Augustine Quote by R. Alan Woods

“The word “canon” is derived from a Hebrew word signifying “reed” (qaneh) and by extension “measuring stick.” It enters into the Greek language as…

— J. Daniel Hays

“A canon is a guarded catalogue of that speech, music and art which houses inside us, which is irrevocably familiar to our homecomings. And…

— George Steiner

“Cumulatively, the sheer volume of papyrus and parchment under-girding sacred Scripture dwarf that of any other work in classical history. Consider, for example, Homer’s…

— Hank Hanegraaff

The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“No single theologian writing in Greek or Syriac in the patristic period exercised an influence in the Christian East comparable to that exercised in…

— David Bentley Hart

“The question of “canon and creed,” which underlies quite a bit of this book, has become quite urgent and controversial and needs to be…

— N.T. Wright

“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

“[A historian] will more seriously deplore the loss of the Byzantine libraries, which were destroyed or scattered in the general confusion: one hundred and…

— Edward Gibbon

“For me, books were not the containers of words so much as the words themselves, and the value of a given book was determined…

— Paul Auster

“His copy was full of lofty echoes: Greek Tragedy; Damocle's sword; manna from heaven; the myth of Sisyphus; the last of the Mohicans; hydra-headed…

— Tarun J. Tejpal

“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

“He [Augustine] admitted: 'I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress by writing.' ”

— Paul Johnson