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

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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."

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"In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions."

James McHenry, American Politician

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"We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David."

William Brewster, American Pilgrim Leader

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"You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible."

Tim LaHaye, American Clergyman

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"The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

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"But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation."

Reggie White, American Athlete

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"The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

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"We need to pray and read the Bible every day, and regardless of whatever else happens to you, that tends to keep you close to Him, because you are constantly in touch through His Word."

Cliff Richard, English Musician

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"I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible."

Tony Campolo, American Clergyman

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"The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted."

Brendan Behan, Irish Dramatist

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

Van Wyck Brooks, American Critic

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"I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love."

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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."

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"The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches."

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"I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets."

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