Religious Literacy Quotes

An education without a Bible education is no education.

I know the Bible pretty well. I'm not one of those guys who can immediately start quoting every book, but usually I know where to look to find certain themes.

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.

Knowledge about religions is not only characteristic of an educated person, but is also absolutely necessary for understanding and living in a world of diversity.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.

What the printing press is to Christianity in the 16th century, that's what the Internet is doing to Islam now. It has opened up the monopoly over the interpretation of Islam that used to solely belong to the religious class.

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

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy.

I never learnt Hebrew because my health was fragile, and it was thought that learning Hebrew would be an added burden. I regret it, because I would like to be able to join in fully. Not that I am a believer, but I would like to be.

Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

Not everyone can be a theologian, but everyone should know some theology.

It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.

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 want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.

In the decade of the 1980s, a massive and comprehensive study of religion in American life was undertaken by the Gallup organization. The results of the study were as terrifying as they were revealing. Americans, even evangelical Americans, are woefully ignorant of the content of Scripture and even more ignorant of the history of Christianity and classical Christian theology.

I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those things, by the way, I suspect will prepare a child to give up religion. If you are taught comparative religion, you are more likely to realise that there are other religions than the one you have been brought up in. And if you are if you are taught to read the bible, I can think of almost nothing more calculated to turn you off religion.