Bible Reading Quotes

• It may well be feared, that there is not enough Biblereading among us. It is not sufficient to have the Book. We must actually read it, and pray over it ourselves. It will do us no good, if it only lies still in our houses. We must be actually familiar with its contents, and have its texts stored in our memories and minds. Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive, wakeful reading.

  J. C. Ryle

  Memories, Lying, Book

  "Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew".

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• It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

  Horace Greeley

  Bible, Reading, Biblical

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• Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.

  R. C. Sproul

  Bible, Real, Passion

  "Knowing Scripture". Book by R. C. Sproul, 1977.

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• The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.

  George Washington Carver

  Simple, Secret, Found

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• Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible reading. By reading that book we may learn what to believe, what to be, and what to do; how to live with comfort, and how to die in peace.” Happy is that man who possesses a Bible! Happier still is he who reads it! Happiest of all is he who not only reads it, but obeys it, and makes it the rule of his faith and practice!

  J. C. Ryle

  Believe, Book, Reading

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• There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.

  R. A. Torrey

  Character, Mind, Beginners

  R.A. Torrey (1997). “Difficulties In The Bible”, p.7, Whitaker House

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• It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book that was as simple to me as the multiplication table and say, “This is the Word of God; in it He has revealed His whole will and wisdom,” I would shake my head and say, “I cannot believe it; that is too easy to be a perfect revelation of infinite wisdom.” There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.

  R. A. Torrey

  Bible, Believe, Book

  "Difficulties In The Bible".

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• There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.

  Isaac Newton

  Bible, Biblical, Science

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• So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

  John Quincy Adams

  Bible, Country, Children

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• A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.

  Immanuel Kant

  Book, Lines, Single Line

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Bible, Sorry, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1911-1912”

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• When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Bible, Biblical, Talking

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• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha!

  Attila the Stockbroker

  Bible, Bread Of Life, Creator God

  Song "The Bible According to Rupert Murdoch", 1992.

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Bible, Husband, Father

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• The Bible is ... as necessary to spiritual life as breath is to natural life. There is nothing more essential to our lives than the Word of God.

  Jack W. Hayford

  Spiritual, Essentials, Natural

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• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

  Harper Lee

  Bible, Christian, Book

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  Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible.

  Ronald Reagan

  Bible, God, Religious

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• My yoke is easy, and my burden light.

  Saint Boniface

  Bible, Jesus, Weary Heart

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• I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

  John Quincy Adams

  Years, Practice, Made

  Abiel Abbot LIVERMORE, John Quincy Adams (1848). “The Ancient and Honorable Man. A Discourse [on Isaiah Iii. 1-3] Preached on the Occasion of the Death of Hon. J. Q. Adams, Etc”, p.13

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

  William Blake

  Bible, Artist, Night

  William Blake, “The Everlasting Gospel”

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• In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Bible, Christ Consciousness, Bread Of Life

  N. Scott Momaday, Al Momaday (1969). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.7, UNM Press

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• Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.

  John Ruskin

  Bible, Mother, Children

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• The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

  Thomas Paine

  Bible, Religious, Book

  Thomas Paine, Thomas ERSKINE (Baron Erskine.) (1797). “A Letter to the Honourable T. Erskine [the Counsel for the Crown] on the prosecution of T. Williams, for publishing"The Age of Reason.".”, p.15

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• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

  James McCosh

  Motivational, Book, Reading

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• Bible reading is an education in itself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Bible, Reading, Biblical

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