| Quote about the Bible | Person speaking | bio of speaker |
| 'I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.' | |
| 'When 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.' | |
| 'Bible reading is an education in itself.' | |
| 'It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.' | |
| '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.' | |
| 'Take all of this Book that you can by reason and the balance by faith, and you will live and die a better man.' | |
| 'Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.' | |
| 'It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. ' | |
| 'The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed.' | |
| 'No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.' | |
| | Quote about the Bible | Person speaking | bio of speaker |
| '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.' | |
| 'When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, 'It is talking to me, and about me.' | |
| '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..' | |
| 'Never place a period where God has placed a comma. God is still speaking.' | |
| 'I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth.' | |
| 'The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.' | |
| 'The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed. ' | |
| 'There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.' | |
| 'It demands incessantly to be taken on its own terms: it will not continue to give literary delight very long, except to those who go to it for something quite different.' | |
| 'The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it.' | |
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