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“Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse
said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the
God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my
tongue.”
Bible Quotes Source: II Samuel (ch. XXIII, v. 1-2)
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“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”
Bible Quotes Source: Psalms (ch. CXIX, v. 105)
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“I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy
testimonies are my meditation.”
Bible Quotes Source: Psalms (ch. CXIX, v. 99)
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“His studie was but litel on the Bible.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 4)
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“A glory gilds the sacred page,
Majestic like the sun,
It gives a light to every age,
It gives, but borrows none.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Olney Hymns (no. 30)
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“One day at least in every week,
The sects of every kind
Their doctrines here are sure to seek,
And just as sure to find.”
Augustus de Morgan Quotes Source: in preface to "From Matter to Spirit"
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“And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere
Free from corruption, or entire, or clear,
Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire
In all things which our needful faith require.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Religio Laici (l. 297)
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“Out from the heart of nature rolled
The burdens of the Bible old.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: The Problem
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“The word unto the prophet spoken
Was writ on tablets yet unbroken:
The word by seers or sibyls told,
In groves of oak or fanes of gold,
Still floats upon the morning wind,
Still whispers to the willing mind.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: The Problem
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“It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the
Gospel is good fare."”
Matthew (Mathew) Henry Quotes Source: Commentaries
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“Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant
would drown.”
Matthew (Mathew) Henry Quotes Source: Of Solomon's Song
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“Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.”
George Herbert Quotes Source: The Church--Sin
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“Starres are poore books, and oftentimes do misse;
This book of starres lights to eternal blisse.”
George Herbert Quotes Source: The Church--The Holy Scriptures (pt. II)
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“So we're all right, an' I, for one,
Don't think our cause'll lose in vally
By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun,
An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: The Biglow Papers (second series, no. 7, st. 17)
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“The history of every individual man should be a Bible.”
Novalis (pseudonym of Frederick von Hardenburg) Quotes Source: Christianity or Europe, (Carlyle's translation)
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“Most wondrous book! bright candle of the Lord!
Star of Eternity! The only star
By which the bark of man could navigate
The sea of life, and gain the coast of bliss
Securely.”
Robert Pollok Quotes Source: Course of Time (bk. II, l. 270)
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“Within that awful volume lies
The mystery of mysteries!
Happiest they of human race,
To whom God has granted grace
To read, to fear, to hope, to pray,
To lift the latch, and force the way:
And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.”
Sir Walter Scott Quotes Source: The Monastery (vol. 1, ch. XII)
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“But Thy good word informs my soul
How I may climb to heaven.”
Isaac Watts Quotes Source: Excellency of the Bible
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“How glad the heathens would have been,
That worship idols, wood and stone,
If they the book God had seen.”
Isaac Watts Quotes Source: Praise for the Gospel
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“The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book
of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from
God.”
Daniel Webster Quotes Source: Completion of Bunker Hill Monument
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“We search the world for truth; we cull
The good, the pure, the beautiful,
From all old flower fields of the soul;
And, weary seeker of the best,
We come back laden from out quest,
To find that all the sages said
Is in the Book our mothers read.”
John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes Source: Miriam
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