Monday, July 2, 2007

Some Quotes About the Bible

The bible is a book like no other. Here are the opinions of some well know people and how they viewed the bible. So if you would like to commit to more Bible reading, think about the power of the text you read!

"The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible."
George Washington Carver
"It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom."
Horace Greeley

"The existence of the Bible is a book for the people. It's the greatest benefit the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity."
Immanuel Kant

"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man."
Abraham Lincoln
"The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and the oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it."
Thomas Huxley

"The Bible is no mere book, but it's a living creature with a power
that conquers all who oppose it."
Napoleon

"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."
George Washington

"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people...so great is my veneration of the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read, the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens in their country and respectful members of society."
John Adams

"A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know the price of rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved."
Benjamin Franklin

"That Book (the Bible) is the rock on which our Republic rests."
Andrew Jackson

"The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty...students' perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands."
Thomas Jefferson

"The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed." Patrick Henry
"If we will not be governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants."
William Penn

"Bible reading is an education in itself."
Lord Tennyson

"There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history." .... "I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily."
Sir Isaac Newton

"The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world." Charles Dickens

"The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures."
A.W. Tozer

"It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book that was as simple to me as the multiplication table, and say, 'This is the Word of God. In it He has revealed His whole will and wisdom,' I would shake my head and say, 'I cannot believe it; that is too easy to be a perfect revelation of infinite wisdom.' There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners."
R.A. Torrey
"My advice to Sunday Schools no matter what their denomination is: Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your heart, and practice them in your lives. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. 'Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people (Proverbs 14:34)'."
Ulysses S. Grant
Let the word of Christ dwell richly in you today and forevermore.

1 comment:

Jonathan Moorhead said...

. . . eagerly awaiting your next post . . .