Famous Bible Quotes
from Famous People

What do the famous say about the Bible. Here is a list of famous Bible Quotes from some popular figures from History.

Abraham Lincoln

"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book."

W. E. Gladstone

"I have know 95 of the world's greatest men in my time, and of these 87 were followers of the Bible. The Bible is stamped with a Specialty of Origin, and an immeasurable distance separates it from all competitors."

George Washington

"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."

Napoleon

"The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it."

Queen Victoria

"That book accounts for the supremacy of England."

Daniel Webster

"If there is anything in my thoughts or style to commend, the credit is due to my parents for instilling in my 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 can our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and busy all our glory in profound obscurity."

Thomas Carlyle

"The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home."

John Ruskin

"Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart."

Charles A. Dana

"The grand old Book still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the pages of the Sacred Word."

Thomas Huxley

"The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it."

W. H. Seward

"The whole hope of human progress i suspended on the ever growing influence of the Bible."

Patrick Henry

"The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed."

U. S. Grant

"The Bible is the sheet-anchor of our liberties."

Andrew Jackson

"That book, sir, is the rock on which our republic rests."

Robert E. Lee

"In my perplexities and distress, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength."

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 of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year."

Charles Dickens

"The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be know in the world."

Sir Isaac Newton

"There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history."

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