Bible Quote by David Norton

“The most determining external influence on his style was unquestionably the old, so-called King James version of the English Bible. His language is saturated…

— Jonathan Edwards

I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

“The language of the King James Bible is the language of patriarchy, of an instructed order, of richness as a form of beauty, of…

— Adam Nicolson

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

— C. S. Lewis

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

— John Millington Synge

Readable, faithful, accurate-what more could you ask for in a modern translation of the Bible? GOD'S WORD Translation is a great version for enhancing…

— Ann Spangler

In case any are puzzled by the different translations from which I draw strength and help and delight, it is like this: In studying…

— Amy Carmichael

“A Bible not read is like a bulb not lighted. Only insane people will love to work in the darkness with Kings' bulbs which…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings;…

— Jonathan Swift

“If you think of the King James Bible as the greatest creation of seventeenth-century England,”

— Adam Nicolson

I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

— Penelope Lively

“The influence of [the Geneva Bible] on the KJV was enormous. The KJV translators employed this as much as Tyndale’s (of course, much of…

— Ron Rhodes