Monday, June 29, 2015

Famous Quotes about the Bible l

   195.   "The Book of Books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort."---George Herbert

   196. "Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New Testament."---Francis Bacon

   197.   "Most people are bothered by those passages in Scripture which they cannot understand; but as for me...the passages which trouble me the most are those that I do understand."---Mark Twain

   198.   "The English Bible, a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of it's beauty and power."---Thomas Babington Macaulay

   199.   "The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity."---John Sullivan Dwight

   200.   "If you believe those four words, 'In the beginning God,' you have no problem believing all of the Bible."---Raymond Barber

   201.   "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

   205.   "The Bible is no mere book,  but a living creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it."---Napoleon Bonaparte

   206.   "In the twentieth century our highest praise has been to call the Bible 'the world's best-seller.' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say we think it is a best-seller because it is great, or vice versa."---Daniel Boorstin