Bible Quotes - Page 21

• Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Biblical, Jesus Christ, Treasures In Heaven

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• Christianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Men, Christianity, Natural

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 35, 1895.

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• I cannot see how it can be argued that one should speak in tones of reverence and awe about the alleged divine instruction-in Psalms-to grab the defenseless bodies of innocent infants and dash their brains out against the nearest rocks or walls.

  Steve Allen

  Religious, Wall, Rocks

  Steve Allen (1993). “More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality”

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• The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly the severer passages. As there may be fifty or sixty nights of gentle dews in one summer, that will not cause as much remark as one hailstorm of half an hour, so there are those who are more struck by those passages of the Bible that announce the indignation of God than by those that announce His affection.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Summer, Children, Night

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1872). “Sermons”, p.248

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• When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.

  John Philip Kemble

  Book, Thinking, Sacred Scripture

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p.40), 1895.

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• To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

  William Blake

  Spiritual, Art, Book

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Of course
  the New Testament is very small.
  Its mouth opens four times
  as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster,
  yet somehow man-made.

  Anne Sexton

  Men, Monsters, Mouths

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties.

  Edward Norris Kirk

  Book, Soul, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 38), 1895.

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• High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the snows of eternity; they give a space, a meaning, a dignity to all the rest of the earth over which they brood.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Eight, White, Space

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 33), 1895.

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• I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible. I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary. No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible, and no uneducated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  College, Men, Presidential

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• The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty....The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church: which are to be found clearly written and promuligated in the New Testament.

  Samuel Adams

  God, Christian, Reading

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• The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

  John Dickinson

  God, Religious, Kings

  John Dickinson (1801). “The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esquire: The speech of John Dickinson ... May 24th, 1764 ... praying the king for a change of the government of the province. 1764”, p.111

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• The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Simple, Years, Three

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• The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.

  Benjamin Rush

  God, Religious, Government

  Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.8

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• Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, God, Education

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 18 (1781 - 1785)

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• We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.

  Samuel Adams

  God, Patriotic, Independent

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• Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Religious, Patriotic

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches”, p.44, Penguin

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• I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.

  Samuel Adams

  God, Religious, Jesus

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• It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.

  George Washington

  Thanksgiving, God, 4th Of July

  Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789

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  The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

  John Quincy Adams

  God, Religious, Independent

  Letter to an autograph collector from Washington on April 27, 1837, The Historical Magazine, archive.org. July 1860.

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• Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

  Benjamin Rush

  God, Christian, Religious

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• It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

  John Milton

  Men, Hands, Grace

  John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.325

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• Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Christian, People, Greek

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• The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Book, Thinking

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• 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.

  John Ruskin

  Christian, Book, Thoughtful

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