Bob Jones Sr. Quotes

Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasn’t it bothered you, this part of the story, my being there, I mean? What was I doing there? ‘Presume not the ways of God to scan,’ you’ve been told in umpteen variations, ‘the proper study of Mankind is Man.’ Maybe so, but what, excuse me, was the Devil doing in Eden?) I took the forms of animals. I found I could. (That’s generally my reason for doing something, by the way, because I find I can.)

If I were Satan and my ultimate goal was to thwart God's kingdom and purposes, one of my main strategies would be to get churchgoers to ignore the Holy Spirit.

Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.

But evil has been around since the Garden of Eden, and God's plan for victory was designed before the world began. The Bible tells us to fear no evil.

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.'

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?

I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.

It is God’s will that the United States not be a nation of followers.

Satan’s successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

I've always had a problem with doing what I'm told.

I have a really hard time with people telling me what to do.

I have no interest in being told what to do.

I'm always trying to get my characters to the point of complete rebelliousness. I like that attitude that characters feel when they own their lives. There's something beautiful in the moments when characters disobey.

Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.