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Bible study is like eating peanuts. The more you eat, the more you want to eat. (ABBA )
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. (ABBA )
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. (ABBA )
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. (ABBA )
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The Good Book -- one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever copied. (ABBA )
I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me. (ABBA )
The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible. (ABBA )
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. (ABBA )
People cannot be well educated without the Bible. (ABBA )
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. (ABBA )
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. (ABBA )
The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties. (ABBA )
More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure. (ABBA )
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. (ABBA )
The Bible among other books is as a diamond among precious stones. (ABBA )
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache. (ABBA )
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation? (ABBA )
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian. (ABBA )
When Thomas Paine showed Benjamin Franklin the manuscript of The Age of Reason, Franklin advised him not to publish it, saying, The world is bad enough with the Bible; what would it be without it? (ABBA )
I have read many books, but the Bible reads me. (ABBA )
Those who spiritualize tell spiritual lies, because they lack spiritual eyes. (ABBA )
My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small. (ABBA )
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New. (ABBA )
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty. (ABBA )
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. (ABBA )
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