"If we don't know what the Bible says then we don't know God's will or His character very well, and then it becomes easy for us to be led astray by false doctrines that make sense to our minds. The apostle John said that the Word was with God and the Word was God, and then the Word became flesh and dwelt with us (John 1:1, 14). God and His Word cannot be separated, so if you do not know the Word of God very well then you do not really know God very well. ... In fact, some Bible teachers point out that you do not love God more than you love the Word of God, so if you treat the Word of God with disrespect by not reading it and not feeding your spirit with it then you are treating God with disrespect."
--David Emerson Root, Jr

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"At this time I both read and studied all kinds of literature: cosmography, histories, chronicles, and philosophy and other arts , to which our Lord opened my mind unmistakably to the fact that it was possible to navigate from here to the Indies, and He evoked in me the will for the execution of it; and with this fire I came to Your Highnesses. All those who heard of my plan disregarded it mockingly and with laughter. All the sciences of which I spoke were of no profit to me nor the authorities in them; only in Your Highnesses my faith, and my stay. Who would doubt that this light did not come from the Holy Spirit, anyway as far as I am concerned, which comforted with rays of marvelous clarity and with its Holy and Sacred Scriptures."
--Christopher Columbus

"A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know the price of rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved."
--Benjamin Franklin

"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."
--George Washington

"The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty...students' perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands."
--Thomas Jefferson

"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people...so great is my veneration of the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read, the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens in their country and respectful members of society."
--John Adams

"The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed."
--Patrick Henry

"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man."
--Abraham Lincoln

"My advice to Sunday Schools no matter what their denomination is: Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your heart, and practice them in your lives. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. 'Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people (Proverbs 14:34)'."
--Ulysses S. Grant

"That Book (the Bible) is the rock on which our Republic rests."
--Andrew Jackson

"It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom."
--Horace Greeley, founding Editor of the NY Times

"The existence of the Bible is a book for the people. It's the greatest benefit the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity."
--Immanuel Kant

"The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and the oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it."
--Thomas Huxley

"The Bible is no mere book, but it's a living creature with a power that conquers all who oppose it."
--Napoleon

"There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history." .... "I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily."
--Sir Isaac Newton

"Bible reading is an education in itself."
--Lord Tennyson

"The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world."
--Charles Dickens

"The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever growing influence of the Bible."
--W.H. Seward

"The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures."
--A.W. Tozer

"It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book that was as simple to me as the multiplication table, and say, 'This is the Word of God. In it He has revealed His whole will and wisdom,' I would shake my head and say, 'I cannot believe it; that is too easy to be a perfect revelation of infinite wisdom.' There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners."
--R.A. Torrey

"The Bible is...as necessary to spiritual life as breath is to natural life. There is nothing more essential to our lives than the Word of God."
--Jack Hayford

"He who begins by loving Christianity, better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), Aids to Reflection [1825]

"In necessariis unitas, In dubiis libertas, In omnibus autem caritas."
Translation:  In necessary things (essentials), unity; in doubtful things (non-essentials), liberty; in all things, charity (love).
-- 17th century Lutheran theologian Peter Meiderlin (often misattributed to St. Augustine of Hippo)

"Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods."
-- C.S. Lewis

"To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance to your thinking."
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

 --Jesus as quoted in John 14:6

"Truth without love is like sodium without chloride: Poison, not salt."
-- Marvin Olasky

"Logic is a good mistress but a very bad master."
-- John G. Reisinger

Wise Sayings on Government (humor)

"From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step."
-- Friedrich Hayek in The Road to Serfdom (p. 62)

"In social evolution nothing is inevitable but thinking makes it so."
-- Friedrich Hayek in The Road to Serfdom (p. 54)

"There never was a good war or a bad peace."
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1783

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried."
 -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
 -- James Madison

"A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired."
--Alexander Hamilton

"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac ."
--Henry Kissinger

"If we will not be governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants."
--William Penn

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
 -- Thomas Jefferson 1802 (unverified)

"By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate secretly and unobserved an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is  no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of  economic law on the side of destruction - and does it in a manner in which  not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
  -- John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace