All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.
God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called "The Word. " The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God's continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind.
Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control. His sovereignty is absolute. Everything that happens is uniquely ordained by God. Sovereignty is a weighty thing to ascribe to the nature and character of God. Yet if He were not sovereign, He would not be God. The Bible is clear that God is in control of everything that happens.
The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.
There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.
The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose. I value them not, and scorn their unfounded judgment.
The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.
I find nothing in the Bible but holiness, and nothing in the world but worldliness. Therefore, if I live in the world, I will become worldly; on the other hand, if I live in the Bible, I will become holy.
I'm sick of people who've never been to church telling me that church is full of hypocrites, and people who've never read the Bible telling me that it's baloney.
The only place we can find a clear, unmistakable message is in the Word of God, which we call the Bible.
I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.
We pray everyday. We read the bible everyday, so everybody's happy.
We do not have to make the Bible relevant - it already is! But we do have to show its relevance.
The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.
The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.
What joy that the Bible tells us the great comfort that the best is yet to be. Our outlook goes beyond this world.
The Bible does not provide a map for life - only a compass.
The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.