Favorite Quotations ~  Bible One Year Bible Companion

"The Bible is a postgraduate course in the richest library of human experience." ~ Herbert Hoover

Creation of Adam

The Holy Bible is not only great but high explosive literature. ~ Stanley Baldwin

Gather the riches of God's promises. Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible, which you have learned by heart. ~ Corrie ten Boom

Without the Bible or without Mozart, life wouldn't be worth living. ~ Marc Chagall

The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity. ~ Immanuel Kant

A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of the Bible. ~ Woodrow Wilson

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

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at a greater depth of my being than any other book. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury. ~ Franz Liszt

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. ~ James McCosh