Being Quote by Lysander Spooner

The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the…

— Henry David Thoreau

[On the New Testament:] I ... must enter my protest against the false translation of some passages by the men who did that work,…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

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

Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content…

— Henry David Thoreau

“But what if the Bible was not God’s word? What if it was just a collection of books and letters written by men: expressing…

— Steve McRoberts

One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

It would be worthy of the age to print together the collected Scriptures or Sacred Writings of the several nations, the Chinese, the Hindoos,…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— James McHenry

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing…

— George W Truett

It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is…

— Henry David Thoreau