Give to the people who toil and suffer, for whom this world is hard and bad, the belief that there is a better made for them. Scatter Gospels among the villages, a Bible for every cottage.
—Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist
I cannot too greatly emphasize the importance and value of Bible study—more important than ever before in these days of uncertainties, when men and women are apt to decide questions from the standpoint of expediency rather than on the eternal principles laid down by God, Himself.
—John Wanamaker (1838–1922) American Merchant, Civil Servant
Those who spiritualize tell spiritual lies, because they lack spiritual eyes.
—Unknown
There never was found in any age of the world, either philosophy, or sect, or religion, or law, or discipline, which did so highly exalt the good of the community, and increase private and particular good as the holy Christian faith.—Hence, it clearly appears that it was one and the same God that gave the Christian law to men, who gave the laws of nature to the creatures.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable’s handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
—Charles Kingsley (1819–75) English Clergyman, Academic, Historian, Novelist
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American Head of State
I have always said, I always will say, that the studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
—Charles Spurgeon (1834–92) English Baptist Preacher
The law of Thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the ground work of human freedom.
—Horace Greeley (1811–72) American Journalist, Author
I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.
—John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) Sixth President of the USA
light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord’s return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.
—Dwight L. Moody (1837–99) Christian Religious Leader, Publisher
Voltaire spoke of the Bible as a short lived book. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use. Not many people read Voltaire today, but his house has been packed with Bibles as a depot of a Bible society.
—Bruce Fairchild Barton (1886–1967) American Author, Advertising Executive, Politician
I am my neighbor’s Bible: he reads me when we meet, today he reads me in my house, tomorrow in the street; he may be relative or friend, or slight acquaintance be; he may not even know my name, yet he is reading me.
—Unknown
The Good Book—one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever copied.
—Ashley Montagu (1905–1999) British-American Anthropologist
The incongruity of the Bible with the age of its birth; its freedom from earthly mixtures; its original, unborrowed, solitary greatness; the suddenness with which it broke forth amidst the general gloom; these, to me, are strong indications of its Divine descent: I cannot reconcile them with a human origin.
—William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) American Unitarian Theologian, Poet
A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise and profitable study of the Bible itself.
—Henry Clay Trumbull (1830–1903) American Army Chaplain, Evangelist
Just as all things upon earth represent and image forth all the realities of another world, so the Bible is one mighty representative of the whole spiritual life of humanity.
—Helen Keller (1880–1968) American Author
When you read God’s Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, “It is talking to me, and about me.”
—Soren Kierkegaard (1813–55) Danish Philosopher, Theologian
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.
—Bruce Fairchild Barton (1886–1967) American Author, Advertising Executive, Politician
I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; for I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true meaning in any such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it.
—Daniel Webster (1782–1852) American Statesman, Lawyer
A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district—all studied and appreciated as they merit—are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
First I shake the whole [Apple] tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
—Martin Luther (1483–1546) German Protestant Theologian
For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
A noble book! All men’s book! It is our first, oldest statement of the never-ending problem,—man’s destiny, and God’s ways with him here on earth; and all in such free-flowing outlines,—grand in its sincerity; in its simplicity and its epic melody.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men.—It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter.—It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting.
—John Locke (1632–1704) English Philosopher, Physician
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