"A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London."

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

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

"Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters."

"Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible."

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

"As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'"

"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible."

"Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it."

"The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools."

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

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"It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means."

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"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

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

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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."