Great English Quotes and Aphorisms on Bible by famous writers

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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON BIBLE

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

Fisher Ames (1758-1808, American statesman)

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American preacher, orator, writer)

The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American preacher, orator, writer)

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

William Blake (1757-1827, British poet, painter)

I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)

There is no doubt that God has often brought a certain verse to the attention of one of His children in an unusual and almost miraculous manner, for a special need, but the Word was never intended to be consulted in a superstitious manner.

Maxwell S. Coder

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834, British poet, critic, philosopher)

The study of the Bible will keep anyone from being vulgar in style.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834, British poet, critic, philosopher)

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

Queen Elizabeth (1926-, British Queen)

When the white man came, we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles.

Chief Dan George (1899-1977, Native American author)

For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)

No one ever graduates from Bible study until he meets its Author face to face.

Everett Harris

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856, German poet, journalist)

Well, Fitz, I looked all through that bible, it was in very fine print and stumbling on that great book Ecclesiastics, read it aloud to all who would listen. Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in it -- although I found the source of practically every good title you ever heard of. But the boys, principally Kipling, had been there before me and swiped all the good ones so I called the book Men Without Women hoping it would have a large sale among the fairies and old Vassar Girls.

Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961, American writer)

England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist)

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me."

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855, Danish philosopher, writer)

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895, British biologist, educator)

There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.

Helen Keller (1880-1968, American blind/deaf author, lecturer, amorist)

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

Helen Keller (1880-1968, American blind/deaf author, lecturer, amorist)

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875, British author, clergyman)

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

Robert E. Lee (1807-1870, American confederate army commander)

Either this is not the Gospel, or we are not Christians.

Thomas Linacre

Bible study is like eating peanuts. The more you eat, the more you want to eat.

Paul Little

The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.

Francis Lockier (1668-1740, British prelate, man of letters)

First I shake the whole apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

Martin Luther (1483-1546, German leader of the protestant reformation)

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 B. Macaulay (1800-1859, American essayist and historian)

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899, American evangelist)

Light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.

Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899, American evangelist)

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.

Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899, American evangelist)

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899, American evangelist)

A readiness to believe every promise implicitly, to obey every command unhesitatingly, to stand perfect and complete in all the will of God, is the only true spirit of Bible study.

Andrew Murray

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world -- God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.

Fulton Oursler

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809, Anglo-American political theorist, writer)

The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves indifferently the occasions of both parties.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744, British poet, critic, translator)

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, American President (26th))

There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.

Roy L. Smith (American clergyman)

To me, the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to what I call the vision of God is the story which is told in the Bible.

Jan Christian Smuts (1870-1950, South African Prime Minister)

God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.

R. A. Torrey

A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.