All Quotes By Tag: Bible
“We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments.”
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“[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama.”
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“You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, both of them extreme and mutually contradictory. The Old Testament injunction is the one to exact an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth (it occurs in a passage of perfectly demented detail about the exact rules governing mutual ox-goring; you should look it up in its context (Exodus 21). The second is from the Gospels and says that only those without sin should cast the first stone. The first is a moral basis for capital punishment and other barbarities; the second is so relativistic and “nonjudgmental” that it would not allow the prosecution of Charles Manson. Our few notions of justice have had to evolve despite these absurd codes of ultra vindictiveness and ultracompassion.”
“Theologians and other clerks, You won’t understand this book, — However bright your wits — If you do not meet it humbly, And in this way, Love and Faith Make you surmount Reason, for They are the protectors of Reason’s house. ”
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“Life did come with a manual.”
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“A man told me a while ago he could not believe a thing he had never seen. I said, “Man, did you ever see your brain?”
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“Remembering this: weak faith is still faith. Little faith is still faith Pr. Paddick Van Zyl”
“The overarching narrative of the Bible is that of humanity searching for home.”
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“The truth speaks for itself.”
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“To reject the Word of God is to forsake the holy grace.”
“Faye gulped. “I think a real reading of the Bible would lead you to remember that long ago God was the one who shook the waters in the great flood. So I don’t think a little cold water thrown on Him by science is going to scare Him any.”
“Be still, and know that I will always love you.”
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“I can chart my own path. However, I’ve yet to figure out why so many of my paths always seem to lead to the edge of some really big cliffs. Maybe I should consider charting a path out of charting my path.”
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“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns.”
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“To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.”