An Awesome Book

I hold in my hand the most wonderful book . . . the Bible. It has been outlawed in some lands, ignored by a majority of mankind, burned, attacked, cut up, criticized and doubted. Satan and his minions have been trying to get rid of it for thousands of years. Yet it has survived every onslaught of demons and wicked men. And it is the best-selling book in the world. God has given it and preserved it for you and me. Its goal is to help us know God, trust Him and have our sins forgiven. Its ultimate purpose is that we might get to heaven.

Thomas Carlisle: A noble book, all men*s book. It is our first oldest statement of the never-ending problem, man*s destiny, and God*s ways with him here on earth, and all in such free-flowing outlines, grand in its sincerity, in its simplicity, in its epic melody and repose of reconcilement.

Woodrow Wilson: I would be afraid to go forward if I did not believe that there lies at the foundation of all our schooling and all our thought the incomparable and unimpeachable word of God.

Judge Hale: There is no book like the Bible for excellent learning, wisdom and use. It is want of understanding in them who speak or think otherwise.

Thomas Jefferson: I have always said, and always will say that the studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.

Dr. Samuel Johnson on his deathbed: Attend to the advice of one who has possessed a certain degree of fame in the world, and also will shortly appear before his maker . . . read the Bible every day!

Daniel Webster: I have read it through many times. I now make a practice of going through it once a year. It is the book of all others for lawyers as well as divines. And I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and rules for conduct.

John Adams: I have examined all of the Bible as well as my narrow sphere, my straightened brains and my busy life would allow me. And the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world. It contains more of my little philosophy, than all the libraries I*ve seen, and such parts of it I can*t reconcile to my little philosophy I postpone for future investigation.

John Quincy Adams: I speak as a man of the world to men of the world, and I say to you . . . search the scriptures. The Bible is the book of all others to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life. Not to be read once or twice or thrice and be laid aside, but to be read in small portions of 1 or 2 chapters every day. And never to be intermitted unless by some over-ruling necessity.

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