50+ Favorite Quotes about the Bible
I’ve been collecting quotes on a variety of topics ever since an English teacher in high school started each class by writing some pithy saying on the black board for her students to copy into a quote journal we kept all year. I continued the practice by listing favorite Christian living quotes in the back of my Bible. And today, I’m sharing over 50 of my favorite quotes about God’s Word. Enjoy!
50+ Favorite Quotes about the Bible
“Time cannot bend the line which God hath writ.”
– H. D. Thoreau
“You are writing a Gospel, a chapter each day,
– Author Unknown
By the deeds that you do and the words that you say.
Men read what you write – distorted or true –
What is the Gospel, according to you?”
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.”
– Matthew 24:35
“Conscience does its best work only when it has been sharpened by the Word of God.”
– Author Unknown
“The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed.”
– Patrick Henry
“Reading the Bible without meditating on it is like trying to eat without swallowing.”
– Author Unknown
“The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.”
– Thomas Paine
“All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness….”
– 2 Timothy 3:16-17
“Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Oh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture, and to let it be sucked up in your very soul, till it saturates your heart!”
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.”
– Martin Luther
“One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.”
– Leonard Ravenhill
“The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.”
– A. W. Tozer
“The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.”
– Charles Dickens
“When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ.”
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne
“Knowing the Word of God does not necessarily mean that we know the God of the Word.”
– Chip Brogden
“For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”
– Romans 15:4-5
“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”
– George Washington
“I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.”
– John Quincy Adams
“I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book that you can by reason and the balance by faith, and you will live and die a better man. It is the best Book which God has given to man.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“If there is anything in my thoughts or style to commend, the credit is due to my parents for instilling in me an early love of the Scriptures.”
– Daniel Webster
“Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.”
– John Ruskin
“The word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress.”
– Billy Graham
“The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus.”
– George MacDonald
“When you read God’s Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself,
‘It is talking to me, and about me.’”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“There is no word so piercing, no witness so authoritative, as a well-chosen Scripture driven home by the Spirit.”
– Author Unknown
“So shall My Word be which goes forth from My mouth: it shall not return to me empty,
without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.”
– Isaiah 55:11
“I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount.”
– Martin Luther
“They received the word with great eagerness,
– Acts 17:11
examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.”
“The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.”
– George Muller
“I know of no form of intake of the Word which pays greater dividends for the time invested than Scripture memory.”
– Dawson Trotman
“The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge but to change our lives.”
– Dwight L. Moody
“The key to usefulness, to revelation, and to a Holy Spirit filled life is obedience to the Word of God.”
– John G. Mitchell
“Stay in the Book. Stay on your knees.
– David Drake
Stay after souls.”
“The Bible was written that we might understand and obey its truth for the glory of God. Do not worry about what you do not understand. Practice what you do understand, and God will give you further revelation.”
– Author Unknown
“The Bible is the best gift God has given to men. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book. But for it, we could not know right from wrong.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“The Bible is the only book whose author is always present when one reads it.”
– Author Unknown
“A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.”
– Charles H. Spurgeon
“Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.”
– J.C. Ryle
“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”
– Ronald Reagan
“The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.”
– Isaiah 40:8
“The Bible is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.”
– Author Unknown
“The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation of life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!”
– Benjamin Rush
“For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”
– Hebrews 4:12
“These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”
– Deuteronomy 6:6-7
“When in doubt pull your Bible out.”
– Author Unknown
“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“If you are ignorant of God’s Word, you will always be ignorant of God’s will.”
– Billy Graham
“Don’t say God is silent, when your Bible is closed.”
– Author Unknown
“The Bible will keep you from sin,
– Dwight L. Moody
or sin will keep you from the Bible.”
“Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.”
– J. C. Ryle
“Fill your mind with God’s Word and you will have no room for Satan’s lies.”
– Author Unknown
“But he answered, “It is written, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.”
– Matthew 4:4
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