Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

I'm on the record as saying things like I think it's important for people to understand their Bible stories, not because I'm an advocate of religion - clearly, I'm not - but once again, what comes from the Bible has formed such an important part of our culture.

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.

What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to know the Bible but it is just hard to understand the big picture of it. And number two, they want to know where they plug in.

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

There's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance.

I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.

No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

If you are ignorant of God's Word, you will always be ignorant of God's will.

In the decade of the 1980s, a massive and comprehensive study of religion in American life was undertaken by the Gallup organization. The results of the study were as terrifying as they were revealing. Americans, even evangelical Americans, are woefully ignorant of the content of Scripture and even more ignorant of the history of Christianity and classical Christian theology.

There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.

Having knowledge of the Bible is essential to a rich and meaningful life.

I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.

The best way to know God's will is to be familiar with the Bible.

There is more Bible buying, Bible selling, Bible printing and Bible distributing than ever before in our nation. We see Bibles in every bookstore - Bibles of every size, price and style. There are Bibles in almost every house in the land. But all this time I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.

I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just views it as like a curiosity.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.

The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value.

You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty or overthrow a doubt?

Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?

In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment.

Architecture is the work of nations

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.