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“Pride, willfulness, and rebellion against what “is written” are the causes of the Bible being hard to understand. The hard part, then, is not understanding with the mind, but being willing to obey ...”
“The English of the Bible has a pithiness and raciness a homely tang a terse sententiousness an idiomatic flavour which comes home to men's business and bosoms ... a nobility of diction and ... a rh...”
“The fathers have eaten a sour grape and the children's teeth are set on edge.”
“Oh my Father if it be possible let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will but as thou wilt.”
“A prophet is not without honour save in his own country.”
“Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee neither search the things that are above thy strength.”
“Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen you.”
“Be not deceived God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.”
“Watchman what of the night?”
“Man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets.”
“The letter killeth but the spirit giveth life.”
“For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound who shall prepare himself to the battle?”
“Entreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee for whither thou goest I will go and where thou lodgest I will lodge thy people shall be my people and thy God my God: where thou...”
“We have piped unto you and ye have not danced we have mourned to you and ye have not wept.”
“I know thy works that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.”
“They are as stubble before the wind and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.”
“Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel but on a candlestick and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.”
“Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called woman.”
“When caught reading the Bible W.C. Fields said T'm looking for loopholes.' The Bible is nothing but a succession of civil rights struggles by the Jewish people against their oppressors.”
“Unto everyone that hath shall be given and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.”
