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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.

The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

Where in the Bible does it say I have to drive a Honda?

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.

They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.