BIBLE

Related Subjects: Christ, Christianity, Faith, God, Miracle, Preacher, Prophecy, Religion

1. We have been careful that they that will read may have delight, and that they that are desirous to commit to memory might have ease, and that all into whose hands it comes might have profit.—Apocrypha: 2 Maccabees
   

2. Holy Bible, book divine,
   Precious treasure, thou art mine;
   Mine to teach me whence I came,
   Mine to teach me what I am.—JOHN BURTON, Holy Bible, Book Divine
   

3. In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.—CARLYLE, Essays
   

4. His studie was but litel on the bible.—CHAUCER, The Canterbury Tales
   

5. A glory gilds the sacred page,
   Majestic like the sun,
   It gives a light to ev'ry age,
   It gives, but borrows none.—COWPER, Olney Hymns
   

6. The text of the Bible is but a feeble symbol of the, Revelation held in the text of Men and Women.—HAVELOCK ELLIS, Impressions and Comments
   

7. There are few among us who have not suffered from too early familiarity with the Bible and the conceptions of religion.—HAVELOCK ELLIS, The Task of Social Hygiene

8. The Bible is like an old Cremona; it has been played upon by the devotion of thousands of years until every word and particle is public and tunable.—EMERSON, Letters and Social Aims
   

9. My relations were much troubled at me that I would not go with them to hear the priest; for I would get into the orchard or the fields with my Bible by myself.—GEORGE Fox, Journal
   

10. The book of books, the store­house and magazine of life and comfort, the Holy Scriptures.—GEORGE HERBERT, A Priest to the Temple
    

11. Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.—GEORGE HERBERT, Sinne
    

12. On Bible stilts I don't affect to stalk,
    Nor lard with Scripture my familiar talk.—THOMAS HOOD, Ode to Rae Wilson
    

13. As long as woman regards the Bible as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. The Bible was not written by a woman. Within its lids there is nothing but humiliation and shame for her.—ROBERT INGERSOLL, The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
    

14. 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.—MACAULAY, On John Dryden
    

15. The Bible is literature, not dogma.—SANTAYANA, Introduction to The
    Ethics of Spinoza
    

16. Within that awful volume lies
    The mystery of mysteries!—SCOTT, The Monastery
    

17. The Scripture, in time of disputes, is like an open town in time of war, which serves indifferently the occasions of both parties.—SWIFT, Thoughts on Various Subjects

18. O Bible! say I, "What follies and monstrous barbarities are defended in thy name."—WALT WHITMAN