Joel C. Rosenberg Quotes

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass.

I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.

I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal to the doctrine of prayer which that same Word illustrates and enforces upon mankind.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.

We are not called upon to enter into controversy with those who hold false theories. Controversy is unprofitable. Christ never entered into it. 'It is written' is the weapon used by the world's Redeemer. Let us keep close to the Word. Let us allow the Lord Jesus and His messengers to testify. We know that their testimony is true.

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word.

The Bible states it. It must be so.

Revealed religion had no weight with me.

When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

I can't change what the word of God says.

And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.

When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.

We must never allow the majority to overrule the clear teaching of the Word of God.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

To ignore Scripture is to ignore Christ.