Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass. – Edward P. Jones
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. – George Bernard Shaw
Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn’t rule it out of Mr. Bruce’s act if he cares to comment on it. – Dorothy Kilgallen
One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it’s sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what’s in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business. – N. T. Wright
The Bible refers to the Word as ‘the sword of the Spirit.’ What battles are you not winning if you are not equipped with your sword? – Monica Johnson
To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast. You go over the initial script with them and listen to the way they talk. Then you try to do a rewrite to accommodate them. – Dito Montiel
The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character. – Edward McKendree Bounds
My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it’s definitely tough getting through. – Pamela Anderson
When I see someone interesting on the subway – the lady with her new Bible or the delivery guy holding down a dozen Mylar balloons – my mind goes in two different directions. Where are they coming from? And where are they going? – David Ebershoff
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. – Fisher Ames
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I don’t claim to be someone that knows every verse in the Bible. I wish I did. I truly do. It just means I need to spend more time in those pages. – Elisabeth Hasselbeck
The Qur’an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent. – G. Willow Wilson
I have a little pocket Bible that I have with me all the time in my briefcase, and so usually in the mornings, sometimes on the campaign bus or plane, I always try to catch some time to do that regularly. – Mike Huckabee
I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and to do that you had to study linguistics, and so that was my initial exposure to linguistics. – Daniel Everett
The Bible for me is holy writ. It’s a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist. – Marilynne Robinson
The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints. – David Augsburger
The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin. – P. J. O’Rourke
If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible… now there’s the complete package of womanhood. – Phil Robertson
In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn’t instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism. – Elie Wiesel
There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible. – Mark Rylance