Samuel Butler Quotes

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.

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.

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.

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.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

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

I don't like to believe in canon.

If we believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, then we shouldn't be recognizing it only as a book of historical and economic significance.

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.

Even as Jews and Christians profoundly disagree about the truth, they are united in the belief that there is a truth to be sought.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

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.

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.

The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries.

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.