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"Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was."
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"You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible."
"You know the Holy Spirit lives in you when you can defend the Holy Bible without fear or intimidation. John 14:1."
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."
"The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares."
"Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible."
"If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible."
"The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed."
"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."
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"The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature."
"But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved."
"At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language."
"The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person."
"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."
"In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development."
"But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose."
"Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it."
"The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can."
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