Bible Quotes - Page 20

• My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

  John Quincy Adams

  Morning, Godly, Presidential

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• The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

  Herbert Hoover

  Godly, Presidential, Library

  "The State Papers and Other Public Writings of Herbert Hoover".

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• The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the] Author: the Spirit of God.

  Billy Graham

  Book, Years, Long

  Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

  William E. Gladstone

  Men, Followers, World

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• For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

  Robert Jastrow

  Faith, Dream, Ignorance

  God and the Astronomers ch. 9 (1978)

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• I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

  John Adams

  God, Religious, Government

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• The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.

  John Adams

  God, Religious, Father

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 10: Letters and State Papers 1811 - 1825”, p.38, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Religious, Religion, Moral

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• I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.

  John Adams

  God, Religious, Book

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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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• You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but God's - not a book that may amuse you, but a book that can save you - not even a book that can instruct you, but a book on which you can venture an eternity - not only a book which can give relief to your spirit, but redemption to your soul - a book which contains salvation, and conveys it to you, one which shall at once be the Saviour's book and the sinner's.

  John Selden

  Book, Men, Giving

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 29), 1895.

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• Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

  Doris Lessing

  Kings, Air, Wings

  Doris Lessing (1999). “Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher”, p.34, Canongate Books

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• Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.

  James Hervey

  Mountain, Lines, Periods

  James Hervey (1816). “Mediations and Contemplations: Containing Meditations Among the Tombs, Reflections on a Flower-garden, A Descant Upon Creation, Contemplations on the Night, Contemplations on the Starry Heavens, A Winter-piece ...”, p.136

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• In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world--God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.

  Fulton Oursler

  Book, Writing, Men

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• The reason why we find so many dark places in the Bible is, for the most part, because there are so many dark places in our hearts.

  August Tholuck

  Heart, Dark, Reason Why

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

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Meditation, Fruit, Use

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1824). “Memoirs of Goethe:”, p.410

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• What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

  Joseph Addison

  Ideas, Giving, Supreme Being

  Joseph Addison (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.8

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• The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which He closed His earthly ministrations, full of the sublimest dignity and tenderest affection, surpass everything that I ever read; and like the spirit by which they were dictated, fly directly to the heart.

  William Cowper

  Beautiful, Heart, Son

  William Cowper (1862). “Letters of William Cowper; being a selection from his correspondence: with a sketch of his life, and biographical notices of his correspondents. [With a portrait.]”, p.54

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• People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.

  Muriel Spark

  People, Criticism, Scripture

  Muriel Spark (1967). “The Mandelbaum Gate”

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• In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.

  Isaac Watts

  Jobs, Rome, Ideas

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• Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.

  Grandma Moses

  Biblical, Years, Two

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• The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Home, Son, Men

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