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We have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen! all for the glory of God and the good of souls! The slave auctioneer's bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master. Revivals of religion and revivals in the slave-trade go hand in hand.
frederick douglass— Appendix
Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.
George Herbert— Sin, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ.
robert murray m'cheyne— P. 39. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs?
christopher morley— "Contribution to a Contribution" as quoted in The Twin Bedside Anthology (1946) by Charles Lee, p. 183
"Later he tried to keep a straight face as he mockingly confessed: 'While we were away, I found God.' He rambled on about the Bible before concluding, 'We found God. He was right in our stomachs...'" (The rambling had to do with finding a Bible in every hotel room, "Every hotel has Holy Bibles.")
eddie vedder— July 23, 1998 Seattle Post-Intelligencer, page C3
"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah , later still.
— Robert Anton Wilson, in Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups (1998), Genesis, p. 197
" Elohim ," the name for the creative power in Genesis , is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as " God ," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH , mispronounced Jehovah , later still.
— Robert Anton Wilson, in Everything Is Under Control (1998) "Genesis", p. 197
"Oh," but they say to me, "you take away immortality." I do not. If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to Bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.
— "What Must We Do To Be Saved?" (1880) Section XI, "What Do You Propose?"
Then twangling their Bibles with wrath in their nostrilsFrom Bonehill Fields came Bunyan and Blake:"Laredo the golden is fallen, is fallen;Your flame shall not quench nor your thirst shall not slake."
louis macneice— "The Streets of Laredo", line 21
Some people like to read their Bibles in the Hebrew; some like to read it in the Greek; I like to read it in the Holy Spirit
smith wigglesworth— Page 79 (The Complete Story: A New Biography on the Apostle of Faith By Julian Wilson)
" Elohim ," the name for the creative power in Genesis , is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as " God ," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean " goddesses ." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH , mispronounced Jehovah , later still.
robert anton wilson— Genesis, p. 197
