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• Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God's help, it will continue to be.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  God, Religious, Father

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.274, Best Books on

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• The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result is not "the Word of God" in the sense that every passage in itself, gives impeccable science or history. It carries the Word of God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Biblical, Errors, Giving

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• The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper and leather. The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. 'The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.' The life is in the speaking words. God's word in the Bible can have power only because it corresponds to God's Word in the universe. It is the present Voice which makes the written word powerful. Otherwise it would lie locked in slumber within the covers of a book.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Powerful, Lying, Book

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• Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made.

  Phillips Brooks

  Jesus, Biblical, Christ

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• It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.

  John Quincy Adams

  Passion, Practice, Government

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• I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Wisdom, Flames, Blood

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• To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to what I call the vision of God is the story which is told in the Bible.

  Jan Smuts

  Race, Vision, Stories

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

  Walter Scott

  Students, Volume, Diligent

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• For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.

  Martin Luther

  Biblical, Years, Tree

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table Talk”

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• A noble book! all men's book!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Men, Noble

  Thomas Carlyle (2010). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History”, p.67, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To say that God is an incorporeal substance, is to say in effect there is no God at all. What alleges he against it, but the School-divinity which I have already answered? Scripture he can bring none, because the word incorporeal is not found in Scripture.

  Thomas Hobbes

  God, School, Substance

  Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer (1840). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.305

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• When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.

  Thomas Hobbes

  God, Scripture, Authority

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.433

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• The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leavingthe world, and the Philosophy thereof, to the disputation of men, for the exercising of their natural Reason.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Exercise

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of it. There is a Bible in words of one syllable; I am happy to say I have never seen it. Such a monstrosity should be put alongside of the Rhyming Bible, of which, I believe, only one copy is in existence.

  Laura E. Richards

  Children, Believe, Rhyming

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• 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 Beckett

  Athlete, Writing, Player

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• To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of right and wrong:MThe first of these will comprehend the duties of religion;Mthe second, those of morality, which are so inseparably connected together, that you cannot divide these two tableswithout breaking and mutually destroying them both.

  Laurence Sterne

  Eye, Two, Religion

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• Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.

  Ben Hecht

  Book, League, Infidelity

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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

  Calvin Coolidge

  Kings, Book, Thinking

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• And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an Eagle: in the New it is a Dove.Christ insists on the Dove: but in His supreme moments He includes the Eagle.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Eagles, Spirit

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Gita

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• [On the New Testament:] I ... must enter my protest against the false translation of some passages by the men who did that work, and against the perverted interpretation by the men who undertook to write commentaries thereon. I am inclined to think, when we [women] are admitted to the honor of studying Greek and Hebrew, we shall produce some various readings of the Bible a little different from those we now have.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Reading, Writing, Men

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.16

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• The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.

  John Quincy Adams

  World, Creation, Revelations

  John Quincy Adams (1850). “Letters by John Quincy Adams, on the Study of the Bible”, p.20

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• The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Him in His glorious presence forever. Everyone else will be left behind to face God's wrath and judgment. If Jesus were to return today, do you know if He would take you with Him to heaven?.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Wrath, Forever

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• 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.

  Matthew Henry

  Despair, Bed, Thieves

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• If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspiration, Needs, Can Do

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4140, Library of Alexandria

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