Bible Quotes - Page 18

• If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Men, Profound

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• To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from "How shiny and beautiful they all are!" to "Get that damned thing out of my mouth!

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Beautiful, Jobs, Wall

  Jaroslav Pelikan (2006). “Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures”, p.229, Penguin

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

  John Calvin

  Christian, Kings, Church

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

  Richard Cecil

  Old And New, Schemes, New Testament

  Richard Cecil, Josiah PRATT (the Elder.) (1854). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition”, p.110

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• As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Essence, Sky

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• I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; for I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true meaning in any such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it.

  Daniel Webster

  Book, Believe, Doubt

  Daniel Webster, Dartmouth College (1974). “The papers of Daniel Webster: Correspondence”

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• 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.

  Unknown

  Jesus, Men, Thinking

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• Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible.

  John Wesley

  Giving Up, Scary, Witchcraft

  John Wesley (1856). “The Life of John Wesley”, p.195

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• Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Ocean, Biblical, Men

  "Life Thoughts".

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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

  Country, Children, Biblical

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• The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world.

  H. L. Mencken

  Biblical, Blood, Literature

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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

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells may come to us blunted and disarmed, and we may only sigh with tranquil veneration when we ought to be burning with shame, or struck dumb with terror, or carried out of ourselves by ravishing hopes and adorations.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Book, Biblical

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• We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is only the result of the Word of God. We can experience the return of the Word of God in the here and now, the perpetual return of the actual, living, indisputable Word of God that makes possible the act of witnessing, but we should never think of the Bible as any sort of talisman or oracle constantly at our disposal that we need only open and read to be in relation to the Word of God and God Himself.

  Jacques Ellul

  Biblical, Thinking, Needs

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• The Bible is a wonderful book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the Truth. A sermon taken from the Bible can be a wonderful thing to hear. It is the truth about the truth about the truth. But it is not the truth. There have been many books written about the things contained in the Bible. I have written some myself. They can be quite wonderful to read. They are the truth about the truth about truth about the Truth. But they are NOT the Truth. Only Jesus Christ is the Truth. Sometimes the Truth can be drowned in a multitude of words.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Jesus, Book, Taken

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• All Sacred Scriptures is but one book, and that one book is Christ, because all divine Scripture speaks of Christ, and all divine Scripture is fulfilled in Christ.

  Hugh of Saint Victor

  Christian, Book, Sacred Scripture

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• Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Religious, Prayer

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1148, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The Congress of the United States, in recognition of the unique contribution of the Bible in shaping the history and character of this Nation, and so many of its citizens, has by Senate Joint Resolution 165 authorized and requested the President to designate the year 1983 as the 'Year of the Bible.'

  Ronald Reagan

  God, Religious, Character

  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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• Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Religious, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1472, Jazzybee Verlag

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• This nation under God

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Religious, Nations

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• This book out-lives, out-loves, out-fits, out-lasts, out-reaches, out-runs, and out-ranks all books. This book is faith producing. It is hope awakening. It is death destroying, and those who embrace it find forgiveness of sin.

  Arcturus Z. Conrad

  Christian, Running, Book

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Christian, Song, Grief

  "The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge".

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• It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Mistake, Biblical, Looks

  William Sloane Coffin (2012). “The Heart Is a Little to the Left: Essays on Public Morality”, p.62, UPNE

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• This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.

  Harry S. Truman

  God, Religious, Men

  Harry S. Truman, William Hillman (1984). “Harry S. Truman in his own words: by William Hillman ; pictures by Alfred Wagg”, Outlet

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• When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.

  Henry M. Morris

  Data, Agnostic, Taliban

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