What great personalities have said about the bible

 

 UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS

George Washington (First): "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without the Bible."

John Adam (Second): "The Bible is the best book in the world." It contains  more…..than all the libraries I have seen."

Thomas Jeferson (Third): "That book, sir, is the rock on which our Republic rests."

Zachary Taylor (Twelfth): "It was for the love of the truths of this great book that our          Fathers abandoned their native shore for the wilderness."

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteeth): "But for this Book we could not know right from wrong. I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man."

Ulysses S.Grant (Eighteenth): " The Bible is the Anchor of our liberties."

Rutherford B.Hayes(Nineteenth): "The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good."

Benjamin Harrison (Twenty-third);" It is out of the word of God that a system has came to make life sweet."

William Mckinley (Twenty-fifth): "The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book…. the better citizens we will become."

Theodore Roosevelt (Twenty-fifth):  "No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible."

Woodrow Wilson (Twenty-sixth);"The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life"

Herbert Hoover (Thirty-First);   "The whole of the inspirations of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ… to read the Bible…is a necessity of American life."

Fanklin D.Roosevelt (Thirty-second);"It is a fountain of strength ….I feet that a comprehensive study of the Bible is a liberal education for anyone."

Dwight D.Eisenhower (Thirty-fourth);" In the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths."

WORLD LEADERS:
 

William Glanstone: "I have known ninety-five great men of the world in my time, and of these, eighty-seven were followers of the Bible."

Winston Churchill: "We rest with assurance upon the impregnable rock of Holy Scripture."

Chiang Kai-Shek: "The Bible is the voice of the Holy Spirit."

Haile Selassie: "The Bible is not only a great book of historical reference; but it also is a guide for daily life and for this reason I respect it and I love it."

Syngman  Rhee: "Fellow prisoners held the Bible and turned the pages for me because my fingers were so crushed that I could not use them. I read the Bible, and I have read it the rest of my life."

GENERALS:
 

Douglas MacArthur: "Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the word of God before I go to bed"

William K.Harrison: "The Bible is the word of God, given by His inspiration for our use and benefit."

Robert E.Lee: "The Bible is a book in comparison with which all others in my eyes of minor importance, and in which in all my perplexities and distress has never failed to give me light strength."

Stonewall Jackson: "God's promises change not… let us endeavor to a dorm the doctrine of Christ in all things."

Oliver Cromwell(upon hearing Phil 4:11-13 read as he lay dying): "He that was Paul's Christ is my Christ too."

SCIENTISTS:

Sir. Isaac Neuton: "We account the scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatsoever."

Sir Francis Baxon: "The volume of scripture…. reveal the will of God."

Sir John Herschel: "All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming  mere and more strongly the truths come from on high and contained in the  sacred writings…."

Michael Faraday: "Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them."

James Dwight Dana: "Young men, as you go forth, remember that I, and old man, who has known only science all his life, say unto you that there are no true facts than the facts found within the Holy Scriptures."

HISTORIANS:

Arnold j.Toynbee: "It pierces through the Intellect and plays directly upon the heart."

H.G.Wells: "The Bible has been the Book that held together the fabric of Western civilization."

Thomas Calyle: "A  Noble book! All men's book! Grand in its sincerity, in its simplicity, and in its epic melody."

PHYSICIAN:

Mark Hpkins: "Thus we have every conceivable species of historical proof; both external and internal. Thus do the very stones cry out.

Charles W. Mayo: "In sickness or in health, on can find comfort and constructive advice in the Bible."

LAWYERS:

Daniel Webster: "I believe the scriptures of the O.T and the N.T to be the will and the word of God."

Benjamin Franklin: "Young men, my advice to you is that you cultivate an acquaintance with and a firm belief in, the Holy Scripture ."

Patrict Henry: "This is a book worth more than all the others that were ever printed."

EDUCATION:

Timothy Dwight: The Bible is a window in this prison-world through which we may book in to eternity."

William Lyon Phelps: "Everyone who has a through knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without the Bible."

Henry Van Dyke: "No other book in the world has had such a stranger vitality, such an outgoing power of influence who has this treasure for his our."

PHILOSOPHERS AND WRITERS:

Charles Dana: "Of all the books, the most indispensable and the useful, the one whose knowledge is the most effective, is the Bible.'

HoraceGreely: "It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible-reading people."

Immanuel Kant: "The existence of the Bible as a book for the people is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced."

John Locke: "It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter ; it is all pure, sincere, nothing too much, nothing wanting."

Count Leo Tolstoy: "Without the Bible the education of a  child in the present state of society is impossible."

John Ruchkin: "All I have taught in art, everything I have written, whatever I have done in my life, has simply been due to the fact that, when I was a child, my mother daily read with me a part of the Bible, and daily made me learn a part of it by heart."

John Milton: "There are no songs like the songs of the Scriptures, no orations like the orations of the prophets."

William Cowper: "A Glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun: it gives alight to every age-it gives, but borrows none.."

John Dryden: "It speaks no less than God in every line: commanding words whose force  is still the same…"

Sir Walter Scott: "Within this awful volume lies the Mystery of mysteries."

Charles Dickens: "It is the best Book that ever was or ever will be in the word…"

PEOPLE FROM VARIOUS FIELDS:

J. Edgar Hoover: "The Bible is the unfailing guide which points the way for men to the perfect life."

Benard Baruch: "I have always placed the Bible as number one among the four books I think everyone should read and study. There in one will find all the problems that beset mankind."

Helen Keller: "In the Bible I find a confidence mightier than the utmost evil…"

Lowell Thomas: "The Bible is of vital importance in teaching freedom."

King George: "The English Bible is…the most valuable thing that this word affords."

THE CHURCH FATHERS:

Augustine: "Let us give in and yield our assent to the authority of Holy Scripture, which knows not how either to be deceived or to deceive….."

John Chrysostom: "It is a great thing, this reading of the Scriptures! For it is not possible, I say, not possible ever to exhaust the mind of the Scripture. It is a well which has no bottom."

Athanasius: "They were spoken and written by God through men who spoke of God…Let no man add to these, neither let him take ought from these."

Origen: "For my part, I Believe that not one jot or titles of the divine instruction is in vain instruction is in vain. We are never to say that there is anything impertinent or superfluous in the Scripture of the Holy Spirit…"

Jerome: "Give ear for a moment that I may tell you how you are to walk in the Holy Scriptures. All that we read in the Divine Book, while glistening and shining without, is yet far sweeter within."

Luther: "it cannot be otherwise, for the scriptures are Divine: in them God speaks, and they are  His Word. To hear or to read the Scripture is nothing else than to hear God."

Calvin: "The Scriptures is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing necessary and useful to be known is omitted, so nothing is taught which is not beneficial to know."

Abraham Lincoln's famous proverb:

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

Source: Willmington's Guide To the Bible, Dr. H.L Willmington, Christian Literature Crusade 1995