Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.

Robert H. Schuller

Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.'

Novalis

The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.

Ellen G. White

Don't you quote Sister White. I don't want you ever to quote Sister White until you get your vantage ground where you know where you are. Quote the Bible. Talk the Bible. It is full of meat, full of fatness. Carry it right out in your life, and you will know more Bible than you know now.

Thomas Jefferson

The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

Tertullian

I revere the fullness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and creation. In the gospel moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His Word.

Miles Franklin

Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does ...

Joseph Addison

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

Joseph Addison

There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs and anthems.

John Selden

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.

Thomas A. Edison

All bibles are man-made.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

Nowhere have I found words more powerful than those in the Psalms. Their fervid poetry cleanses one, gives one strength, brings hope in moments of darkness. Makes one look critically into oneself, convict oneself, and wash one's heart clean with one's own tears. It is the ever-burning fire of love, of gratitude, humility, and truth.

Penn Jillette

Reading the Bible is the fast track to atheism. Reading the Bible means starting at "In the beginning..." and throwing it down with disgust at "...the grace of the lord Jesus be with all. Amen." I'm sure there are lots of religious people who've read the Bible from start to finish and kept their faith, but in my self-selected sample, all the people I know who have done that are atheists.

Matthew Henry

Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.

Matthew Henry

There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one, so that no one will presume.

The first ever book to be published on a printing press was the Bible and we're doing the same thing here with text messaging,

John F. Kennedy

Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.

Martin Buber

Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.

John Hancock

...that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the whole Earth may be filled with his glory.

John Milton

The Saviour who flitted before the patriarchs through the fog of the old dispensation, and who spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, articulate but unseen, is the same Saviour who, on the open heights of the Gospel, and in the abundant daylight of this New Testament, speaks to us. Still all along it is the same Jesus, and that Bible is from beginning to end all of it, the word of Christ.

John Dickinson

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

Joseph Heller

But how can one be warm alone?

Karen Kingsbury

Perfect love drives out fear

Josh McDowell

Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have,

Josh McDowell

My father's life was changed right before my eyes [when he trusted Christ]. It was like someone reached down and switched on a light inside him. He touched alcohol only once after that. He got the drink only as far as his lips and that was it-after forty years of drinking! He didn't need it any more. Fourteen months later, he died form complications of his alcoholism. But in that fourteen-month period over a hundred people in the area around my tiny hometown committed their lives to Jesus Christ because of the change they saw in the town drunk, my dad.

Justin Brown

If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going ?

Mahatma Gandhi

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

John Bunyan

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.

Samuel Adams

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.

Thomas Jefferson

I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.