Cynthia Ozick Quotes

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

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.

I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible.

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

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

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

All things of beauty can speak to us of God, and I'm very happy to listen to and be inspired by people of every religious background.

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.

The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life.

The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.

I seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also.

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be understood in that same language and with that same logic.

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

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

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.

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.

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

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

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