{"quotes":[{"text":"It's crazy isn't it?' She shook her head. 'You have to believe it, but you hate it. I don't have to believe it, and I think it's beautiful.' She shook her head again. 'It's crazy.","author":"Katherine Paterson","tags":["jesus-christ","the-bible"],"id":176,"author_id":"Katherine+Paterson"},{"text":"Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.","author":"John Calvin","tags":["christianity","the-bible","theology"],"id":887,"author_id":"John+Calvin"},{"text":"Oh, [god] can hear you just fine. He hears everything. Every scream. Every cry. Every whimper. Every plea for mercy. For death. He hears. He just doesn't give a fuck.","author":"Jason Aaron","tags":["bitterness","cain","crying","godliness","hearing","jason-aaron","plea-for-mercy","scream","the-bible","the-goddamned"],"id":7980,"author_id":"Jason+Aaron"},{"text":"I wanna be so consumed with the love of Christ that it flows into every aspect of my life.","author":"Evangelist Jordan Wells","tags":["christianity","faith","jesus-christ","the-bible"],"id":11208,"author_id":"Evangelist+Jordan+Wells"},{"text":"The most wonderful thing of all about the cross is that it reveals the love of God to us. It is not surprising that Paul should say to the Romans, 'God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.' How do we see the love of God in the cross? Ah, says the modern man, I see it in this way, that though man rejected and murdered the Son of God, God in His love still says, 'All right, I still forgive you. Though you have done that to My Son, I still forgive you.' Yes, that is part of it, but it is the smallest part of it. That is not the real love of God. God was not a passive spectator of the death of His Son. That is how the moderns put it - that God in heaven looked down upon it all, saw men killing His own Son, and said, 'All right, I will still forgive you.' But it was not we who brought God's Son to the cross. It was God. It was the predeterminate counsel and foreknowledge of God.If you really want to know what the love of God means, read what Paul wrote to the Romans: 'For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.' God condemned sin in the flesh of His own Son. This is the love of God. Read again Isaiah 53, that wonderful prophecy of what happened on Calvary's hill. You notice how he goes on repeating it: 'Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows... It pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief.' These are the terms. And they are nothing but a plain, factual description of what happened on the cross.","author":"D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones","tags":["calvary","christ","christianity","god","grace","holiness","love","scripture","sin","the-bible","the-cross","truth"],"id":25609,"author_id":"D.+Martyn+Lloyd-Jones"},{"text":"[They] pervert the course of nature [by saying] the sun does not move and that it is the earth that revolves and that it turns.[John Calvin illustrating his opposition to heliocentrism in a sermon due to the Bible's support of geocentrism].","author":"John Calvin","tags":["astronomy","bible","biblical-cosmology","geocentricism","heliocentrism","science","science-and-religion","scripture","the-bible"],"id":41868,"author_id":"John+Calvin"},{"text":"He knew a great deal of the Bible already, and he knew the Bible believed in all sorts of weird stuff. According to the Bible, God Himself was at least one-third Ghost, and that was just the beginning. You could tell the Bible believed in demons, because Jesus threw a bunch of them out of this guy. Real chuckalicious ones, too. When Jesus asked the guy who had them what his name was, the demons answered and told Him to go join the Foreign Legion. Or something like that.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["demons","legion","the-bible"],"id":47367,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it? We know now, that it requires a great number of years to form a language; that it is of exceedingly slow growth. We also know that by language, man conveys to his fellows the impressions made upon him by what he sees, hears, smells and touches. We know that the language of the savage consists of a few sounds, capable of expressing only a few ideas or states of the mind, such as love, desire, fear, hatred, aversion and contempt. Many centuries are required to produce a language capable of expressing complex ideas. It does not seem to me that ideas can be manufactured by a deity and put in the brain of man. These ideas must be the result of observation and experience.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["adam-and-eve","aversion","bible","brain","centuries","contempt","deity","desire","experience","expression","fable","fantasy","fear","garden-of-eden","growth","hatred","ideas","impressions","knowledge","language","love","myth","observation","savage","senses","serpent","the-bible"],"id":53988,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.","author":"Joel Osteen","tags":["dreams","god","holy-spirit","idols","jesus","joel-osteen","sacrifice","the-bible","wanting"],"id":61025,"author_id":"Joel+Osteen"},{"text":"If the Pentateuch is inspired, the civilization of of our day is a mistake and crime. There should be no political liberty. Heresy should be trodden out beneath the bigot's brutal feet. Husbands should divorce their wives at will, and make the mothers of their children houseless and weeping wanderers. Polygamy ought to be practiced; women should become slaves; we should buy the sons and daughters of the heathen and make them bondmen and bondwomen forever. We should sell our own flesh and blood, and have the right to kill our slaves. Men and women should be stoned to death for laboring on the seventh day. 'Mediums,' such as have familiar spirits, should be burned with fire. Every vestige of mental liberty should be destroyed, and reason's holy torch extinguished in the martyr's blood.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["bible","bigot","brutal","burning","christianity","civilization","crime","death-penalty","divorce","forever","heathen","heresy","holy","husbands","inspired","judaism","kill","liberty","martyr","mental","mistake","mothers","murder","pentateuch","politics","polygamy","sabbath","sell","slaves","spirits","stoning","the-bible","torth","wander","weeping"],"id":64294,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":97,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}