Quotes on The Bible & the Word of God

Christian quotes on The Bible & the Word of God — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.

[The Bible is] shallow enough for a child not to drown, yet deep enough for an elephant to swim.

Augustine of Hippo

A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.

Unknown

The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.

John Charles Ryle

The Bible is almost bursting with good news for bad people.

Corrie ten Boom

I read the Bible the way I harvest my apple tree: I shake it, and what falls down and is ripe, I take. The rest I leave hanging for now.

Martin Luther

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

Martin Luther

The law is divine and holy. Let the law have its glory, but yet no law, be it never so divine and holy, ought to teach me that I am justified, and shall live through it. I grant it may teach me that I ought to love God and my neighbor; also to live in love, soberness, patience, etc., but it ought not to show me how I should be delivered from sin, the devil, death, and hell. Here I must take counsel of the gospel. I must hearken to the gospel, which teaches me, not what I ought to do but what Jesus Christ the Son of God hath done for me: that He suffered and died to deliver me from sin and death. The gospel wills me to receive this, and to believe it. And this is the truth of the gospel. Most necessary it is, therefore, that we should know this article well, teach it unto others, and beat it into their heads continually.

Martin Luther

Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.

Madeleine L'Engle

If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.

Desmond Tutu

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

Hudson Taylor

He wants to wrap me early with his word and light, to promise and to fulfill, so that I lack nothing; he will pay me full wages, not asking whether I fail. His word will shine bright, however dark the day may be!

Jochen Klepper

Often I close the Bible and fold my hands: that people are held so high and precious before God!

Matthias Claudius

As children play with diamonds and pearls as if they were shards of glass and pebbles, so we toss around biblical terms and no longer sense what tremendous things are being said to us in them!

Werner de Boor

I don't know how I would have survived the time after the accident without the Bible knowledge from Sunday school, though before that I had no idea what a great foundation the Bible is.

Samuel Koch

We must not read the Gospel as the lawyer reads a will, but as the rightful heir reads it.

Isaac Newton

Even today I still suckle at the Lord's Prayer like a child, drink and eat from it like an old man, and can never get enough of it.

Martin Luther

A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, a funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.

Bernard Ramm

Read the Scripture, not only as a history, but as a love-letter sent to you from God.

Thomas Watson

If we ask how we can begin a life with God, the Bible answers that God has long since begun a life with us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When I am in a difficult situation, I read the Bible until a text stands out telling me: I was written especially for you.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Bible is not a textbook. Nor is it a manual to be studied, mastered, and mechanically applied. Instead, I believe we should listen to the Word of God and reflect upon it like poetry till it infiltrates the soul.

Eugene Peterson

The Word through whom all things were made is now the Word through whom all things are remade.

N.T. Wright

Throughout the Bible, in fact, God shows a marked preference for “real” people over “good” people.

Philip Yancey

The gospel is not just the ABCs but the A to Z of the Christian life.

Tim Keller

The message of the Bible is that the human race is a band of exiles trying to come home. The parable of the prodigal son is about every one of us.

Tim Keller

I owe the best Bible translation to my mother. She translated the Bible into life.

John Thiessen

If you keep your ear long enough on God's word, you can hear his heart beat.

Kyrilla Spiecker

To say that you love God but are not interested in theology is like saying you love your wife but are not interested in knowing anything about her.

Scott Redd

Have you ever noticed what Jesus said would choke the word He puts in? The devil? No, the cares of this world. It is the little worries always.

Oswald Chambers

If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine of Hippo

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

Augustine of Hippo

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

Billy Graham

Holy Scripture is a river in which an elephant must swim and a lamb can walk.

Martin Luther

Law is what we are to do; but gospel is what God wants to give.

Martin Luther

Scripture is like a river, so shallow that a lamb can wade in it, and so deep that an elephant can swim in it.

Gregory the Great

Holy Scripture is a wondrous little herb: the more you rub it, the more it releases its fragrance.

Martin Luther

When I don't understand a passage in the Bible, I take off my hat and walk on.

Martin Luther

One in a hundred reads the Bible; the other 99 read the Christian.

D.L. Moody

Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.

D.L. Moody

Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

People quoted here

Augustine of Hippo, Unknown, John Charles Ryle, Corrie ten Boom, Martin Luther, Madeleine L'Engle, Desmond Tutu, Hudson Taylor, Jochen Klepper, Matthias Claudius, Werner de Boor, Samuel Koch

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