In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- John 1:1
- The Judeo-Christian Bible -
The Best Quotes from Famous and/or Important People about the Bible
The following collection of quotations were found throughout the internet on various websites, many of whom were related in some manner to the Judeo-Christian tradition. Here are just a few of some of the best quotes about the Bible ever known in the history of man:
All quotes have been set in accented letters for easier reading and reference-
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To read the Bible is to take a trip to a fair land where the spirit is strengthened & faith renewed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.
- Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
Yes, I read the Bible- every God-damned day!
- George S. Patton (1885-1945)
The Bible contains more philosophy than all the libraries that I have ever seen, & such parts as I cannot reconcile with my little philosophy, I postpone for future investigation.
- John Adams (1735-1826)
The first & almost only book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. I speak as a man of the World. 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 & respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.
- John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Saviour of the World is communicated to us through this book.
- Abraham Lincoln (1909-1865)
I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book that you can by reason, & the balance by faith, & you will live & die a better man. It is the best Book which God has given to man.
- Abraham Lincoln (1909-1865)
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. Almost every man who has by his lifework added to the sum of human achievement...has based his lifework largely upon the teachings of the Bible.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the World who has deprived himself of a knowledge of the Bible.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals etc...he who seeks for guidance...may look inside its covers & find illumination.
- Hebert Hoover (1874-1964)
The influence of the Bible in the early days of the Republic is plainly revealed in the writing & thinking of the men who made the nation possible...They found in the Scriptures that which shaped their course & determined their cause.
- Franklin Rooselvelt (1882-1945)
To the influence of the Book we are indebted for the progress made in civilisation, & to this we must look as our guide in the future. The Bible is the sheet-anchor of our liberties.
- Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor & oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it.
- Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)
There is abundant evidence that the Bible, though written by men, is not the product of the human mind. By countless multitudes it has always been revered as a communication to us from the Creator of the Universe.
- Sir Ambrose Fleming (1849-1948)
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
- Bishop Desmond Tutu
We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
- Charles Kingsley
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Bible itself is intolerant, and true followers of God's word should be as well.
- Bob Jones III, president of Bob Jones University
Any number of people assume that the Bible says that Eve ate an apple, or that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Yet the Bible never says a word about whales or apples...It is unfair to turn round and blame the Bible because of all these legends and jokes and journalistic allusions, which are read into the Bible by people who have not read the Bible.
- G. K. Chesterton
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
- Robert Ingersoll
Both read the Bible day and night; but you read black where I read white.
- William Blake
If there is anything in my thoughts or style to commend, the credit is due to my parents for instilling in me an early love of the Scriptures. 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 propound obscurity.
- Daniel Webster
The existence of the Bible as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.
- Immanuel Kane
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
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
- George Washington
The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.
- Thomas Carlyle
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
The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.
- Immanuel Kant
The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it.
- Thomas Huxley
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
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
- Sir Isaac Newton
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
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
The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed.
- Patrick Henry
The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
- Thomas Paine
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 a year.
- John Quincy Adams
The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever growing influence of the Bible.
- W.H. Seward
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
- George Washington (1732-1799)
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th U.S. President
I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these, eighty-seven were followers of the Bible. The Bible is stamped with a Specialty of Origin, and an immeasurable distance separates it from all competitors.
- William Gladstone (1809-1898)
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)
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says. He is always convinced that it says what he means.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.
- William Sloane Coffin
In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not merely a sacred book but a book so remorselessly and continuously sacred that it does not invite -- it excludes or repels -- the merely aesthetic approach. ...I predict that it will in the future be read, as it always has been read, almost exclusively by Christians.
- C.S. Lewis
Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.
- Henry Ward Beecher
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
- Thomas Paine
I am going to put the Bible out of business.
- Robert Ingersoll
The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.
- Napoleon
Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated.
- C.S. Lewis
Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!
- Voltaire
Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages.
- Corrie Ten Boom
In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity, the Bible... this grandiose, stirring history of the gradual revelation and unfolding of moral law... remains in every way an up-to-date book. Our knowledge and use of the laws of nature that enable us to fly to the moon also enable us to destroy our home planet with the atom bomb. Science itself does not address the question whether we should use the power at our disposal for good or for evil. The guidelines of what we ought to do are furnished in the moral law of God. It is no longer enough that we pray that God may be with us on our side. We must learn again to pray that we may be on God's side.
- Werner Von Braun
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer. I can take my telescope & look millions of miles into space; but I can go away to my room & in prayer get nearer to God & Heaven than I can when assisted by all the telescopes of Earth.
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Bible reading is an education in itself.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
May the LORD God bless you in the name of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
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SOURCES(s): (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/biblquot.htm)
(http://www.tentmaker.org/Quotes/biblequotes.htm)
(http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/6040894/national_bible_week_famous_quotes_about_pg2.html?cat=38)
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
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
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.
- A. W. Tozer
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more & more strongly the truth contained in the Sacred Scriptures.
- Sir William Herschel (1738-1822)
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has even given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.
- Abraham Lincoln
The letter of Scripture is a veil just as much as it is a revelation; hiding while it reveals, and yet revealing while it hides.
- Andrew Jukes
Who decides what is right and wrong in the world? Who has the authority to define morality for all of creation? It is not the courts, congress, the media, public opinion, the "politically correct" police, the "tolerance" brigade or even the church. The only answer has been, is and always will be Jesus Christ. You can find His opinion on a great variety of subjects in His best seller...The Bible.
- Jeffrey E. Ramey
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
We do not deny, nay we affirm and avow, that the very meanest translation of the Bible in English, set forth by men of our profession,...containeth the word of God, nay, is the word of God: as the King’s speech which he uttered in Parliament, being translated into French, Dutch, Italian, and Latin, is still the King’s speech, though it not be interpreted by every translator with the like grace nor peradventure so fitly for phrase, nor so expressly for sense, everywhere.
- From the translators to the readers in the introduction to the original 1611 King James Bible.
Samuel
