Bible Quotes - Page 20

• Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Prayer, Biblical, Sublime

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• The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

  John Quincy Adams

  Faith, Book, Attention

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• We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.

  George Washington

  God, Religious, Pardon

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• The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this, the Pope is mortal, and the church cannot be afflicted with the same idiot forever. The Protestants have a book for their Pope. The book cannot advance. Year after year, and century after century, the book remains as ignorant as ever.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Book, Biblical, Years

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “Discussions”

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• Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.

  Benjamin Rush

  God, Religious, Perfect

  Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.93

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• The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

  George MacDonald

  Jesus, Biblical, Stories

  "An expression of character: the letters of George MacDonald".

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• The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which He closed His earthly ministrations, full of the sublimest dignity and tenderest affection, surpass everything that I ever read; and like the spirit by which they were dictated, fly directly to the heart.

  William Cowper

  Beautiful, Heart, Son

  William Cowper (1862). “Letters of William Cowper; being a selection from his correspondence: with a sketch of his life, and biographical notices of his correspondents. [With a portrait.]”, p.54

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• 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

  God, Religious, Blessing

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.169

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• People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.

  Muriel Spark

  People, Criticism, Scripture

  Muriel Spark (1967). “The Mandelbaum Gate”

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

  John Adams

  God, Religious, Book

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• In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.

  Isaac Watts

  Jobs, Rome, Ideas

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• The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Religious, Religion, Moral

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• 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

  God, Religious, Father

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 10: Letters and State Papers 1811 - 1825”, p.38, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.

  Grandma Moses

  Biblical, Years, Two

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

  John Adams

  God, Religious, Government

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• 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

  Light, Years, Religion

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.211, Graphic Arts Books

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• What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

  Joseph Addison

  Ideas, Giving, Supreme Being

  Joseph Addison (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.8

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• It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Meditation, Fruit, Use

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1824). “Memoirs of Goethe:”, p.410

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• Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

  Doris Lessing

  Kings, Air, Wings

  Doris Lessing (1999). “Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher”, p.34, Canongate Books

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• Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.

  James Hervey

  Mountain, Lines, Periods

  James Hervey (1816). “Mediations and Contemplations: Containing Meditations Among the Tombs, Reflections on a Flower-garden, A Descant Upon Creation, Contemplations on the Night, Contemplations on the Starry Heavens, A Winter-piece ...”, p.136

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• You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but God's - not a book that may amuse you, but a book that can save you - not even a book that can instruct you, but a book on which you can venture an eternity - not only a book which can give relief to your spirit, but redemption to your soul - a book which contains salvation, and conveys it to you, one which shall at once be the Saviour's book and the sinner's.

  John Selden

  Book, Men, Giving

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 29), 1895.

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• The Holy Scriptures are that divine instrument by which we are taught what to believe, concerning God, ourselves, and all things, and how to please God unto eternal life.

  John Robinson

  Christian, Believe, Scripture

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• In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world--God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.

  Fulton Oursler

  Book, Writing, Men

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• The reason why we find so many dark places in the Bible is, for the most part, because there are so many dark places in our hearts.

  August Tholuck

  Heart, Dark, Reason Why

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 38, 1895.

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• The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Home, Son, Men

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