John Selden Quotes

The Bible states it. It must be so.

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.

Religion is a sham when it claims to reveal the secret of life and death, to possess the eternal supreme truth, when it says that he who does not believe shall be damned.

The Moslems say their Koran was written by God. The Hindus say the Vedas were; we say the Bible was, and we are but interested witnesses in deciding absolutely and exclusively for ourselves

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

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

The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.

The Gospel comes in power and the Holy Spirit, with much assurance. If you call upon the name of the Lord, God will transform you on the inside, give you the shock of your life, and give you everlasting life on top of that.

I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I don't have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

I want to create the largest archive of great God debates in existence: a Web site that becomes a great resource for both Christians and atheists.

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.

That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.