At the bottom of a Peretti NOVEL is the biblical view of THINGS, the Christian message. Whether you're a Christian or not, you're STILL GOING to have to DEAL with good versus evil.

The Qur'an is in many ways far LESS concrete than the BIBLE, relying on the esoteric more OFTEN than the apparent.

I was thinking about how people seem to READ the BIBLE a WHOLE lot more as they get OLDER; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their FINAL exam.

The BIBLE is a WONDERFUL SOURCE of INSPIRATION for those who don't UNDERSTAND it.

I'm running my life ACCORDING to what I KNOW to be TRUE from the BIBLE and the OLD scribes.

I believe there are some great things that I've taken from the Bible in terms of LOVING the world and TRYING to be kind. There are a lot of good things to take from the Bible, and I like to THINK I TRY to apply them to my LIFE.

For this reason, to STUDY ENGLISH literature without some general knowledge of the RELATION of the Bible to that literature WOULD be to leave one's LITERARY education very incomplete.

The father-son RELATIONSHIP is the strongest there is. It's been the basis of drama all the WAY back to the BIBLE. Notice, Abraham wasn't told to sacrifice a daughter.

There are BEAUTIFUL WORDS in the BIBLE and in our pledges and the Declaration of INDEPENDENCE.

When you start writing SONGS on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're LEFT with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a GOOD song or an INTERESTING CONCEPT.

I do believe that ISRAEL is covenant LAND. That's very CONTROVERSIAL, but I read the BIBLE literally, and I believe that God gave them that land, all the way back to Deuteronomy.

The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In FACT, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling TALES, and poetic imagery that to QUOTE it at all is to select from conflicting ALTERNATIVE passages. Every QUOTATION is therefore necessarily an interpretation.

I TEACH a BIBLE study for homeless guys in downtown Atlanta every week. Been doing it for years. That's the guys I'd rather go talk to. I'd rather TAKE my ACT OUTSIDE the church.

Biblical counselors and therapists, we've seen cases in New JERSEY and in California where FOLKS have GOTTEN in trouble because they gave biblical counseling and, you know, the issue is always, it's same sex. And if you're giving conversion therapy, that's been outlawed in at least two STATES and then in some LOCAL areas.