"To live by grace means we understand that God's blessing on our lives is not conditioned by our obedience or disobedience but by the perfect obedience of Christ. It means that out of a grateful response to the grace of God, we seek to understand His will and to obey Him, not to be blessed, but because we have been blessed."
-(Jerry Bridges)
"Most people are bothered by those passages in Scripture which they cannot understand. The Scripture which troubles me most is the Scripture I do understand."
-(Mark Twain)
"The Bible is not in a class. It constitutes a class by itself."
-(Emile Cailliet)
"The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him."
-(A.W. Tozer)
"There are a good many problems before the American people today, and before me as President, but I expect to find the solution of those problems just in the proportion that I am faithful in the study of the Word of God."
-(Woodrow Wilson, 28th President)
"The nearer (the Christian) approaches God, the more he becomes aware of his own sin . . . The more the Christian grows in Christ-likeness, the more he perceives the vastness of the distance which still separates him from Christ."
-(John Stott)
"Those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord."
-(Abraham Lincoln, 14th President)
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
-(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."
-(George Washington, 1st President)
"What makes the difference is not how many times you have been through the Bible, but how many times and how thoroughly the Bible has been through you."
-(Gipsy Smith)
"Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him . . . To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribound souls"
-(R.C. Sproul)
"Either Sin will keep you from this Book, or this Book will keep you from sin."
-(Dwight L. Moody)
"I am sorry for the men who do not read the Bible every day; I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and of the pleasure. It is one of the most singular books in the world, for every time you open it, some old text that you have read a score of times suddenly beams with a new meaning. There is no other book I know of, of which this is true; there is no other book that yields its meaning so personally, that seems to fit itself so intimately to the very spirit that is seeking its guidance."
-(Woodrow Wilson 28th President of the United States)
"Sin will take you farther than you intended to go,
keep you longer than you intended to stay,
and cost you more than you intended to pay".
-(WiseManSay)
"What the brush is to the artist in painting a picture, what the hammer is to the carpenter in driving a nail, what water is to the laundress in washing clothes, so the Bible is to God in saving souls."
-(Donald Grey Barnhouse)
"Take all this Book you can upon reason and the balance upon faith, and you will live and die a better man."
-(Abraham Lincoln)
"From early childhood I was taught to appreciate the Bible, and my love for it increases with the passage of time. All through my troubles, I have found it a source of infinite comfort."
-(Emperor Haile Selassie)
"The Bible is endorsed by the ages. Our civilization is built upon its words. In no other book is there such a collection of inspired wisdom, reality, and hope."
-(Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President)
"One of the marks of spiritual maturity is the quiet confidence that God is in control - without the need to understand why He does what He does."
-(from "Starting Over")
"That Book, sir, is the rock on which our republic rests."
-(Andrew Jackson, 7th President)
"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to men. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book."
-(Abraham Lincoln, 16th President)