Unlocking the Bible Quotes

“From one point of view, the Bible is the story of a romance, a heavenly Father seeking an earthly bride for his Son. Like every good romance, they ‘get married and live happily ever after’. But this climax is only reached in the Book of Revelation, without which we would never know whether the engagement (or ‘betrothal’; 2 Corinthians 11:2) ever came to anything or was broken off!”
― David Pawson, Unlocking the Bible: A captivating biblical history guide across time and faith

“Imagine a New Testament that closed with the little Letter of Jude addressed to a second-generation church that was being corrupted in its creed, conduct, character and conversation. So is that how it will all end? What a depressing anticlimax!”
― David Pawson, Unlocking the Bible: A captivating biblical history guide across time and faith

“Above all, they cover two periods of time, one leading up to the first coming of the Messiah and one leading to the second. It’s as if Daniel looked through a prophetic telescope and saw two ‘peaks’ of history, a lower in front of a higher, without realizing the length of the valley between them.”
― David Pawson, Unlocking the Bible: A captivating biblical history guide across time and faith

“The Bible had become a compendium of ‘proof-texts’, picked out at will and used to support almost anything a preacher wanted”
― David Pawson, Unlocking the Bible: A captivating biblical history guide across time and faith

“faith, hope and love are the three main virtues in life.”
― David Pawson, Unlocking the Bible: A captivating biblical history guide across time and faith