112 Bible Quotes To Inspire

In life's journey, moments of reflection, inspiration, and motivation often guide us through challenges and celebrations. One source that many turn to for such guidance is the Bible, where profound teachings and timeless wisdom are found in abundance. Whether you're searching for solace, seeking encouragement, or simply want to explore thoughts that have guided countless generations, the Bible offers a treasure trove of insights. In this collection, we bring together 112 of the most inspiring Bible quotes, curated to uplift your spirit and enrich your soul. Each quote serves as a gentle reminder of the power of faith, hope, and love, providing a beacon of light in both calm and storm.

1. “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” - Galileo Galilei

2. “In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart.” - Hillary Rodham Clinton

3. “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast.” - Anonymous

4. “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” - Richard Dawkins

5. “With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.” - Steven Weinberg

6. “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.[Psalms 23]” - Anonymous

7. “And when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, silence coverd the sky” - Anonymous

8. “What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31 NIV) a” - Anonymous

9. “Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.” - Isaac Asimov

10. “It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.” - Thomas Paine

11. “And lo I am with you always, even to the very end of the age.” - Anonymous

12. “Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - Harper Lee

13. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” - Anonymous

14. “Therefore, my brothers, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.Acts 13:38” - Anonymous

15. “For I am convinced that neither death nor life neither angels nor demons neither the present nor the future nor any powers neither height nor depth nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.Romans 8:38” - Anonymous

16. “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” - Anonymous

17. “The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.” - Mark Twain

18. “In the heartfelt mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those sitting in darkness, in the shadow of death, to guide our feet to the way of peace.” - Anonymous

19. “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Eph. 6:12 (NIV)” - Anonymous

20. “The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.” - Albert Einstein

21. “But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.” - Anonymous

22. “All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.” - David Livingstone

23. “Let my people go” - Anonymous

24. “Finaly, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. -Ephesians 6:10-11” - Anonymous

25. “When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.” - Oscar Wilde

26. “So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven?” - Joseph Heller

27. “To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” - Anonymous

28. “Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.” - Ronald Reagan

29. “We ought not to READ the scriptures, but listen to them, for our Beloved is present and speaks to us through them. (vs. it being like a love letter sent to us from afar).” - Basil Pennington

30. “I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.” - Bill Maher

31. “the whole Bible is itself a missional phenomenon. The writings that now comprise our Bible are themselves the product of and witness to the ultimate mission of God. The Bible renders to us the story of God's mission through God's people in their engagement with God's world for the sake of the whole of God's creation. The Bible is the drama of this God of purpose engaged in the mission of achieving that purpose universally, embracing past, present and future, Israel and the nations, "life, the universe and everything," and with its centre, focus, climax, and completion in Jesus Christ. Mission is not just one of a list of things that the Bible happens to talk about, only a bit more urgently than some. Mission is, in that much-abused phrase, "what it's all about.” - Christopher J.H. Wright

32. “The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.” - Paul David Tripp

33. “Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.” - Anonymous

34. “The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.” - George Bernard Shaw

35. “Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.” - Francis Schaeffer

36. “Be courageous and He shall strengthen your heart, all of you who hope in the Lord.” - Anonymous

37. “The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.” - D.L. Moody

38. “As for biblical or religious theory, I don’t ever want to fight about the details of the story, I want to live the reality of the message.” - Steve Maraboli

39. “Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.” - Anonymous

40. “Look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.” - Anonymous

41. “Not my will, but thine, be done.” - Anonymous

42. “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.” - Anonymous

43. “It is a bad indication when, in any period, men will so exalt their confessions that they force the Scriptures to a secondary importance, illustrated in one era, when as Tulloch remarks: 'Scripture as a witness, disappeared behind the Augsburg Confession" ...No decrees of councils; no ordinances of synods; no "standard" of doctrines; no creed or confession, is to be urged as authority in forming the opinions of men. They may be valuable for some purposes, but not for this; they may be referred to as interesting parts of history, but not to form the faith of Christians; they may be used in the church to express its belief, not to form it.” - L.S. Chafer

44. “We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.” - Rich Mullins

45. “Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.” - John Paul warren

46. “The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.” - John Paul warren

47. “I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person’s life void of negative experiences.” - John Paul warren

48. “Living life ONCE is enough...if you live life RIGHT.” - John Paul warren

49. “The secret to strong leaders is that strong leaders are strong because they have been tempered by the negative. They have discovered the secret of combining the negative and the positive to PRODUCED their very own POWER plant!” - John Paul warren

50. “When the Bible itself becomes irksome, inquire whether you have not been spoiling your appetite by sweetmeats and renounce them; and believe that the Word is the wire along which the voice of God will certainly come to you if the heart is hushed and the attention fixed.” - F.B. Meyer

51. “The bible when taken metaphorically, provides us the truth about god; but when taken literally, the bible provides as the truth about man.” - Joey Lawsin

52. “My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.” - Rachel Held Evans

53. “Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.” - Anonymous

54. “One proof of the inspiration of the Bible is that it has withstood so much poor preaching.” - A.T. Robertson

55. “I also saw that theologically speaking the whole idea of a smacking is not congruent with the teaching revealed in the gospel of Jesus Christ. God sent His Son into the world to save the world so they would not have to suffer for their own sins, but parents today punish their children and make them undergo the horrors of punishment for even the most minor of infractions. The idea of mercy is seemingly not applied at all. When parents' sin, they ask God to forgive them, repent and know they are forgiven. When children sin, they are judged, tried, condemned and punished.” - Samuel Martin

56. “If we believe the Canon is closed and Scripture is sufficient, then we believe God is not speaking new words apart from Scripture.” - Dan Phillips

57. “Widespread criticisms of jihad in Islam and the so-called sword verses in the Quran have unearthed for fair-minded Christians difficult questions about Christianity's own traditions of holy war and 'texts of terror.' Like Hinduism's Mahabharata epic, the Bible devotes entire books to war and rumors thereof. Unlike the Quran, however, it contains hardly any rules for how to conduct a just war.” - Stephen Prothero

58. “If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.” - Anonymous

59. “From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.” - Ann Voskamp

60. “There's a way to preach the Bible unbiblically...You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can't you? Look around in here and find something that fits your fancy and then launch a rocket off it. People say, 'That was amazing, wasn't it? Remarkable what he got out of that.' Well of course it is because he put it in before he got it out.” - Alistair Begg

61. “If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.” - Mark Driscoll

62. “The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of Abraham the way a man starting a fire shields the flame. When Sarah was about to die childless, the Fear gave her a son. When Abraham was about to slaughter the son, the Fear gave him the ram. He is always shielding us like a guttering wick, Laughter said, because the fire he is trying to start with us is a fire that the whole world will live to warm its hands at. It is a fire in the dark that will light the whole world home.” - Frederick Buechner

63. “The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.” - John Marsden

64. “The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.” - James Merritt

65. “The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.” - Glen Duncan

66. “So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving of judgment. Not the children, for they inherit eternal life. So who is wronged? Ironically, I think the most difficult part of this whole debate is the apparent wrong done to the Israeli soldiers themselves. Can you imagine what it would be like to have to break into some house and kill a terrified woman and her children? The brutalising effect on these Israeli soldiers is disturbing.” - William Lane Craig

67. “Pride, willfulness, and rebellion against what “is written” are the causes of the Bible being hard to understand. The hard part, then, is not understanding with the mind, but being willing to obey what he does not want to obey. If a person could not understand the truth, he could not reject it.” - Finis Jennings Dake

68. “Nevertheless, should you have any doubts that we are stating sound doctrines, look up the references and see exactly what the Bible says and believe it in preference to any man. You cannot go wrong with this kind of advice. But in doing this, be sure you adhere to what is written, and that you do not let preconceived ideas cause you to be biased on any point. Do not try to make the Bible conform to your ideas. Always reconcile your ideas to the Bible. Let the plain language of the references given be read and understood in the same literal way that we would understand similar statements in any other book” - Finis Jennings Dake

69. “The book in my hands became my trusted companion. What was written there had so much power that it forced me to stop avoiding myself, to make my own choices as well. And through some sort of vital intuition, I understood that I had a long way to go, that it would bring about a profound transformation within me, even though I could not determine it's essence, or its scope. In that book there was a voice, and behind that voice threw was an intelligence that sought to establish contact with me. It was not merely the company of written words that distiller my boredom. It was a living voice, speaking. To me.” - Ingrid Betancourt

70. “The only sure rule is to remember that the Bible is indeed God's gift to the church, to equip that church for its work in the world, and that serious study of it can and should become one of the places where, and the means by which, heaven and earth interlock and God's future purposes arrive in the present.” - N.T. Wright

71. “The marvel of our Bible never shows more marvellous than at such times, when you see it in deed and in truth the Sword of the Spirit, and it cuts.” - Amy Wilson-Carmichael

72. “Bookshop Customer: 'Who wrote the bible?'Customer's friend: 'Jesus.” - Jen Campbell

73. “To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for no documents of the ancient period are as well attested bibliographically as the New Testament.” - John Warwick Montgomery

74. “The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.” - St. Augustine of Hippo

75. “Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.” - Bernard Branson

76. “We must admit that simply knowing the contents of the Bible is not a sure route to spiritual growth. There is an aweful assumption in evangelical churches that if we can just get the Word of God into people's heads, then the Spirit of God will apply it to their hearts. That assumption is aweful, not because the Spirit never does what the assumption supposes, but because it excused pastors and leaders from the responsibility to tangle with people's lives. Many remain safely hidden behind pulpits, hopelessly out of touch with the struggles of their congregations, proclaiming the Scriptures with a pompous accuracy that touches no one. Pulpits should provide bridges, not barriers, to life-changing relationships.” - Larry Crabb

77. “Choose to view life through God's eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn't come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage point. Start by reading His Word, the Bible...Pray and ask God to transform your thinking. Let Him do what you cannot. Ask Him to give you an eternal, divine perspective.” - Swindoll Charles R.

78. “When you bring all your doubts and fears to God, you’ll find the reason to trust Him. And as you trust Him, you will draw closer to Him. Best of all, no one who draws closer to God can possibly remain unchanged.” - Pauline Creeden

79. “When Jesus said “Whoever eats my flesh & drinks my blood has eternal life” John 6:54 He was CLEARLY talking to Zombies & Vampires” - Pablo

80. “In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.” - R.C. Sproul Jr.

81. “The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.” - Mark Twain

82. “The most important thing we can pray about for others is that they will know God better and that He will help them understand His will, grow in spiritual wisdom, and live lives that honor Him. We can pray that they will become more like Him and bear the fruit of His Spirit.” - Stormie Omartian

83. “...for poets, at least, experiencing something inexpressible does not mean silence. It's precisely the inexpressible something that poetry is meant to help us see or feel. If it were merely expressible - if there were nothing ineffable about it - there would be no need for a poem. But everywhere in the Bible we meet reality that exceeds our expectations.” - John Piper

84. “The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were changed with new significance.” - Frederick Buechner

85. “Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer” - Eric Metaxas

86. “The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God condemned us and Jesus saved us, and they are actually the same being? Christianity is the idea that you are so abhorrent that God had to kill himself. He had to embody the human form and send himself on a bizarre suicide mission just to revoke the disgustingness of the humans he created. I balk at suggestions that these ideas dictate to the concepts of morality and love.” - Trevor Treharne

87. “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son [Stalin], so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.” - Austin 3:16

88. “To be a critical reader means for me: (1) to affirm the enduring power of the Bible in my culture and in my own life and yet (2) to remain open enough to dare to ask any question and to risk any critical judgement. Nothing less than both of these points, together, can suffice for me. I was a reader of the Bible before I was a critic of it, but I found becoming a critic to be liberating and satisfying, and therefore I judge criticism to be a high calling of inestimable value. Yet, I recognize the prior claim of the text and the preeminence of reading over criticism; accordingly, I see and occasionally am apprehended by moments in which the text wields its indubitable power. The critic's ego says this could be a taste of the cherished post-critical naivete; the reader's proper humility before the text says that a reader should not judge such things.” - Robert M. Fowler

89. “Many who read their Bibles make the great mistake of confining all their reading to certain portions of the Bible which they enjoy. In this way they get no knowledge of the Bible as a whole. They miss altogether many of the most important phases of Bible truth.” - R.A. Torrey

90. “Many people are calling Manti Te’o “dumb” or “naïve” because he fell for the “invisible girlfriend” hoax or catfishing but when you think about it. Religion MIGHT be doing the same thing when it tells you that there is a “God” that you cannot see, or meet, that loves you, & “communicates” with you thru a book (bible).Does that make sense?” - Pablo

91. “Jews highly value having an abundance of money for the sake of caring for their families and for helping the needy.” - H.W. Charles

92. “God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.” - Charles H. Spurgeon

93. “The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold” - Dan Brown

94. “Fear is a scheme that the devil uses to great effect. From my personal study, the words “do not be afraid” or “fear thee not” (depending on the Bible translation) appear over one hundred times in the Bible! The message from God is quite clear: we need not be afraid!” - Pedro Okoro

95. “The greatest importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls...lies in the discovery of biblical manuscripts dating back to only about 300 years after the close of the Old Testament canon.” - Philip W Comfort

96. “It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor's wife should cut them all out and paste them into her scrapbook.” - Margaret Atwood

97. “The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.” - Scot McKnight

98. “I too was pinched off from a piece of clay, I too modeled by omnipotence and flankedby things too wonderful for me” - Bryana Johnson

99. “In life, you have a choice to be better or bitter.” - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

100. “It's so much more than a child's story. - Matt Chandler on LIFE Today.” - Matt Chandler

101. “He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't...that's the thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that.” - Matt Chandler

102. “But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men, it is impossible. But not with God. With God, all things are possible.” - Mark 10 27

103. “Because thou hast made the Lord, which is thy refuge, even the most high they habitation. There shall be no evil before thee, neither shall any plague come by thy dwelling. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him."-Peter Cratchit” - Charles Dickens

104. “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” - Jesus Christ

105. “And there shall come a kingdom in which the lion shall lie down with the lamb. Unfortunately for the lamb it shall be inside the lion!” - Greg Curtis

106. “The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship keeps trying to catch up, proving that all the hatred of gay is just stupid translation, though the snake-oil preachers don't want to hear it.” - Paul Monette

107. “It is not enough just to read the Bible; it is even just as important to understand it. As to living it- that is accomplished in and through us by the Holy Spirit."~R. Alan Woods [2013]” - R. Alan Woods

108. “Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.” - Dennis R. Miller

109. “They don't take the Bible as a general thing, sailors don't; though I will say that I never saw the man at sea who didn't give it the credit of being an uncommon good yarn.("Kentucky's Ghost")” - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

110. “All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders.” - Tim LaHaye

111. “Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.” - Criss Jami

112. “To delight in the law of the Lord is to find our source of joy outside of ourselves.” - Dillon Burroughs