Easiest Bible Quotes

Does it not seem strange that the generation with the most advanced technology and the easiest-to-read Bible translations is the weakest generation of Christians in the history of our country? Church attendance has never been lower, and the Christian influence in our culture never weaker.

For the most difficult way to be retweeted, or, liked: be thought-provoking. For the easiest way: quote Oprah, or, the Bible.

The referral is the easiest prospect in the world to sell. Ask any professional who hates selling (accountants, architects, lawyers) -- they'll tell you that 100% of their new business comes from referrals. That's because they're not capable of making sales calls and rely on the fall-in-your-lap method of selling.

You know who is the easiest to fool? People who want to believe in something badly. … if we really want something to be true, we are easily persuaded. … we will even sell ourselves on the idea.

The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world's books into one book, just as Kevin (Kelly) suggested. It might start to happen in the next decade or so. Google and other companies are scanning library books into the cloud in a massive Manhattan Project of cultural digitization. What happens next is what's important. If the books in the cloud are accessed via user interfaces that encourage mashups of fragments that obscure the context and authorship of each fragment, there will be only one book. This is what happens today with a lot of content; often you don't know where a quoted fragment from a news story came from, who wrote a comment, or who shot a video. A continuation of the present trend will make us like various medieval religious empires, or like North Korea, a society with a single book. The Bible can serve as a prototypical example. Like Wikipedia, the Bible's authorship was shared, largely anonymous, and cumulative, and the obscurity of the individual authors served to create an oracle-like ambience for the document as "the literal word of God." If we take a non-metaphysical view of the Bible, it serves as a link to our ancestors, a window. The ethereal, digital replacement technology for the printing press happens to have come of age in a time when the unfortunate ideology I'm criticizing dominates technological culture. Authorship - the very idea of the individual point of view - is not a priority of the new ideology. The digital flattening of expression into a global mush is not presently enforced from the top down, as it is in the case of a North Korean printing press. Instead, the design of software builds the ideology into those actions that are the easiest to perform on the software designs that are becoming ubiquitous. It is true that by using these tools, individuals can author books or blogs or whatever, but people are encouraged by the economics of free content, crowd dynamics, and lord aggregators to serve up fragments instead of considered whole expressions or arguments. The efforts of authors are appreciated in a manner that erases the boundaries between them. The one collective book will absolutely not be the same thing as the library of books by individuals it is bankrupting. Some believe it will be better; others, including me, believe it will be disastrously worse. As the famous line goes from Inherit the Wind: 'The Bible is a book... but it is not the only book' Any singular, exclusive book, even the collective one accumulating in the cloud, will become a cruel book if it is the only one available.

Does it not seem strange that the generation with the most advanced technology and the easiest-to-read Bible translations is the weakest generation of Christians in the history of our country? Church attendance has never been lower, and the Christian influence in our culture never weaker. For so long we have heard the complaint that people do not read and study the Bible because the language is antiquated. Yet the generation who had only the King James Version was the generation that sparked revivals and missionary movements around the world. It just may be that the Bible translation was not the problem. It is my observation that the natural man does not understand spiritual principles. The problem has never been the translation. The problem has never been academic. The problem has always been spiritual.

There are many things that men and women ought to think about, and must think about, in private, that they would not for a moment discuss in public. There are books on the proper conduct of women in certain most sacred relations of life, relations of life which are as holy as any, and which can be entered into in the presence of a holy God with no question of His approval, but which do not permit of public mention. . . . That the Bible is a pure book is evidenced by the fact that it is not a favourite book in dens of infamy. But on the other hand, books that try to make out that the Bible is an obscene book, and that endeavour to keep people from reading it, are favourite books in dens of infamy. The unclean classes, both men and women, were devoted admirers of the most brilliant man this country ever produced who attacked what he called the "obscenity of the Bible." These unclean classes do not frequent Bible classes. They do frequent infidel lectures. These infidel objectors to the book as an "obscene book" constantly betray their insincerity and hypocrisy. Colonel Ingersoll . . . objected to the Bible for telling these vile deeds "without a touch of humour." In other words, he did not object to telling stories of vice, if only a joke was made of the sin. Thank God, that is exactly what the Bible does not do--make a joke of sin. It makes sin hideous, so men who are obscene in their own hearts object to the Bible as being an obscene book. . . . To sum up, there are in the Bible descriptions of sins that cannot wisely be read in every public assembly, but these descriptions of sin are morally most wholesome in the places where God, the Author of the Book, manifestly intends them to be read. The child who is brought up to read the Bible as a whole, from Genesis to Revelation, will come to know in the very best way possible what a child ought to know very early in life if he is to be safeguarded against the perils that surround our modern life on every hand. A child who is brought up upon a constant, thorough, continuous reading of the whole Bible is more likely than any other child to be free from the vices that are undermining the mental, moral, and physical strength of our boys and girls, and young men and young women. But the child who is brought up on infidel literature and conversation is the easiest prey there is for the seducer and procuress. The next easiest is the one who, through neglect of the Bible, is left in ignorance of the awful pitfalls of life.

In this effort, those who like James Henry Thornwell defended the legitimacy of slavery in the Bible had the easiest task. The procedure, which by 1860 had been repeated countless times, was uncomplicated. First, open the Scriptures and read, at say, Leviticus 25:45, or, even better, at 1 Corinthians 7:20-21. Second, decide for yourself what these passages mean. Don't wait for a bishop or a king or a president or a meddling Yankee to tell you what the passage means, but decide for yourself. Third, if anyone tries to convince you that you are not interpreting those passages in the natural, commonsensical, ordinary meaning of the words, look hard at what such a one believes with respect to other biblical doctrines. If you find in what he or she says about such doctrines the least hint of unorthodoxy, as inevitably you will, then you may rest assured that you are being asked to give up not only the plain meaning of scripture, but also the entire trust in the Bible that made the country into such a great Christian civilization.

Success is defined as having a turnkey, systems-dependent business that serves as a vehicle for all the people it touches: the owners, the employees, and the community.

Real estate has long been America’s number-one wealth builder. It is a tried-and-true path to building wealth and has transformed the lives of millions of regular, everyday people.

Study hard. Keep an open mind. And take charge of your financial destiny once and for all.

There are moments in everyone’s life that have the power to spark massive change—moments that define your future and the path you ultimately choose to take.

I started the restaurant because I thought having a good, entrepreneurial idea was enough to make serious money in business. Some people call this an ‘entrepreneurial seizure.’ In my case it was more of an ‘entrepreneurial burp.

I knew I could find the answers and people to learn from if I was determined enough. I also knew I had to spend time learning about the industry before I jumped in headfirst.

Wholesaling provided the gasoline we needed to really grow what started out as a hobby and quickly became a business.

No matter where you live, there are people who are making money in real estate. Likewise, in every market there are people who are wholesaling real estate to other investors.

What you believe to be true eventually ends up becoming your reality.

One of the worst things you can do is listen to and take advice from people who are not where you want to be financially.

Instead of taking the easy route, which is to do nothing, challenge the way you might be thinking and ask yourself how you can make this work.

If you have what it takes, wholesaling real estate can allow you to live a life others only dream about. It can give you the freedom to do what you want, when you want, with whomever you want.

Don’t give in. Don’t give up. Trust me.

Real estate investing can be a means to an end.

Even if investing isn’t your dream job, it can give you the financial freedom you need to spend more time pursuing your higher calling.

I don’t know of any quicker way to make a profit in real estate than wholesaling.

This technique can also yield very high returns in short time periods.

One of the reasons I love wholesaling is because it is challenging and no two deals are alike due to the fact that every property and every person involved in the transaction is unique.

There is something intrinsically rewarding about finding hidden opportunities that other people have overlooked.

Success in real estate is a lot like working out. You can’t expect to spend a week in the gym and be fit for life. Likewise, you can’t just read one book and expect to be an expert.

Learning how to invest in real estate has the power to change your life forever.

Your job as an investor is to always understand those risks and try to minimize them in any way you can.

With a relatively small deposit you can control a property worth significantly more for an agreed-upon period of time.

The buyer you find actually steps into your shoes and buys the property on the favorable terms you negotiated.

Real estate investing is not easy; however, I truly believe it is a heck of a lot easier and financially more rewarding than working 40 years of your life for a corporation, the government, or someone else.

Keep accumulating knowledge... Commit to spending a few hours each week educating yourself on anything and everything related to investing in real estate.

Getting an understanding of the local real estate market will allow you to make better decisions about how you use your time.

Having time freedom and total control of your schedule is an amazingly rewarding feeling.

In this weaving together of the story of the Old Testament, four simple categories help identify how each part points to Jesus in the New Testament: 1. The easiest category is made up of passages or verses that offer prophecies of the coming Messiah, such as the Genesis 3:15 reference to Eve’s seed defeating Satan. Isaiah 53 and 61 are other examples. 2. Then we find stories that show God’s work to preserve the lineage of Christ, such as Joseph’s actions in Egypt that kept Abraham’s descendants from dying out. Esther, Rahab, and Ruth’s stories fall into this category as well. 3. We also see pictures of the coming Christ, His work, and His kingdom. The Old Testament sacrificial system clearly illustrates this. The story of Hosea and Gomer pictures Jesus’s coming redemption of His bride, as God instructed Hosea to pursue and restore Gomer despite her adultery (see Hosea 1:2–3). Boaz and Ruth’s story reflects aspects of the gospel as well, as Boaz took his place as Ruth’s kinsman-redeemer (see Ruth 2–3), foreshadowing Jesus’s redemption of His bride, the church. 4. Many stories simply reinforce our need for a Savior. Stories such as the rape and dismemberment of the concubine of an unnamed Levite in Judges 19 reinforce the Israelites’ warped sense of right and wrong, inability to be righteous on their own, and need for salvation through Christ. Most parts of the Old Testament will fit one or more of these four categories.

soon lost his possessions. We find that people who are constantly taking the quickest or easiest way out are often disappointed.

The easiest-to-read Bibles are called paraphrases. These can be very helpful, especially for young or first-time readers of the Bible. The best known of this type is The Living Bible.

Face It Some people fancy that to Dodge some work that they ought to do is about the easiest possible thing to do. The truth is, however, it is always easier to walk right up to your work and — Pace It. No one but laggards dig up excuses for Dodging what they should Face.

Perhaps it is easiest to define “meek” by saying Jesus was meek: “for I am gentle [same word as our beatitude] and humble31 in heart” (11:29). Moreover, in entering Jerusalem on a donkey, Jesus fulfilled an Old Testament expectation of the meek king (21:5).

Dorothy Pentecost— wife of J. Dwight Pentecost, a longtime professor of Bible exposition at Dallas Theological Seminary and pastor at Grace Bible Church in Dallas— had written a book for pastors’ wives that was recommended to me. In words reminiscent of [Mary O.] Ross’s, she explains that a pastor’s wife is the 'church hostess’ and should ‘appear as attractively dressed as possible all the time.’ But she goes further than Ross, addressing not only wardrobe but also the body— dedicating a chapter titled ‘Do Calories Count?’ to weight management. ‘Overweight is a sign of a spiritual lack,’ Pentecost contends. The ‘easiest way’ to maintain healthy weight is to ‘live constantly under the control of the Spirit.’ Her book, like Ross’s, is dated, but given the number of chapters on appearance in more recent books by pastors’ wives, this kind of advice still resonates.