Bible Quotes - Page 21

• Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Biblical, Jesus Christ, Treasures In Heaven

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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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• 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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• As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him.

  John Adams

  God, Religious, Blessing

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.169

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• The Holy Scriptures are that divine instrument by which we are taught what to believe, concerning God, ourselves, and all things, and how to please God unto eternal life.

  John Robinson

  Christian, Believe, Scripture

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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 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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• 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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• I want to know one thing, the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condescended to teach the way; for this end He came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. Give me that book! At any price give me the Book of God!

  John Wesley

  Book, Land, Giving

  John Wesley (1980). “John Wesley”, p.89, Oxford University Press

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• In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Religious, Book

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.542, Wildside Press LLC

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• The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

  Dan Barker

  Fear, Cutting, Order

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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

  Samuel Adams

  God, Religious, Jesus

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• If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Believe, Whales, Said

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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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• 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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