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There is a great diffrence between books made by men et the Book who makes men.
Many things in the Bible I cannot understand; many things in the Bible I only think I understand, but there are many things in the Bible I cannot misunderstand
The devil is not afraid of the Bible that has dust on it.
L.R. Akers
There are ten men who will fight for the Bible to one who will read it.
Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274, considered to be the last Father of the Catholic Church
I am a man of one book
There cannot be errancy nowhere in the litteral sense of the Holy Scriptures.
Matthew Arnold 1822-1888, professor of poetry for 10 years in Oxford, a widely influential social and literay critic whose works continue to shape and provoke contemporary debate.
To the Bible men will return, and why? Because the cannot do without it.
Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, he was one of the most outstanding public figures of American life and a brilliant persuasive preacher.
The word of God tends to make large-minded, noble-hearted men.
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 harbour is, and how to reach it without running on rocks and bars.
Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.
Josh Billings 1818-1885, popular speaker, U.S. senator for 25 years
Almost any fool can prove the Bible ain't so - it takes a wise man to believe it.
Sir William Blackstone, 1723-1780 , English jurist, professor of Common Law at Oxford; author of Commentaries on the laws of England, which had a considerable influence on the importation and adaptation of English Common Law in America.
The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England
David Josiah Brewer 1837-1910, Associate Justice US Surpeme Court from 1890-1910, Brewer became an intellectual leader of the dominant faction on the Court.
No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises above those ideals. No nation has a sacrd book to be compared with ours. This American nation from the first settlement at Jamestown to the present hour is based upon and permeated by the principles of the Bible. The more this Bible enters into our national life the grander and purer and better will that life become.
Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682, Browne was a man of many words and could speak most European Languages; he was fluent in Latin and Greek and could get by in Arabic and Hebrew. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the College of Physicians as a man «eminently embellished with literature and virtue»
This a work too hard for the teeth of time, and cannot perish but in the general flames, when all things shall confess their ashes.
William Jennings Bryan1860-1925, 3 times democrat nominee for the U.S. presidency
The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remptest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future.
Robert Williams Buchanan 1841-1901, poet and playwriter
Alone at nights, I read my Bible more and Euclid less.
John Calvin 1509-1564, theologian and reformer
The Word of God is not for us to learn to babble, to become eloquent and subtil but to reform our lives.
John Chrysostome 347-407, byzantine theologian
For God's sake, don't be satisfied just looking at them, those magnificent words. You have to feed on it, assimilate them, thr true cause of our illness is the ignorance of the Word of God.
Your ennemy shoots constantly new arrows against you. Therefore, you need constantly to find your strenght in the Holy Scriptures.
Rufus Choate 1799-1859, lawyer and founder of a political party in U.S.
No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible
J.R. Cohu
My Bible tells me how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834, poet and writer
Good and holy men and the best and wisest of mankind, and kingly spirits of history, enthroned in the hearts of mighty nations, have borne witness to its influences, have declared it to be beyond compare the most perfect instrument of humanity.
David king of Israel1000 B.C
Your word is a light for my feet, ever shining on my way. - Ps.119:105
The Defender
Other books were given for our information, the Bible was given for our transformation.
Man do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself but because
it contraditcs them.
Cecil B. DeMille 1881-1959, producer of motion pictures (Ben Hur, 10 commandments)
After more than 60 years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvellously in tune with the changing needs of every day.
Charles Dickens 1812-1870, great writer
The New Testament is the best book the world has ever known or will know.
Timothy Dwight 1753-1817, grand-son of Jonathan Edwards, tutor at Yale university, pastor, learned to read at age 4, entered university at 13 years old.
The Bible is a window in this prison world, through which we may look into eternity.
Isaiah 800 B.C., prophet
Surely people is like grass; grass withers, the flower falls, but the word of our God stays eternally. Is.40:8
Frederic William Farrar 1831-1903, in
1869, he was appointed a Chaplain to Queen Victoria, from 1871-1876, he
was headmaster of Marlborough College. He then went on to become a
Canon of Westminster Abbey, rector of St. Margaret’s, Westminster,
Archdeacon of Westminster, and Dean of Canterbury. Farrar achieved a high
reputation as a writer and preacher. He wrote several important works in
philology and theology.
Men have misused Scripture just as they misuse light or food.
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John Flavel 1630-1691 preacher
The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
Peter Taylor Forsyth 1848-1921 pastor
The Word of God is in the Bible as the soul of man is in the body.
James Anthony Froude 1818-1894 écrivain
The Bible thoroughly known is a litterature of itself - the rarest and richest in all departments of thought or imagination which exists.
Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, poet
Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.
Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807-1882, italian politician and revolutionary, was Italy's most brilliant soldier of the Risorgimento and one of the greatest guerrilla fighters of all time. On the Bible he said:
This is the cannon that will make Italy free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832, greatest german writer
The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
Ulysses S. Grant 1822-1885, was an outstanding military figure and the savior of the Union during the Civil War, as well as the 18th President of the United States from 1869-77.
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice in your lives. To the influence of this book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilisation, and to this we must look as our guide in the future. «Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people»
Horace Greely 1811-1872, In 1841 he founded The New York Tribune, a liberal Whig newspaper, which was dedicated to a variety of reforms. Greeley’s editorials became the talk of the nation, and he came to be considered the top newspaper editor of his time. He ran for state and national office throughout the 1860-70s
It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible-reading people.
Pope Gregory the great 540-604 pope and doctor of the church
Holy Scripture is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant
may swin, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.
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Lady Jane Grey, queen put to death at 17 years old by Henry VIII
The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find
in reading God's word.
Everett T. Harris
No one ever graduates from Bible study until he meets the Author face to face.
Patrick Henry 1736-1799 Patrick Henry embodied the spirit of American courage and patriotism. He is recognized today, as he was among his contemporaries, as the "Orator of Liberty". His compelling speeches kindled the fires of the Revolution and fueled the effort to secure freedom.
There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.
Charles Hodge 1823-1886, reputed theologian
The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is found between its covers.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 1809-1894 a doctor, taught anatomy and physiology at Harvard Medical School
What you bring away form the Bible depends to some extent on what you carry to it.
Rees Howells 1869-1950 was a Welsh coal miner who had a dramatic experience with the Holy Spirit and has become known mainly through the book ‘Rees Howells Intercessor’ by Norman Grubb. The main emphasis of his life was the work of the Holy Spirit, emptying men and women of self so that they could be entirely possessed by the Spirit to do the will of God.
The Bible is common sense inspired.
Victor Hugo 1802-1885, french writer
England has two books,
The Bible and Shakespeare.
England make Shakespeare,
but he Bible made England.
John A. Hutton
The New Testament holds up a strong light by which a man can read even the small print of his soul.
Thomas Jefferson 1734-1826 3rd president of the United States: 1801-1809
I have always said, I always say, that the sudious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
St.Jerome, 347-420 of the versions of the Bible current in his day.
Not versions, but perversions.
To ignore Scriptures is to ignore Jesus Christ.
Joseph Joubert 1754-1824, moralist
The Bible is the Illiad of religion.
Toyohiko Kagawa 1888–1960, prominent Japanese Christian evangelist and social activist
When you start a Bible movement, it means revolution - a quiet revolution against darkness and crime.
Immanuel Kant 1724-1804, philosopher
The Bible is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced.
A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
Charles Kingsley 1819-1875, professor and writer
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, president of U.S.A.
Read this book for what on reason you can accept and take the rest ob faith, and you will live and die a better man.
This great book... is the best gift God has given to man... But for it we could not know right from wrong.
David Livingstone 1813-1873, great explorer
All that I am I owe to Jesus-Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
John Locke 1632-1704, philosopher
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.
Martin Luther 1483-1546,reformer
Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant.
Thomas Babington Macauly 1800-1859, writer and member of the Chamber of Communs in England
My way of learning a language is always to begin with the Bible, which I can read without a dictionary.
James McCosh 1811-1894, scottish calvinist theologian and philosopher, eleventh president of Princeton, man of character, religious ardor, statesmanship, devotion to the task of educating young men
The book to read is not the one who thinks for you, but the one which makes yo think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
Rabanus Maurus 776-856, archbishop of Mainz, , celebrated theological and pedagogical writer of the ninth century
The foundation, the state, the perfection of wisdom is knowledge of the Holy Scriptures.
Charles Delucena Meigs 1792-1869, docteur
What is a home without a Bbile?
'Tis a home where daily bread
For the body is provided,
But the soul is never fed.
The mystery of the Bible should teach us, at one and the same time, our nothingness and our greatness, producing humility and animating hope.
Francis Cassette Monfort
The morality of the Bible is, after all, the safety of society.
Dwight L. Moody, 1837-1899, evangelist
Sin will keep you from this Book. This Book will keep you from sin.
I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.
Andrew Murray 1828-1917, écrivain
Scriptures was given to us not to make our knowledge greater but to change our conduct.
Cardinal John Henry Newman 1801-1890
I read my Bible to know what people ought to do, and my newspaper to know what they are doing.
Its light is like the body of heaven in its clearness; it vastness like the bosom of the sea; its variety like the scenes of nature.
Sir Isaac Newton, scientist
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authority in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.
No science is better attested than the religion of the Bible.
Novalis 1772-1801, poète allemand
The history of every individual man should be a Bible -
Mordecai Obadiah
This litte book - it has said everything there is been said. Everything is implied and anticipated in it. Whatever one should like to put into words has already been said in it.
Sir Thomas Overbury 1581-1613, author poisoned by King James I
You cannot name any example in any heathen author but I will better it in Scripture.
Kenyon A. Palmer
God's road map - the Bible.
Apostle Paul of Tarsus in 2Timothy 3:16-17
Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness: So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.
Apostle Peter
Being conscious in the first place that no man by himself may give a special sense to the words of the prophets. For these words did not ever come through the impulse of men: but the prophets had them from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit. 2Pi.1:20-21
But the word of the Lord is eternal. And this is the word of the good news which was given to you. 1Pi.1:25
John Robinson
Fresh light shall yet break out from God's Word.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778 philosopher
I must confess to you that the majesty of the Scriptures astonishes me; the holiness of the Evangilsts speaks to my heart and has such striking characters of truth, and, is, moreover,so pefectly inimitable, that if it had been of invention of men, the inventors would be greater than the greatest heroes.
John Ruskin 1819-1900, the greatest Victorian bar Victoria, was an artist, scientist, poet, environmentalist, philosopher, and, importantly here, the pre-eminent art critic of his time
The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.
Francis of Sales catholic theologian
The Word of God chase sin form the soul. Therefore, he who delights
in sin finds sour the Word of God.
William H. Seward 1801-1872 secretary of state under president Andrew Johnson
The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.
James Smetham 1821-1889 painter, critic and essayist
My Bible, which is a vast Holy Land.
Gipsy Smith 1860-1947 was an English evangelist who made over forty evangelistic trips abroad to such countries as the United States, Australia
What makes the difference is not how many times you have been through the Bible, but how many times and how thoroughly the Bible has been through you.
Robert Payne Smith
The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, "the same yesterday, today, and forever."
Wallace C. Speers
Democracy is nothing but an attempt to apply the principles of the Bible to a human society.
Gardiner Spring 1785-1872. In 1810 he was called to fill the pulpit of Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City and remained there for 62 years
Never, with the Bible in our hands, can we deny rights to another, which, under the same circumstances, we could claim for ourselves.
Samuel Spring 1745-1819, pastor
In God's word we have a perfect standard both of duty and character, that by the influence of both, appelaling to the best principles of our nature, we may aroused to the noblest and best efforts.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892,, great 19th century preacher
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the Book widens and deepens with our years.
Why do you read the Bible so often? Because we don't have time to read it more often.
Sir Richard Steele 1672-1729, christian writer
Even the style of the Scriptures is more than human.
Augustus H. Strong, poète américain
The Bible is a telescope between man and God; it is the rending of a veil.
J. Carter Swain
The real influence of the Bible cannot be measured; it is reckoned only in terms of hearts that have been lifted up, decisions that have been changed, the men and women who, in response to its impervious demands, have done justice and loved kindness and walked humbly with God.
Jonathan Swift 1667 - 1745, author
of Gulliver's voyage
The Scripture, in time of disputes, is like an open city in time of war, which serves indifferently the occasions of both parties.
Isaac Taylor 1762-1840
The deathless Book has survived three great dangers: the negligence of its friends; the false systems built upon it; the warfare of those who have hated it.
William Mackergo Taylor 1829-1895, Scottish Congregational pastor
The man of one book is always formidable; but when that book is the
Bible he is irresistible.
W. J. Toms
Be careful how you live; you may be the only Bible some person ever reads.
Mark Twain 1835-1910, writer and journalist
Most people are bothered by those passages in Scripture which they cannot understand; but as for me, I always noticed that he passages in scriptures which trouble me most are those which I do understand.
Queen Victoria 1819-1901 to an African Prince
Tell your prince that this book (the Bible) is the secret of England's greatness.
Susan Bogert Warner 1819-1885, hymnist
Jesus loves me - this I know
For the Bible tells me so.
Daniel Webster 1872-1852 statesman, lawyer, and orator, was his era's foremost advocate of American nationalism
I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; since I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true meaning is such mystery and doubt, that none but critics and philosophers can discover it.
John Wesley 1703-1791, fouder of the Methodist Church
Sir, if the Bible be not true, I am as very a fool and madman as you can conceive; but if it be of God I am sober-minded.
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-1892, poet
We search the world for truth; we cull the good, the pure, the beautiful, from all the old flower fields of the soul; and, weary seekers of the best, we come back laden from our quest, to find that all the sages said is in the Book our mothers read.
John Wilmot 1647-1680
The only objection against the Bible is a bad life.
John Wycliffe 1320-1384
This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
