Sometimes sayings and quotes about the Bible can really cause you pause and think about the vast insights the Holy Scriptures contain. Below you will find many of these thought provoking statements that I pray will cause you to stop after reading each one, and reflect on each nugget of distilled wisdom.
“A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.”― Charles H. Spurgeon
“Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
“The dirtier your Bible, the cleaner your heart!” – Victor Manuel Rivera
“The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.”― Dwight Lyman Moody
“The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.” – Flavel
“Many books can inform you but only the Bible can transform you.”
“Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself, but because it contradicts them.” E. Paul Hovey
“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.” Ronald Reagan
“The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.” Galileo Galilei
“The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.” —Dwight L. Moody
“The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.” Dwight L. Moody
“The Bible is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.”
“In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.” R. C. Sproul, Jr.
“No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.” Theodore Roosevelt
“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 ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it’s the parts that I do understand.”― Mark Twain
“Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.”― Dwight Lyman Moody
“You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilization to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.”― Mahatma Gandhi
“The BIBLE — banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it, dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it. Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it more powerful than their weapons. Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints.” – Charles Colson
“No one ever graduates from BIBLE study until he meets the Author face to face.” – Everett T. Harris
“The BIBLE gives me a deep, comforting sense that ‘things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal.'” – Helen Keller
“Without Divine assistance I cannot succeed; With it I cannot fail!” – Abraham Lincoln
“The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of the BIBLE. The more deeply he works the mine, the richer and more abundant he finds the ore.” – Sir Walter Scott
“The BIBLE fits man for life and prepares him for death.” – Daniel Webster
“All Scripture is God-breathed and He doesn’t waste His breath.” – Jim McCotter
“Bible fever – catch it.” – Curt Blattman1
1 All of the above sayings and quotations are from the following websites:
90 Inspirational Quotes About The Bible (Bible Study Quotes) (biblereasons.com)
Quotes About the Bible: 25 Awesome Sayings (whatchristianswanttoknow.com)
FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT THE BIBLE (internationalwallofprayer.org)