To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as that of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.
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 to their country and respectable members of society.
J. Q. Adams (1767-1848) 6th President of the United States
Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man’s obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and guide would be gone; the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!
Henry Ward Beecher (1627-1691) Minister, abolitionist
Bad men or devils would not have written the Bible, for it condemns them and their works, good men or angels could not have written it, for in saying it was from God when it was but their own invention, they would have been guilty of falsehood, and thus could not have been good. The only remaining being who could have written it, is God-its real author
John Flavel (1627-1691) English Clergy
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 (1811-1872) American newspaper editor and publisher The word of God will stand a thousand readings; and he who has gone over it most frequently is the surest of finding new wonders there.
James Hamilton (1814-1867) English Clergy
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths contained in the sacred Scripture.
Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871) Astronomer, Physicist
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855) Danish philosopher,
theologian, poet, social critic, religious author,
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
John Locke (1632-1704) English Philosopher Physician
A readiness to believe every promise implicitly, to obey every command unhesitatingly, to stand perfect and complete in all the will of God, is the only true spirit of Bible study.
Andrew Murray (1828-1917) South African Religious Leader and Evangelist
I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.
Reading the Bible; The Mackmillan Co., 1919, William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943);
Lampson professor of English literature at Yale
Let the world progress as much as it likes; Let all branches of human research develop to the very utmost; nothing will take the place of the Bible.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman
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