John Darnielle Quotes

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

I want to help people understand how to study the Scriptures with other people, to give them an overview of Scripture and assume that by understanding the Scriptures better, the Holy Spirit will bring to mind the right stories, the right teachings.

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.

If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.

I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.

I've read the Bible before, a couple of times cover to cover.

Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.

As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible.

I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible.

The real Stephen Colbert is a practicing Catholic. He teaches Sunday school. He can recite chapter and verse of chapter and verse - from both the King James Bible and 'The Lord of the Rings.'

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

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 read the entire Old Testament and New Testament.

If you are serious about changing your life, you are going to have to get into the Bible. You need to read it, study it, memorize it, meditate on it, and apply it.

It (the Bible) has never bowed its head before the discoveries of science.

The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.

My wife and I - her more than me - are really strong Christians. Her whole life revolves around studying the Bible, Bible study, after-school Bible class she does for little kids on Wednesdays, teaches Sunday school.

I don't pass myself off as a Bible scholar or a pastor or someone who knows all the biblical facts cover-to-cover. I'm just a guy whose life was changed by it. And that's about the extent of it. So I'm not easily offended when people struggle about where they're at with their faith at all.

I can write 100 books on the wisdom and lessons from stories in the Bible.