“And lo I am with you always, even to the very end of the age.”
“For the wages of sin is Death, but the gift of God is everlasting Life in Christ Jesus or LORD.”
“Original sin is a very commercial idea,” said Duyckinck. “How do you think the Bible stays in print year after year?”
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who re so busy worrying about the next world they ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”
“Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.”
“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
“Alcohol may be man s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
“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.”
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.”
“The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.”
“I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)”
“It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”