Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Scott

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

William Jones

The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarified of my affections, the mirror of my thoughts, the consoler of my sorrows, the guide of my soul through this gloomy labyrinth of time, the telescope went from heaven to reveal to the eye of man the amazing glories of the far distant world.

Woodrow Wilson

A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has (been) deprived of (the Bible).

Woodrow Wilson

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.

Woodrow Wilson

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

Saint Augustine

Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

W. C. Fields

W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.

Zach Galifianakis

I like to read the bible in public places where people are watching me read it. And I like to mumur out to myself: 'Bullshit!'

William E. Gladstone

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 Blackstone

The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England.

William Blake

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

Wernher von Braun

In this age of space flight when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity, the Bible... remains in every way an up to date book. Our knowledge and use of the laws of nature that enable us to fly to the moon, also enable us to destroy our home planet with the atom bomb. Science itself does not address the question whether we should use the power at our disposal for good or for evil. The guidelines of what we ought to do are furnished in the moral Law of God.

Samuel Beckett

I've tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. I'd rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them asexcellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But I'm sure I have contributed to false values--as Stanley Woodward said, "Godding up those ballplayers." The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have found in the Bible words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterance for my hidden griefs and pleadings for my shame and feebleness.

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.

Ruth Graham

If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake.

Ronald Reagan

For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity, the establishment of schools and hospitals, and the abolition of slavery.

Ronald Reagan

The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they found implicit in the Bible's teachings of the inherent worth and dignity of each individual. This same sense of man patterned the convictions of those who framed the English system of law inherited by our own Nation, as well as the ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Ronald Reagan

Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country, providing them with the strength, character, convictions, and faith necessary to withstand great hardship and danger in this new and rugged land. These shared beliefs helped forge a sense of common purpose among the widely dispersed colonies - a sense of community which laid the foundation for the spirit of nationhood that was to develop in later decades.

Robert Matthews

I think that it would be more true to life, true to the Bible. I wouldn't have a problem with a black man playing Jesus. Being born in that part of the world, he would be more close to being black than white anyway. Although what he did transcended all races.

S. Truett Cathy

As Christians, we have an obligation and responsibility to abide by the principles of the Bible.

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.

Thomas Carlyle

I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.

Thomas Carlyle

A noble book! all men's book!

Thomas Jefferson

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

The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.

Reggie White

But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation.

Robert Boyle

In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

Tom Stoppard

Give us this day our daily mask.

Victor Hugo

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

Thomas Paine

And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.