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Quotations
On Bible
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- The
Bible
begins gloriously
with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting
kingdom,
with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.—Novalis.
- The
Scriptures teach us the
best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most
comfortable
way of dying.—Flavel.
Within
that awful
volume lies
The mystery
of mysteries!
Happiest
they of human
race,
To whom God
has granted
grace
To read, to
fear, to
hope, to pray,
To lift the
latch and
force the way;
And better
had they ne'er
been born,
Who read to
doubt, or
read to scorn.
—Scott.
- Like
the
needle to the North
Pole, the Bible points to heaven.—R.B. Nichol.
- There
are
two books laid before
us to study, to prevent our falling into error: first, the volume of
the
Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the
Creatures,
which express His power.—Bacon.
- Men
cannot
be well educated
without the Bible. It ought, therefore, to hold the chief place in
every
situation of learning throughout Christendom; and I do not know of a
higher
service that could be rendered to this republic than the bringing about
this desirable result.—Dr. Nutt.
- What
is
the Bible in your house?
It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the
gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John; it is the
Gospel
according to William, it is the Gospel according to Mary, it is the
Gospel
according to Henry and James, it is the Gospel according to your name.
You write your own Bible.—Beecher.
- A
single
book has saved me;
but that book is not of human origin. Long had I despised it; long had
I deemed it a class-book for the credulous and ignorant; until, having
investigated the Gospel of Christ, with an ardent desire to ascertain
its
truth or falsity, its pages proffered to my inquiries the simplest
knowledge
of man and nature, and the simplest, and at the same time the most
exalted
system of moral ethics. Faith, hope and charity were enkindled in my
bosom;
and every advancing step strengthened me in the conviction that the
morals
of this book are as infinitely superior to human morals as its oracles
are superior to human opinions.—M.L. Bautin.
Whence
but from Heaven,
could men unskill'd in arts,
In several
ages born,
in several parts,
Weave such
agreeing truths?
or how, or why
Should all
conspire to
cheat us with a lie?
—Dryden.
- Good,
the
more communicated,
more abundant grows.—Milton.
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- I will
answer for it, the longer
you read the Bible, the more you will like it; it will grow sweeter and
sweeter; and the more you get into the spirit of it, the more you will
get into the spirit of Christ.—Romaine.
- It has
God
for its author, salvation
for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter:
it
is all pure, all sincere, nothing too much, nothing wanting.—Locke.
- 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.—Franklin.
- Here
there
is milk for babes,
whilst there is manna for angels; truth level with the mind of a
peasant;
truth soaring beyond the reach of a seraph.—Rev. Hugh Stowell.
- It is
belief in the Bible, the
fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral
and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly
productive
of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.—Goethe.
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