Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

The Bible is God's great lesson book.

I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.

It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!

The only place we can find a clear, unmistakable message is in the Word of God, which we call the Bible.

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

The Bible defines almost nothing because it isn't a book for scholars and philosophers or free thinkers. It's a book for people who want help. It's primarily a book for pastors. They're the ones that can use it in a way so that it actually achieves its purpose.

The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the meaning of terms from the context in use.

The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me.

The Bible is the best of books, and I wish it were in the hands of every one. It is indispensable to the safety and permanence of our institutions. A free government can not exist without religion and morals, and there cannot be morals without religion. Especially should the Bible be placed in the hands of the young. It is the best school book in the world. I would that all our people were brought up under the influence of that holy book.

You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of the book is simply marvellous! Whatever it be, the book is the centre round which human allegiance gathers. Not one religion is living today but has a book. With all its rationalism and tall talk, humanity still clings to the books. In your country every attempt to start a religion without a book has failed. In India sects rise with great success, but within a few years they die down, because there is no book behind them. So in every other country.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

The Bible's power rests upon the fact that it is the reliable, errorless, and infallible Word of God.

When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.

I read the bible often, not just to prepare for "Noah". I believe it is a very important book.

There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.

In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions.

These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.

The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.