Discussion on Bible Verses and Beliefs

You mentioned the Bible.

You've been talking about how it's your favorite book.

And you said, I think last night in Iowa,

some people are surprised that you say that.

I'm wondering what one or two of

your most favorite Bible verses are and why.

I wouldn't want to get into it,

because to me that's very personal.

You know, when I talk about the Bible,

it's very personal. So I don't want to get into verses.

I don't want to get into...

There's no verse that means a lot to you

that you think about or cite?

The Bible means a lot to me,

but I don't want to get into specifics.

In boundless love as a Christian and as a man,

I read through the passage which tells us

how the Lord at last rose in His might and

seized the scourge to drive out of the temple

the brood of vipers and of adders.

How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison.

Today, after 2,000 years, with deepest emotion, I recognize more profoundly than ever before

the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the cross.

As a Christian, I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated,

but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

And as a man, I have the duty to see to it that human society

does not suffer the same catastrophic collapse as did the civilization of the ancient world some 2,000 years ago,

a civilization which was driven to its ruin through the same Jewish people.

These things I have spoken to you so that you would not stumble.

They will put you out of the synagogues,

but the hour is coming when everyone who puts you to death will consider that he is offering an excellent service to God.

And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father nor me.

But these things I have spoken to you so that when the hour for these things will have arrived, You may remember that I told you.