| John Quincy Adams | "So great is my veneration for the Bible
that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope
that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members
of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible
once every year." |
| Thomas Carlyle | "The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came
by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window
divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern
in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home." |
| Charles Dickens | "The New Testament is the very best book
that ever was or ever will be known in the world." |
| W. E. Gladstone | "I have known ninety-five of the world's great men
in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible. The Bible is
stamped with a specialty of origin, and an immesurable distance separates it
from all competitors." |
| U.S. Grant | "The Bible is the sheet-anchor of our liberties." |
| Horace Greeley | "It is impossible to enslave mentally or
socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork
of human freedom." |
| Patrick Henry | "The Bible is worth all other books which have ever
been printed" |
| Thomas Huxley | "The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and
oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it" |
| Immanuel Kant | "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." |
| Robert E. Lee | "In all my perplexities and distresses, the
Bible has never failed to give me light and strength." |
| Abraham Lincoln | "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." |
| Napoleon | "The Bible is no mere book, but a living creature, with a
power that conquers all that oppose it." |
| Sir Isaac Newton | "There are more sure marks of authenticity
in the Bible than in any profane history." |
| John Ruskin | "Whatever merit there is in anything that I have
written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read
me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart." |
| W. H. Seward | "The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the
ever growing influence of the Bible." |
| Lord Tennyson | "Bible reading is an education in itself."
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| George Washington | "It is impossible to rightly govern the world
without God and the Bible." |
| Daniel Webster | "If there is anything in my thoughts or style to
commend, the credit is due to my parents for instilling in me an early love of
the Scriptures. If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country
will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its
instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may
overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity." |