The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are of themselves evidences that the human language, whether in speech or […]
Bible Quotes
The Bible does not provide a map for life – only a compass.
The thing is, that the Bible, whether you consider it as a collection of fables, transmuted through the golden mists of an elder time, or as a system of ethics, or as a profession of faith, is the most convincing and comprehensive record of human experience and aspiration that exists in the world.
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe.
I doubt if there is in the world a single problem, whether social, political, or economic, which would not find ready solution if men and nations would rule their lives according to the plain teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
If there is a God, I want to thank Him for the Gideons, whoever they are. I have dealt with some of His other messengers and found them utterly useless. But not the Gideons. They have saved me many times, when nobody else could do anything but mutter about calling Security on me unless I […]
The New Testament, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essences of fairy stories. This is different from all the others because it has “entered history.” Unlike the other stories there is no tale ever told that men would rather find true, to reject it leads either to sadness […]
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
