"I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame."
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"All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff."
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"My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from it. I think faith and guidance can help fortify a young woman's sense of self, a young man's sense of responsibility, and a sense of reverence all young people for the act of sexual intimacy."
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"I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen."
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"Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)"
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"See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half done, between the rock and plain."
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"The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the] Author: the Spirit of God."
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"Of course the New Testament is very small. Its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster, yet somehow man-made."
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"It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it."
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"A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this."
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"I've tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. I'd rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them asexcellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But I'm sure I have contributed to false values--as Stanley Woodward said, "Godding up those ballplayers." The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."
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"The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth."
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"The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved."
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"A noble book! all men's book!"
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"I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen."
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"The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes."
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"I think every citizen in Burlington has a right to voice their opinion and participate in the local political process no matter who they are or what they are or where they come from or what their religious beliefs are. But for me to base all of my decisions based on my reading of the Holy Bible just isn't going to happen."
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"I've gotten letters, but mostly from Bible-belt types who say, you must be Satan! They come right out and call me Satan and hope that I'm damned to hell."
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"Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground."
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"Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention."
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