David Novak Quotes

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man.

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.

The word for knowledge appears in the Koran more often than any other except God.

Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.

Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.

Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionably a training manual. However, He has many interpreters, and few people see the Bible as a true training manual.

God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of beliefs assessable to anyone upon reflection.

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

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

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

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

I don't worship the Bible, I worship the God who gave the Bible.

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.

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

I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon that which is found in the scriptures. Rather, I prefer to dwell with the source, tasting of the unadulterated waters of the fountain of truth - the word of God as he gave it and as it has been recorded in the books we accept as scripture.

We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.

A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.