Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thank God that the Bible cannot possibly be the word of God

Henry David Thoreau

For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?

Henry David Thoreau

The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

Henry David Thoreau

The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

Henry David Thoreau

The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the church and the Sabbath-school, so that it seemed, before I read it, to be the yellowest book in the catalogue. Yet I early escaped from their meshes. It is hard to get the commentaries out of one's head and taste its true flavor.... It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians. In fact, I love this book rarely, though it is a sort of castle in the air to me, which I am permitted to dream.

Amar'e Stoudemire

I'm not a religious person; I'm more of a spiritual person, so I follow the rules of the Bible that coordinate with and connect with the Hebrew culture.

John Adams

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

I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.

John Adams

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

The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

John Adams

The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere.

John Adams

The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.

John Adams

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

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.'

Moses

... Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for you are with me...Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

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 F. Kennedy

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

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.

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.

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.

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 Bunyan

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

Joseph Heller

But how can one be warm alone?