Some of my favorite quotes on prayer

If a man is not familiar with the Bible, he has suffered the loss which he had better make all possible haste to correct.

No book can rightfully be compared to the Bible. No book has changed so many lives, so many cultures, so many nations. No book has inspired such great and noble deeds ….

Even agnostics and atheist admit to the influence of the Bible upon mankind. Goethe, the famous German poet and antagonist of Christianity said:

"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in ever greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires; beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the gospels, it will not go.

The human mind, no matter how far it may advance in every other department, will never transcend the height and moral culture of Christianity as it is shown in the Gospels."

And let us be sure of this, we will not long preserve the gospel without the languages. The languages are the sheath in which this sword of the Spirit is contained; they are the casket in which this jewel is enshrined; they are the vessel in which this wine is held; they are the larder in which this food is stored; and, as the gospel itself points out, they are the baskets in which are kept these loaves and fishes and fragments. If through our neglect we let the languages go (which God forbid) we shall ... lose the gospel."

Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920), the Dutch Prime Minister, theologian, and founder of the Free University, understood that "……. whole cultures were transformed during the Reformation as people were given access to God’s worldview via the Bible.”

"The Bible is a missionary that never gets sick, needs no pay, never takes a furlough. It is always there, ready to do the work it was intended for."

“Books may preach when the author cannot, when the author may not, when the author dares not, yea, and which is more, when the author is not.”

James Madison was the chief architect of the Constitution. After he graduated from college in NJ (a Presbyterian-oriented education under the leadership of Reverend John Witherspoon) Madison spent one more year at the College of New Jersey where he translated the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into English. Madison’s views on government were thoroughly shaped by Witherspoon and other Presbyterians. Thus, Madison’s political world view was one shaped by the Bible more than any other source.

“We had heard the story of Jesus before and we used to think that we understood it,” says Paul, an Aramaic church leader. In a region of the world that is resistant to the gospel, their churches have celebrated the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus since approximately 400 AD. “But when I heard the Bible and read it in my mother tongue, it made my heart beat faster,” says Paul. “I was overwhelmed by the tenderness and love of the words I heard.”

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If a man is not familiar with the Bible, he has suffered the loss which he had better make all possible haste to correct. Theodore Roosevelt. ----------- No book can rightfully be compared to the Bible. No book has changed so many lives, so many cultures, so many nations. No book has inspired such great and noble deeds …. Dr. D. James Kennedy in What if the Bible had never been written? ----------- Even agnostics and atheist admit to the influence of the Bible upon mankind. Goethe, the famous German poet and antagonist of Christianity said: "Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in ever greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires; beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the gospels, it will not go. The human mind, no matter how far it may advance in every other department, will never transcend the height and moral culture of Christianity as it is shown in the Gospels." And let us be sure of this, we will not long preserve the gospel without the languages. The languages are the sheath in which this sword of the Spirit is contained; they are the casket in which this jewel is enshrined; they are the vessel in which this wine is held; they are the larder in which this food is stored; and, as the gospel itself points out, they are the baskets in which are kept these loaves and fishes and fragments. If through our neglect we let the languages go (which God forbid) we shall ... lose the gospel." Martin Luther ----------- Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920), the Dutch Prime Minister, theologian, and founder of the Free University, understood that "……. whole cultures were transformed during the Reformation as people were given access to God’s worldview via the Bible.” ----------- "The Bible is a missionary that never gets sick, needs no pay, never takes a furlough. It is always there, ready to do the work it was intended for." Adoniram Judson ----------- “This book is for the brave!” Nevers Mumba Former Vice President of Zambia May 16, 05 ----------- “Books may preach when the author cannot, when the author may not, when the author dares not, yea, and which is more, when the author is not.” The Puritan Thomas Brooks ----------- James Madison was the chief architect of the Constitution. After he graduated from college in NJ (a Presbyterian-oriented education under the leadership of Reverend John Witherspoon) Madison spent one more year at the College of New Jersey where he translated the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into English. Madison’s views on government were thoroughly shaped by Witherspoon and other Presbyterians. Thus, Madison’s political world view was one shaped by the Bible more than any other source. ----------- “We had heard the story of Jesus before and we used to think that we understood it,” says Paul, an Aramaic church leader. In a region of the world that is resistant to the gospel, their churches have celebrated the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus since approximately 400 AD. “But when I heard the Bible and read it in my mother tongue, it made my heart beat faster,” says Paul. “I was overwhelmed by the tenderness and love of the words I heard.” Paul, an Aramaic man recently reading a new translation into Aramaic	More on what the Bible says about itself: -------------- And we have the prophetic word made more sure. You will do well to pay attention to this as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. 2 Peter 1:19-21 -------------- In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets Hebrews 1:1 -------------- "Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you ..." Jeremiah 36:2 -------------- For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Matthew 5:18 -------------- "...the word of the Lord abides for ever." That word is the good news which was preached to you. 1 Peter 1:25 -------------- For ever, O LORD, thy word is firmly fixed in the heavens. Psalm 119:89 -------------- The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand for ever. Isaiah 40:8 --------------
	“The only way the world is going to stop short of the brink of nuclear holocaust is a return to God and the principles of the Bible. The greatest question facing civilization today is, “Is the Bible a revelation of the God who created the universe showing us the way out of our dilemma or is the Bible only an archaic book of folk stories written by men. George Wald, Professor of Biology at Harvard before scholars gathered at the Southern Colorado State College ----------- Henry Van Dyke: "Born in the East and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the world with familiar feet and enters land after land to find its own everywhere. It has learned to speak in hundreds of languages to the heart of man. Children listen to its stories with wonder and delight, and wise men ponder them as parables of life. The wicked and the proud tremble at its warnings, but to the wounded and penitent it has a mother's voice. It has woven itself into our dearest dreams; so that Love, Friendship, Sympathy, Devotion, Memory, Hope , put on the beautiful garments of its treasured speech. No man is poor or desolate who has this treasure for his own. When the landscape darkens, and the trembling pilgrim comes to the Valley of the Shadow, he is not afraid to enter; he takes the rod and staff of Scripture in his hand; he says to friend and comrade, 'Goodbye; We Shall Meet Again'; and, confronted by that support, he goes toward the lonely pass as one who walks through darkness into light." (From Companionable Books, by Henry Van Dyke , through courtesy of its publishers, Charles Scribner's Sons.) ----------- “The Scriptures have changed the whole world”. Kenyan Pastor “Cyprian Utienda” at the Strategic Response Model training in July 03 -----------

NOTABLE SAYINGS ABOUT THE BIBLE from From Halley’s Bible Handbook "I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible. The Bible is stamped with a Specialty of Origin, and an immeasurable distance separates it from all competitors." W.E.Gladstone ----------- "The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and oppressed. The human race is nor in a position to dispense with it." Thomas Huxley ----------- "The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed." Patrick Henry ----------- "That book, sir, is the rock on which our republic rests." Andrew Jackson ----------- "In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength." Robert E. Lee ----------- Daniel Webster one of the greatest lawyers of his age declared that: "I believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the will and word of God, and I believe Jesus Christ to be the son of God. and "If there is anything in my thoughts or style to commend, the credit is due to my parents for instilling in me an early love of the Scriptures. If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering an to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity." "So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year." John Quincy Adams ----------- "The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world." Charles Dickens ----------- "The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home." Thomas Carlyle ----------- "Bible reading is an education in itself." Lord Tennyson "Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart." John Ruskin ----------- "The grand old Book still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the pages of the Sacred Word. "Charles A.Dana ----------- "All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths contained in the Sacred Scriptures. Sir William Herschel ----------- "There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history." Sir Isaac Newton
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