is the inspired Word of God. I think the Bible is the inspired word of man - about God, and some of that is now expired. ~ Carlton Pearson

Read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of it. There is a Bible in words of one syllable; I am happy to say I have never seen it. Such a monstrosity should be put alongside of the Rhyming Bible, of which, I believe, only one copy is in existence. ~ Laura E. Richards

Who's got no thumbs and totally made best friends with a dragon? This guy!" She ~ Jake Bible

The true Christian was intended by Christ to prove all things by the Word of God: all churches, all ministers, all teaching, all preaching, all doctrines, all sermons, all writings, all opinions, all practices. These are his marching orders. Prove all by the Word of God; measure all by the measure of the Bible; compare all with the standard of the Bible; weigh all in the balances of the Bible; examine all by the light of the Bible; test all in the crucible of the Bible. That which cannot abide the fire of the Bible, reject, refuse, repudiate, and cast away. This is the flag which he nailed to the mast. May it never be lowered! ~ John Wycliffe

The Bible is the most inspired book of all times. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you are told that science has disproved the Bible, ask specifically where such is the case. True science and a true understanding of the Bible are never at variance. ~ Billy Graham

Holy Bible is Holy Bible. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sixty feet of drug fueled shark sped through the water, ready to eat every damn thing in sight. ~ Jake Bible

Promises are like assholes," Elsbeth pipes up. "They stink when you put your nose in them. ~ Jake Bible

One difference between the Bible and the Constitution is that we can still talk to the author of the Bible to discover original intent. ~ Ron Brackin

He put our hands to the table, gave me his beautiful eyes, and whispered back, Minute by minute, baby. ~ Kristen Ashley

True Christianity finds all of its doctrines in the Bible; true Christianity does not deny any part of the Bible; true Christianity does not add anything to the Bible. For many centuries the Bible has been the most available book on the earth. It has no hidden purpose. It cannot be destroyed. ~ Billy Graham

We shouldn't go to the Bible to back up what we believe. We should look to the Bible to determine what we believe. ~ Jayce O'Neal

If we being to ready the Bible daily; we will awake the divinity of our souls. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

One of the reasons AA works is that the individual makes the decision not to drink, one day at a time. One hour. One minute even. You can do that, right? One minute? ... There's one minute. You're stronger than you know, Mrs. Alexander. ~ Tammara Webber

It only takes one minute of bravery. One minute of insane, embarrassingly crazy courage to change your life. Sometimes, it only takes that one minute for something great to happen. ~ Max Monroe

The only way to build a church, if you have a Bible church, is to preach out of the Bible, teach out of the Bible, read out of the Bible. ~ Lester Roloff

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. ~ Isaac Newton

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes. ~ Alice Morse Earle

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
[Matt 5:4] ~ Anonymous

Obviously I was missing the whole picture. Any minute now he would leap up, wrench the two-inch silver alloy bars apart despite the fact that silver was toxic to shapeshifters, and heroically kick Saiman's ass. Any minute now. Any minute. ~ Ilona Andrews

Keep dwelling in the past and you won't see the present. ~ Jake Bible

I am busily engaged in study of the Bible. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Today is the day the Lord has made, be Glad & Enjoy It! ~ Bible Verses

...comfort me with apples for I am sick of love. ~ Bible Verses

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit. ~ Ellen G. White

Commit your work to the Lord, and then your plans will succeed." (Proverbs 16:3). ~ Bible

Man is precisely what the Bible says he is. Human nature is behaving exactly as the Bible said it would. The course of human events is flowing just as Christ predicted. ~ Billy Graham

If you look in the Bible there's no birthdays. ~ Prince

I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year. ~ John Quincy Adams

With each passing minute, I expected her to walk away, and every minute she stayed in my arms felt like a miracle. ~ Jamie McGuire

Do not fear, for I am with you - Isaiah 41:10 ~ Anonymous

When you stop trying to force the Bible to be something it's not--static, perspicacious, certain, absolute--then you're free to revel in what it is: living, breathing, confounding, surprising, and yes, perhaps even magic. ~ Rachel Held Evans

Growing up loving the Bible made me apt to love other books. I don't love them in the same way I love the Bible, but a lesser love came easily. The splendor of sunlight does not take away ~ John Mark Reynolds

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs. ~ Bill Maher

Pray and read your Bible daily. God has all the answers you seek ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As the Constitution is the highest law of the land [in America], so the Bible is the highest law of God. For it is in the Bible that God sets forth His spiritual laws. It is in the Bible that God makes His enduring promises. It is in the Bible that God reveals the plan of redemption for the human race. ~ Billy Graham

Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible. ~ Ronald Reagan

Beginnings are always like this. One minute everything exists, the next minute everything is lost. ~ Haruki Murakami

Arthur sighed and barely managed to whisper, Key ... hold the Hour Hand for ... a minute ... a minute ... ~ Garth Nix

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless. ~ Bill Johnson