Bible Knowledge Quotes

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

I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.

People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible.

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.

There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.

Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.

The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

My mom gave me the children stories of the Bible. I memorized that book at the age of nine.

There are three categories of people in America: those who are afraid, those who don't know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles.

I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible.

It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.

The best way to know God's will is to be familiar with the Bible.

Having knowledge of the Bible is essential to a rich and meaningful life.

I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.

I'm sick of people who've never been to church telling me that church is full of hypocrites, and people who've never read the Bible telling me that it's baloney.

There's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance.

What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to know the Bible but it is just hard to understand the big picture of it. And number two, they want to know where they plug in.

Most Americans and other Westerners claim to have read all or part of the Bible. However, when asked to identify even four books of the Bible or four of Jesus' disciples or four of the Ten Commandments, fewer than half even attempt to respond and fewer than one in ten respond correctly.

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

It is better to have but little knowledge with humility and understanding, than great learning which might make you proud. For a person's merits are not to be estimated by having many visions, or by knowledge of the bible, or by being placed in a higher position; but by being grounded in true humility, and by seeking always, purely, and entirely, the honor of God.

First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a school with a lot of traditions, and they were educated people and they were talking about Greece and the Parthenon and I don't know what. All the kids, all the girls they had already seen that and knew that from their family, and I would say, "What are you talking about, what's that?" It's not my world. My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything about the Bible.

I don't claim to be someone that knows every verse in the Bible. I wish I did. I truly do. It just means I need to spend more time in those pages.