No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year… My custom is, to… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the Koran is,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
“If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and thorough reform… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
“It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
