Replies to post #32730 on Jesus__Man, God, Alien

[Dale C]

Some need assurance that they are more than a hairless ape.

[JONAH 2]

Charles Dickens
Author Charles Dickens is straight to the point in saying that the Bible is the great book ever created in his famous quote, "The New Testament is the best book the world has ever known or will know."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization, science, law--, in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading the way." Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English poet, explains that everything including our morals are based on beliefs in the Bible.

Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was a general and a United States president. In his famous quote about the Bible Grant reiterates that the Bible shapes much of our civilization and he also encourages us to practice what the Bible says. "Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write it precepts in your hearts and practice them in your lives. To the influence of this book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization, and to this we must look as our guide for the future."

Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson believed that studying the Bible would make us all greater people. "I have always said...that the studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands."

Abraham Lincoln
Former United States President Abraham Lincoln is another famous person that believes the Bible is our example of what is right and what is wrong. "This great book is the best gift God has given to man...But for it we could not know right from wrong."

[JONAH 2]

“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”
Ronald Reagan

“You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.”
? Mahatma Gandhi

“We don’t exhaust the Bible even after reading it hundreds of times. Each time we read it we see it in a new light. That is the greatness of the holy scriptures. They are that way because they were created by holy prophets who experienced the truth. Each time we read these works we elevate ourselves to see a little more. (81)”
? Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras

[JONAH 2]

your quote --
"The Bible was written for the emotionally and/or mentally retarded."

John Quincy Adams
"So great is my veneration for the BIBLE that the earlier my children begin to read it, the more confident will be
my hope that they will prove useful citizens to their country and respectable members of society

George Washington Carver
"The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the BIBLE,
"In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths"

Calvin Coolidge
"The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the BIBLE that it would be
difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country"

Queen Elizabeth
"To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in
this Treasure House, the BIBLE?"

Benjamin Franklin
"We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the L-RD build the House, they labor in vain that build it'
I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall
become a reproach and a by word down to future ages"

Herbert Hoover
"There is no other book so various as the BIBLE, nor one so full on concentrated wisdom"

Sir Isaac Newton
"We account the Scriptures of G-D to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in
the BIBLE than in any profane history whatsoever"

Theodore Roosevelt
"It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the BIBLE.
No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the BIBLE"

Sir Walter Scott
"The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of the BIBLE.
The more deeply he works the mine, the richer and more abundant he finds the ore."

Daniel Webster
"If there is anything in my thoughts or style to commend, the credit is due my parents for instilling in me an early love of
the Scriptures. If we abide by the principles taught in the BIBLE, our country will go on prospering and to prosper;
but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may
overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity"

Woodrow Wilson
"I am sorry for men who do not read the BIBLE every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure"
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"When you have read the BIBLE, you know it is the W-rd of G-D, because it is the key to your heart,
your own happiness, and your own duty"
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