My friends there is no book like the Bible. From any and every angle we approach or view the Bible it stands alone as the most inspiring, life transformational, and intellectually compelling book ever written.
Below are a collection of many of my favorite quotes on the Bible from a host of some of the most influential people in history (except for the last one). I have intentionally not given a source note on these quotes. Instead I leave it up to you, the reader, to check the source of these quotes in an effort to get you to read up on these individuals and why they held the Scriptures in such high esteem. I pray these quotes get you to read the Bible more and cherish it as the greatest book known to man and the greatest love letter ever given to us by our heavenly Father. There is just no book like the Bible!
“I decided a long time ago that it was less difficult to believe that the Bible was what it claimed to be than to disbelieve it.” – Abraham Lincoln
“A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district – all studied and appreciated as they have merit – are the principal support of virtue, morality and civil liberty.” – Benjamin Franklin
“We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatsoever.” – Isaac Newton
“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“The Bible is one mighty representative of the whole spiritual life of humanity.” – Helen Keller
“The first and almost the only book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.” – John Quincy Adams
“…The Bible…is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the Only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.” – Woodrow Wilson
“The nearer I approach to the end of my pilgrimage, the clearer is the evidence of the divine origin of the Bible, the grandeur and sublimity of God’s remedy for fallen man are more appreciated, and the future is illumined with hope and joy.” – Samuel Morse
“If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.” – Daniel Webster
“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.” – John Quincy Adams
“A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put. No other book has been so chopped, knifed, sifted, scrutinized, and vilified. What book on philosophy or religion or psychology … of classical or modern times has been subject to such a mass attack as the Bible? With such venom and skepticism? With such thoroughness and erudition? Upon every chapter, line and tenet? The Bible is still loved by millions, read by millions, and studied by millions.” – Bernard Ramm
“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 the sheet-anchor of our liberties.” – Ulysses S. Grant
“It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.” – Horace Greeley
“I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well-educated man.” – Dr. Robert Millikan
“The Bible is a window in this prison world through which we may look into eternity.” – Timothy Dwight
“The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.” – Charles Dickens
“The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed.” – Patrick Henry
“The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty…students’ perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.” – Thomas Jefferson
“We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and ever changing science…but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.” – John A. Fleming
“I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.” – Woodrow Wilson
“Education is useless without the Bible.” – Daniel Webster
“It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men’s lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals, etc.…. He who seeks for guidance … may look inside its covers and find illumination.” – Herbert Hoover
“A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.” – Immanuel Kant
“The BIBLE — banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it, dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it. Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it more powerful than their weapons. Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints.” – Charles Colson
“The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the BIBLE that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.” – Calvin Coolidge
“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
“The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of the BIBLE. The more deeply he works the mine, the richer and more abundant he finds the ore.” – Sir Walter Scott
“Pile them, if you will, on the left side of your study table; but place your own Holy Bible on the right side – all by itself, all alone and with a wide gap between them. For,…there is a gulf between it and the so-called sacred books of the East which severs the one from the other utterly, hopelessly, and forever…” – Monier Williams
“Infidels for eighteen hundred years have been refuting and overthrowing this book, and yet it stands today as solid as a rock. Its circulation increases, and it is more loved and cherished and read today than ever before. Infidels, with all their assaults, make about as much impression on this book as a man with a tack hammer would on the Pyramids of Egypt.” “When the French monarch proposed the persecution of the Christians in his dominion, an old statesman and warrior said to him, ‘Sire, the Church of GOD is an anvil that has worn out many hammers.’ So, the hammers of infidels have been pecking away at this book for ages, but the hammers are worn out, and the anvil still endures. If this book had not been the book of GOD, men would have destroyed it long ago. Emperors and popes, kings and priests, princes and rulers have all tried their hand at it; they die and the book still lives.” – H. L. Hastings
“Bible fever – Catch it.” – Curt Blattman