Quotes with bible-bigot

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• The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

  ― Henry Ward Beecher
  American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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• The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
  

  ― Noam Chomsky
  American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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• The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

  ― Heinrich Heine
  German poet (1797 - 1856)
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• The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

  ― Billy Graham
  American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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• The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
  

  ― Richard Dawkins
  English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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• The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

  ― Brendan Behan
  Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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• The Bible was written by fallible human beings.
  

  ― Richard Dawkins
  English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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• The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• 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.

  ― Richard Cecil
  British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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• The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.

  ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.

  ― Francis Lockier
   
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• The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.

  ― Bryce Courtenay
  South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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• The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert, and so on.

  ― Noam Chomsky
  American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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• The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.

  Source: As quoted in "Leaving the fold: testimonies of former fundamentalists" by Edward T. Babinski, Prometheus Books, 1995, p. 435

  ― Billy Sunday
  American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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• The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

  ― Alfred N. Whitehead
  English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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• Them that's got shall get
  Them that's not shall lose
  So the Bible said and it still is news
  Mama may have, Papa may have
  But God bless the child that's got his own
  That's got his own.

  Source: God Bless The Child

  ― Billie Holiday
  American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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• There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

  ― George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• There were questions I didn't have the answers to, and I was trying to figure it out. I remember staying up until 4 A.M. reading the Bible and praying.

  ― Burgess Owens
  American football player (1951 - )
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• There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.

  ― Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, ''If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.

  ― Ray Charles
  American singer, songwriter, pianist and composer (1918 - 2015)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• voltaire-poison
• consolation
• characters
• acquainted
• themselves
• acquiesced

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