We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable’s handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are being overloaded. Charles Kingsley
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course. A A Milne
The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. G K Chesterton
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book. Abraham Lincoln
The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed. Patrick Henry
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. George Bernard Shaw
The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed. Thomas Paine
For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant. Martin Luther.
Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook. Ludwig von Mises
The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world. H L Mencken
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. Bishop Desmond Tutu
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. Robert Ingersoll
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Samuel Butler