Ancient Quote by Isaac Newton

“To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for…

— John Warwick Montgomery

There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith…

— Boyd K. Packer

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

— Thomas Aquinas

“Study of the scriptures is not the same as the study of religion and God. So far, we don't yet have a proper field…

— Abhijit Naskar

If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.

— Nachman of Breslov

To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only that it…

— John Andreas Widtsoe

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.

— Roy L. Smith

To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so called, such as the Koran...or the book of Mormon, is positively absurd. You…

— J. C. Ryle

“This debate over Genesis revealed a major disagreement among second-century Christians, a disagreement whose outcome would shape church doctrine ever after.”

— Elaine Pagels

“What we think of as the twenty-seven books of “the” New Testament emerged out of these conflicts, and it was the side that won…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“Our accepted chronology of the ancient church is wrong: ancient Semitic Christianity dies out not in the fourth century, but in the fourteenth.8”

— Philip Jenkins

At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original.…

— Daniel B. Wallace