Great Men Not Afraid To Speak Out
John Greenleaf Whittier:
We search the world for truth, we cull
The good, the pure, the beautiful,
From graven stone and written scroll,
From the old flower-fields of the soul,
And, weary seekers for the best,
We come back laden from our quest,
To find that all the sages said
Is in the Book our mothers read.
George Washington:
"Above all, the pure and benign light of Revelation (the Word of God)
has had a meliorating (improving) influence on mankind, and increased the blessings of society.
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."
Thomas Jefferson:
"The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty."
John Quincy Adams:
The first and almost the only book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. I speak as a man of the world..., and I say to you, “Search the Scriptures.”
Ulysses S. Grant:
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties; write its precepts on your hearts and practice them in your lives. To the influence of this book we are indebted for the progress made, and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
Abraham Lincoln:
I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this book upon reason that you can and the balance by faith, and you will live and die a better man.
Daniel Webster:
"I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book on reason that you can and the rest on faith and you will live and die a better man."
Theodore Roosevelt:
Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of which our people are proud, almost every such man has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the Bible.
Horace Greeley:
It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible-reading people.
Thomas Huxley:
The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and oppressed.
Immanuel Kant:
The existence of the Bible as a book for the people is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. (German Philosopher)
Robert A. Millikan:
I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible and indispensable qualification of a well-educated man. Contact with the finest influences which have ever come into human life can be obtained only in this way. (Nobel Prize -American Scientist)
Herbert Hoover:
Whether it be of the law, business, morals, or that vision which leads the imagination in the creation of constructive enterprises for the happiness of mankind, he who looks for guidance in any of these things may look inside its (the Bible) covers and find illumination.
George V (Emperor-British Empire):
It is my confident hope that my subjects may never cease to cherish their noble inheritance in the English Bible, which, in a secular aspect, is the first of national treasures and is, in its spiritual significance, the most valuable thing that this world affords.
Mahatma Gandhi:
The book that has influenced me the most, the Bible.
William E. Gladstone:
"God's best and richest gift to mankind." (The Bible.)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: (English Poet & Critic.)
"To give a history of the Bible as a book would be little else than to relate the origin or first excitement of all of the literature we possess. From this storehouse of literary material our leading writers have most freely drawn."
C.H. Spurgeon:
"To us Holy Scriptures is as the tower of a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men."
"If we want weapons we must come here for them, and here only. Whether we seek the sword of offence or the shield of defence, we must find it within the volume of inspiration. If others have any other storehouse, I confess at once that I have none. I have nothing esle to preach when I have got through with this book, I can have no wish to preach at all if I may not continue to expound the subjects which I find in these pages."
Matthew 10:32,33
[32] Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven.
[33] But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.
