Books Quote by John Adams

What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull…

— John Adams

No other book has been so chopped, knifed, sifted, scrutinized, and vilified. What book on philosophy or religion or psychology or belles lettres of…

— Bernard Ramm

“12. Historians today rely on classics like Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, Caesar’s Gallic War, and Tacitus’s Histories. The earliest copies we have…

— Michael S. Horton

“Scientific works and entire libraries were set to torch kindled by the insane religious fanatics. We have already mentioned the Bishop of Yucatan, who…

— Petr Beckman

“Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it is of…

— Thomas Paine

The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.

— Charles Colson

Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper Egypt, someone,…

— Elaine Pagels

Is there a more violent book than the Bible?

— George Pelecanos

“I do not mean to exclude books of history, poetry, or even fables from our schools. They may and should be read frequently by…

— Benjamin Rush

“The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus--in other words, by the end of…

— N.T. Wright

“If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?”

— Jacques Maritain

To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology…

— Richard Dawkins