Eric Metaxas Quotes

That's what we have with the Old Testament and the New Testament: good storytelling.

The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories.

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.

I grew up with Bible stories, which are like fairy tales, because my father was a minister. We heard verses and prayers every day. I liked the gorier Bible stories. I did have a book of Chinese fairy tales. All the people except the elders looked like Italians. But we were not a family that had fiction books.

I was an altar boy and heard the Bible being read out repeatedly. The stories have stayed with me, although they're completely remixed in my head. And often, when I do further reading, I'm quite surprised by the difference between the real story and my memory of the story.

When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.

I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.

I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me.

What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.

My mother read me biblical stories at night.

I've read the Bible before, a couple of times cover to cover.

Would you take anybody's views on Christianity seriously if they hadn't read the New Testament? Of course you wouldn't. So I read the Koran.

Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity.

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.

The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects.

Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

There are things that I do agree with in Christianity and things that I don't agree with. I'm not a regular churchgoer, but I do think that I have my own beliefs that I feel strongly about.

Someone remarked that the newspapers or the news magazines are the same as the psalms except that the names changed in the stories. Maybe you can't understand the psalms without understanding the newspaper and the other way around.

The New Testament is not a historical document.

I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.

My mother loved the Bible.

It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.