207. "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
208. "When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, it is talking to me, and about me." Soren Kierkegaard
209. "You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in new York."---William Lyon Phelps
210. "The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world."---Charles Dickens
211. "What you bring away from the Bible depends to some extent on what you carry to it."---Oliver Wendell Holmes
212. "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
213. "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
214. "Intense study of the Bible will keep any man from being vulgar in point of style."---Samuel Taylor Coleridge
215. "'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
216. "Read the whole Bible, and read it in order; two chapters in the Old Testament and one in the New Testament, 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 Clarke, a Methodist circuit preacher of the nineteenth century, believed that only through regular Bible reading would Christians grow wise in their salvation.
217. "You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give in to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it."---Martin Luther
