It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ''It is talking to me, and about me.''

Those who spiritualize tell spiritual lies, because they lack spiritual eyes.

The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.

For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical.