The following quotes from famous people concerning the Bible, comes from the book "1001 Surprising Things You Should Know about the Bible" by Jerry MacGregor and Marie Prys.
" "The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures." - George Herbert
"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New." - Francis Bacon
"Most people are bothered by those passages in Scripture which they cannot understand; but as for me...the passages which trouble me most are those I do understand." - Mark Twain
"The English Bible, a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power." - Thomas Babington Macaulay
"The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity." - John Sullivan Dwight
"If you believe those four words, 'In the beginning God,' you have no problem believing all the Bible." - Ramond Barber
"Unless I am convicted of error by the testimony of Scripture or by manifest reasoning, I stand convicted by the Scriptures to which I have appealed, and my conscience is taken captive by God's word." - Martin Luther
"A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere - Bibles laid open, millions of surprises' - ...God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous." - C. S. Lewis
"Either the Bible will keep you away from sin, or sin will keep you away from the Bible!" - Author Unknown
"The Bible is no mere book, but a living creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach." - John Milton
"When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, it is talking to me, and about me." - Soren Kierkegaard
"You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York." - William Lyon Phelps
"The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world." - Charles Dickens
"What you bring away from the Bible depends to some extent on what you carry to it." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The Bible is alive, it speaks to me, it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold on me." - Martin Luther
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people." - G. K. Chesterton
"Intense study of the Bible will keep any man from being vulgar in point of style." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"'The Bible,' we are told sometimes, 'gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be.' Nonsense! It gives us no picture at all. It reveals to us a fact: it tells us what we really are; it says, This is the form in which God created you, to which He has restored you; this is the work which the Eternal Son, the God of Truth and Love, is continually carrying on within you." - F. D. Maurice
"Read the whole Bible, and read it in order, two chapters in the Old Testament and one in the New, daily if you can possibly spare the time; and you will have more time than you are aware of; if you retrench all needless visits, and save the hours spent in useless or unimportant conversation." - Adam Clark, a Methodist circuit preacher of the nineteenth century, believed that only through regular Bible reading would Christians grow wise in their salvation.
"You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it." - Martin Luther "
By George Konig
11/11/2007
www.georgekonig.org
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