It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Those who talk of the Bible as a "monument of English prose" are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity

The English Bible-a book which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author-and not to learn it better.

The Scripture in time of disputes is like an open town in time of war, which serves indifferently the occasions of both parties.

We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas, if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.

In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments.