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Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. - Bible, II Samuel (ch. XXIII, v. 1-2) Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. - Bible, Psalms (ch. CXIX, v. 105) I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. - Bible, Psalms (ch. CXIX, v. 99) His studie was but litel on the Bible. - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 4) A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none. - William Cowper, Olney Hymns (no. 30) One day at least in every week, The sects of every kind Their doctrines here are sure to seek, And just as sure to find. - Augustus de Morgan, in preface to "From Matter to Spirit" And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require. - John Dryden, Religio Laici (l. 297) Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Problem The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Problem It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare." - Matthew (Mathew) Henry, Commentaries Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown. - Matthew (Mathew) Henry, Of Solomon's Song Bibles laid open, millions of surprises. - George Herbert, The Church--Sin Starres are poore books, and oftentimes do misse; This book of starres lights to eternal blisse. - George Herbert, The Church--The Holy Scriptures (pt. II) So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally. - James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers (second series, no. 7, st. 17) The history of every individual man should be a Bible. - Novalis (pseudonym of Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg), Christianity or Europe, (Carlyle's translation) Most wondrous book! bright candle of the Lord! Star of Eternity! The only star By which the bark of man could navigate The sea of life, and gain the coast of bliss Securely. - Robert Pollok, Course of Time (bk. II, l. 270) Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, and force the way: And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. - Sir Walter Scott, The Monastery (vol. 1, ch. XII) But Thy good word informs my soul How I may climb to heaven. - Isaac Watts, Excellency of the Bible How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen. - Isaac Watts, Praise for the Gospel The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God. - Daniel Webster, Completion of Bunker Hill Monument We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker of the best, We come back laden from out quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read. - John Greenleaf Whittier, Miriam
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