Biblical Characters Quotes

I know the Bible pretty well. I'm not one of those guys who can immediately start quoting every book, but usually I know where to look to find certain themes.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, he and his 'Lamentations' are really not worth reading.

My mom gave me the children stories of the Bible. I memorized that book at the age of nine.

Lot, who said to his wife as she was being turned into a pillar of salt, Stop shaking! Never got a dinner!

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

Moses, Aaron, Abraham, they're all a waste of time. It's your ass that's on the line.

The man I lived with is a Christian, so I would talk to him about it. What would this person do in the Bible? What's the story around this person? Generally, when people talk about characters in the Bible, there's one thing they're known for, like Job.

I toy around with the whole Biblical thing, just as amazing characters.

Whether you're a believer or not, a flawed biblical epic is going to be more entertaining than a remake of a Paul Verhoeven movie or some third-rate sci-fi flick.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.

What interests me so much about the characters of the Bible is that they make mistakes but God uses them anyway, in important ways. Nobody's perfect, but God can even use our imperfection.

I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise.

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play.

For me [Patriarchs] exist. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exist today. They are people that you see with white beards. I have no doubt of their existence.

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings.

Many of the characters who appear in the pages of the Fourth Gospel are literary creations of its author and were never intended to be understood as real people, who actually lived in history.

The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.

Noah's wife, who said to Noah, Don't let the elephants watch the rabbits. Never got a dinner!

Biblical names are hot again.