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Quotes about bible
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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. (ABBA )
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. (ABBA )
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. (ABBA )
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. (ABBA )
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. (ABBA )
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. (ABBA )
The law of Thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces. [Psalm 119:72] (ABBA )
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. (ABBA )
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. (ABBA )
I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen. (ABBA )
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. (ABBA )
The study of the Bible will keep anyone from being vulgar in style. (ABBA )
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. (ABBA )
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible? (ABBA )
When the white man came, we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles. (ABBA )
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. (ABBA )
No one ever graduates from Bible study until he meets its Author face to face. (ABBA )
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. (ABBA )
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. (ABBA )
England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible. (ABBA )
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. (ABBA )
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. (ABBA )
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. (ABBA )
In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength. (ABBA )
Either this is not the Gospel, or we are not Christians. (ABBA )
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