“About two-thirds of Americans believe that the Bible "answers all or most of the basic questions of life"—and 28 percent of them admit that they rarely or never read it!”
Source: The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
“Bible publishers are not selling Bibles. What they're selling is that iconic idea of the Bible. Their value-added biblical content promises to provide answers to questions, solutions to problems, and speaks in no uncertain terms about God's plan for your life and how to live it. Adding value to the Bible almost always means adding "biblical" values that are either missing or really hard to find in the Bible itself but that provide that feeling of Bibleness so many seek.”
Source: The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
“To be sure, all translation is interpretation. ... Be that as it may, functional-equivalence translations, which presume that ambiguity, multivalence, and contradiction are by definition not part of the Bible, take far more creative and interpretive license than formal ones in eradicating those features. In so doing, they too often try to make the Bible into something it's not.”
Source: The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
“The idea of the Bible as a divine guidebook, a map for getting through the terra incognita of life, is our golden calf. It's a substitute for the wilderness wandering that the life of faith necessarily entails.”
Source: The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
“We're used to picturing the genealogy of a text like a family tree: one original at the base ascending like a single trunk, with copies branching off it, and copies of copies branching off them. And so on throughout the generations. We imagine an original from which all the generations of diversity spring as scribes make revisions and introduce copying errors. But the reverse seems to be the case when it comes to the origins of the Bible: the further you go back in its literary history, the less uniformity there is. Scriptural traditions are rooted, quite literally, in diversity.”
Source: The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
“The Bible stands as the supreme Constitution for all mankind, its laws applying equally to all who live under its domain, without exception or special interpretation.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Become grounded in the Bible. As Christians, we have only one authority, one compass: the Word of God.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“As we cast our frightened eyes around for something that is real and true and enduring, we are turning once more to this ancient Book [the Bible] that has given consolation, comfort, and salvation to millions in the centuries past.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“God never leads us to do anything that is contrary to the Bible.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“I have yet to discover a source of information, practical advice, and hope that compares to the wisdom found in the Bible.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes