"We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded."

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"We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded."

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"The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

Bible, World

"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Bible, Right

"Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make."

Jim George, American Author

Bible, Decision, Commitment, Faith

"I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic."

Amy Tan, American Novelist

Bible, Respect

"The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct."

William B. Riley, American Evangelist

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"The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible."

Anita Diament, American Author

Bible,

"You know the Holy Spirit lives in you when you can defend the Holy Bible without fear or intimidation. John 14:1."

Felix Wantang, Cameroonian Author

Bible, Courage, Defense, Faith

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

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Bible, End

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Bible, Man

"If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass."

Evel Knievel, American Entertainer

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"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us."

Evil

"Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell."

Feelings

"A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults."

Trust

"The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again."

Rain

"There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought."

Man

"Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth."

Age

"Do noble things, not dream them all day long."

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"The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum."

"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."

"Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make."

"I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic."

"The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct."

"The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible."

"You know the Holy Spirit lives in you when you can defend the Holy Bible without fear or intimidation. John 14:1."

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

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."

"If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass."

Explore more quotes by Charles Kingsley

"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us."

"Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell."

"A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults."

"Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever."

"Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book."

"There is a great deal of human nature in man."

"The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again."

"There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought."

"Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth."

"Do noble things, not dream them all day long."