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quotes by topic Bible

" God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

God , Man , Bible

" Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away "

Enthusiasm , Inspiration , Bible , Europe

" Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was, "

Bible

" For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete "

Education , Knowledge , Literature , Reason , English , Bible , Literary

" Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. "

Ulysses S. Grant

Future , Civilization , Influence , Progress , Bible

" If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. "

Wallace Stevens

Poetry , Bible

" The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. "

Wallace Stevens

Poetry , Bible

" Visit many good books, but live in the Bible. "

Charles Spurgeon

Bible , Book , Good

" The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand. In the first, God sought Adam. In the second, Jesus sought God. In Eden, Adam hid from God. In Gethsemane, Jesus emerged from the tomb. In Eden, Satan led Adam to a tree that led to his death. From Gethsemane, Jesus went to a tree that led to our life. "

Bible , Fall , Jesus

" Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy. "

Passion , Bible , Real

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