Bible Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

827 Famous Quotes by Bible
“(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation.)”
Time Quotes
Source: II Corinthians (ch. VI, v. 2)
“My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.”
Time Quotes
Source: Job (ch. VII, v. 6)
“He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
Time Quotes
Source: Matthew (ch. XVI, v. 2-3)
“For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.”
Time Quotes
Source: Psalms (ch. XC, v. 4)
“For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.”
Time Quotes
Source: Psalms (ch. XC, v. 9)
“For out allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death, because it is sealed up and no one turns back.”
Time Quotes
Source: Wisdom of Solomon (ch. II, v. 5)
“How agree the kettle and the earthen pot together?”
Argument Quotes
Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. XIII, v. 2)
“And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end: and much study is a weariness of the flesh.”
Books Quotes
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. XII, v. 12)
“Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.”
Books Quotes
Source: Isaiah (ch. XXX, v. 8)
“Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in a book!”
Books Quotes
Source: Job (ch. XIX, v. 23)
“Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.”
Books Quotes
Source: Job (ch. XXXI, v. 35)
“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
Books Quotes
Source: Job (ch. XXXI, v. 35)
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.”
Pearls Quotes
Source: Matthew (ch. XIII, v. 45-46)
“And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”
Darkness Quotes
Source: Exodus (ch. X, v. 21)
“I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.”
Vanity Quotes
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. I, v. 14)
“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.”
Vanity Quotes
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. I, v. 2)
“Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.”
Vanity Quotes
Source: Psalms (ch. LXII, v. 9)
“Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.”
Vanity Quotes
Source: Psalms (ch. XXXIX, v. 5)
“How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.”
Failure Quotes
Source: II Samuel (ch. II, v. 25)
“Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.”
Content Quotes
Source: Matthew (ch. XVII, v. 4)
“. . . for thou art a stiff-necked people. . .”
Public Quotes
Source: Exodus (ch. XXXIII, v. 3)
“The great unwashed.”
Public Quotes
Source: Exodus (ch. XXXIII, v. 3)
“And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.”
Government Quotes
Source: Revelations (ch. II, v. 26-27)
“But now, after that ye have known God, or rather or known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?”
Character Quotes
Source: Galatians (ch. IV, v. 9)
“And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.”
Character Quotes
Source: I Corinthians (ch. IV, v. 6)