Famous quotes about the Bible

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book. (Abraham Lincoln)

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The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed. (Patrick Henry)

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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

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Defend the Bible? I would just as soon defend a roaring lion. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. (Isaac Newton)

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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. (Isaac Asimov)

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The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity. (Immanuel Kant)

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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in ever greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires, beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the gospels, it will not go. (Goethe)

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Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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Bible reading is an education in itself. (Lord Tennyson)

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The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with It. (Thomas Huxley)

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