Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel J. Boorstin

In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.

D. H. Lawrence

I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.

Alexander Pope

The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.

Douglas MacArthur

Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.

Dwight L. Moody

Light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.

Don Marquis

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Doris Lessing

Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Doris Lessing

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.

Anne Sexton

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 Its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster, yet somehow man-made....

Ambrose Bierce

Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

Andrew Jackson

[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.

If the Bible is correct, and the Earth is only 6,000 years old, that means there were no dinosaurs, and museum curators have been messing with us. Or the dinosaurs were here, and we never noticed them. Or a lot of people saw them but didn't want to say anything.

John Wycliffe

This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.

Ben Hecht

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

Peter has provided extraordinary leadership for our organization. Under his guidance, millions of people who might have otherwise never been exposed to God's Word have received copies of the Bible and experienced its life-changing power.

Joel Madden

I'm just a really normal, sensitive kind of go-about-my business everyday kinda guy. People see the tattoos, and they either read things or they see things and they don't really know that I'm just this guy that gets up and makes coffee in the morning and hangs out with his friends and walks his dog and reads his Bible and goes about his day.

Tullian Tchividjian

There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as a result of emulation.

Charles Spurgeon

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

Abraham Lincoln

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.

Abraham Lincoln

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

Abraham Lincoln

Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation...

Abraham Lincoln

And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

Bill Cosby

It's more blessed to give than to receive -- especially kittens.

C. S. Lewis

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.

Fred Hammond

The Bible is a novel that's crazy... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war, sanctification.

A Bible used so much it never needed dusting. A rocking chair that moves in silent motion, beholding the Dad no longer there.

The Bible tells us: Blessed are the peacemakers. I invite you all to be peacemakers for Fiji, throughout the elections and beyond.

The Bible teaches us to fear God and love one another,

The Bible is real clear that homosexuality is an abomination to God. So to put a homosexual on the same level as race or ethnicity in an employment rule is just incomprehensible to me. How we can do that?

These paintings, these nice little pictures are banned? To me that is just way over the edge and yes, that made me angry. Oh, a Bible -- so what? It is art.