Faith & Reason Nexus

The Bible in the Words of Admirers

• George Bernard Shaw
• More up-to-date than the morning newspapers.
• Patrick Henry
• Worth more than all others ever printed.
• John Adams
• The best book in the world.
• Sir Walter Scott
• The one and only book.
• Rousseau
• Majestic compared to the works of philosophers.
• Charles Dickens
• The very best book known to the world.
• Psalm 119:105
• “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
• Macaulay
• The English Bible demonstrates beauty and power.
• John Ruskin
• Merit in writings due to mother’s daily reading.
• Matthew Arnold
• Return to the Bible is inevitable.
• Immanuel Kant
• Greatest benefit experienced by humanity.
• George Washington
• Impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
• Queen Victoria
• The reason for England’s supremacy.
• Sir Walter Scott (Again)
• The rock on which the republic stands.
• Horace Greeley
• Principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
• Robert E. Lee
• Bible never fails to give light and strength.
• Daniel Webster (First Quote)
• Parents instilled an early love for the Scriptures.
• Daniel Webster (Second Quote)
• Pity for those who cannot find rich thoughts and a rule of conduct in the Bible.
• Thomas Huxley
• The Magna Charta of the poor and oppressed.
• Abraham Lincoln
• Profitably engaged in Bible reading.
• Napoleon
• The Bible is a living creature with conquering power.
• Ulysses S. Grant
• The sheet-anchor of liberties.
• Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Bible reading is an education in itself.
• Rousseau (Again)
• Knowledge of the Bible without a college education is more valuable.
• W. H. Seward
• The hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.
• Sir Isaac Newton
• More sure marks of authenticity than profane history.
• John Quincy Adams
• The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.
• Sir William Herschel
• All human discoveries confirm the truths contained in the sacred Scriptures.