Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Rush

The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.

Benjamin Rush

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

Someone has calculated that in fifteen minutes a day we can read the Bible through twice in a year's time.

I watch him every Saturday on TV, and I get so nervous for him, ... He calls me before and after games to see how I do and to wish me luck. We both pray for each other and send each other Bible verses.

Betty Cuthbert

I can understand how evolution says, "don't believe in God", but I've never had this problem. I've always loved His creation. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean any_thing to some people, and I just don't get that! After all, if you just read the Bible plainly, it tells you everything. From Creation, to the Flood, to Jesus. I can't see how you can come to the conclusion, there is no God.

Benny Hinn

And here's what I said, if its in the word we accept it but if you dream it and your vision is not in the bible then you got to dismiss it because its not based upon the word.

Benny Hinn

My brother, if it's not in the Bible, He's not in it!! If it's not in the Word of God, He is not in it.

Benny Hinn

The Bible warns us clearly that we must not attack men of God no matter how sinful they may have become or wicked in our eyes.

Benny Hinn

Where in the Bible does it say I have to drive a Honda?.

Calvin Coolidge

I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.

Evan Thomas

Yeah, sort of good. I mean, there's a split in the Republican Party. Republicans used to be, once upon a time, for fiscal conservatism, and there are a few of those left, and they're starting to murmur more, and, you know, people forget Ronald Reagan raised taxes, you know, he cut taxes, but then he raised taxes. George Bush, the father, raised taxes. It's not, there's no law in the Bible that says a Republican can never raise taxes.

Ross Perot

You'll see it. Sooner or later the American people will wake up. All they have heard is, 'Let's forgive, let's forgive. The Bible tells us to forgive.' It's the silliest stuff I have ever heard on television. That's why I have finally spoken out.

John Piper

The astonishing thing is that people can become religious without being converted. That is, they join churches and start reading the Bible and doing religious things with no change in the foundation of their happiness: It is still themselves. They are the ground of their joy.

You have taken my son, and I know you did because God told me you did. Someone that's precious to me and my family, ... You might not get what's coming to you down here, but you're going to have to stand before God, because the Bible says you reap what you sow.

George Benson

I study the Bible constantly. I teach the Bible. You know, I'm a Bible conductor, and I have a lot of people studies. But also, I see how small things really help people to get over humps in their life. Gives them direction.

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.'

James Madison

Religion [is] the basis and foundation of Government

James Madison

Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.

James Madison

We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.

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.

John Calvin

The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.

George A. Romero

I've gotten letters, but mostly from Bible-belt types who say, you must be Satan! They come right out and call me Satan and hope that I'm damned to hell.

Francois Fenelon

Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.

And a long tall woman will make a preacher lay his Bible down - But a big, fat mama will make a mule kick his stall down

Edward de Bono

Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

Edith Hamilton

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

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.

Jonathan Swift

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.

Napoleon Bonaparte

All systems of morality are fine. The Gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few commonplace sentences put in bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.