Affair Quote by Henry David Thoreau

If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to…

— Lysander Spooner

It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral atmosphere quite…

— Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

“In the continually shifting marketplace of ideas, religious concepts and speculations about our spiritual destiny, there is one book which stands apart from all…

— Grant R. Jeffrey

Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.

— James McHenry

Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if…

— John Gresham Machen

Scripture paints men as they really are, hiding none of their blemishes or barbaric ways. The honesty of scripture is one of the reasons…

— Dennis Rainey

“Humanity is an organism, inherently rejecting all that is deleterious, that is, wrong, and absorbing after trial what is beneficial, that is, right. If…

— Andrew Carnegie

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.

— Johnny Appleseed

A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The piety of "having a personal relationship with Christ" ... is alien to the New Testament... but evangelicals elevate it to the shibboleth of…

— Robert M. Price