The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity.
Bible Quotes
The Bible as we have it contains elements that are scientifically incorrect or even morally repugnant. No amount of “explaining away” can convince us that such passages are the product of Divine Wisdom.
Come to the Bible, not to study the history of God’s divine action, but to be its object; not to learn what it has achieved throughout the centuries and still does, but simply to be the subject of its operation.
All Bibles are man-made.
Standardization of texts wasn’t a high priority in the early years of printing. Spelling showed considerable variety, and punctuation and grammar weren’t much more consistent. Copies of the “same” edition were rarely identical. There are no two identical copies of the first folio edition of Shakespeare’s works (of which probably a thousand “copies” were printed […]
Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.
Be assiduous in reading the Holy Scriptures. This is the fountain whence all knowledge in divinity must be derived. Therefore let not this treasure lie by you neglected.
We have now, it seems a National Bible Society, to propagate King James’s Bible, through all Nations. Would it not be better, to apply these pious Subscriptions, to purify Christendom from the Corruptions of Christianity; than to propagate those Corruptions in Europe, Asia, Africa and America!
The Bible is the best book in the world. It contains more of my little philosophy than all the libraries I have seen; and such parts of it as I cannot reconcile to my little philosophy, I postpone for future investigation.
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 to their country, and respectable members of society.
