Historical Figures
Throughout history, men and women have deemed the Bible as an influential and significant book.

The Bible has had a monumental impact upon the development of our Western civilization, whose literature, art, and music are filled with images and inspiration that can be traced to its pages. More importantly, our laws, our sense of justice, our charity, and our moral standards all find their origin in the Bible. Bible reading impresses upon the minds of readers the principles of morality, truth, justice, and respect for the sacredness of human life. -- The Honorable Zach Wamp, U.S. Representative, State of Tennessee? More...

The greatest source of material for motion pictures is the Bible, and almost any chapter would serve as a basic idea for a great movie. -- Cecil B. DeMille

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world. --Charles Dickens

England has two books, one which she has made, and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible. -- Victor Hugo

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

I read the Bible to understand what is happening today. -- Eli Wiesel

I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men. -- George Whitefield (Helped found over 50 colleges in the U.S.)

The Bible is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed. -- Patrick Henry

It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom. -- Horace Greely

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good, and the best corrector of all that is evil, in human society; the best Book for regulating temporal concerns of men, and the only Book that can serve as an infallible guide to future felicity. -- Noah Webster

The Bible fits man for life and prepares him for death. -- Daniel Webster

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. -- Noah Webster

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. --Sir Isaac Newton

The secret of my success? It is simple.  It is found in the Bible. -- George Washington Carver

The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and the oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it. -- Thomas Huxley

The Bible is no mere book, but it's a living creature with a power that conquers all who oppose it. -- Napoleon

My favorite thing is to read my Bible every day; it's a great education. -- Bobby McFerrin (Musician)

From the time that, at my mother's feet or on my father's knee, I first learned to list verses from the sacred writings, they have been my daily study and vigilant contemplation. -- Daniel Webster

That Book accounts for the supremacy of England. -- Queen Victoria

The existence of the Bible, as a Book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity. -- Immanuel Kant (Philosopher)

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths contained in the Sacred Scriptures. -- Sir William Herschel (Astronomer)

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. -- Sir Isaac Newton (Scientist)

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires; beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go. - Goethe (Author)

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eight-seven were followers of the Bible. The Bible is stamped with a Specialty of Origin, and an immeasurable distance separates it from all competitors. - W.E. Gladstone (Prime Minister)

Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart. - John Ruskin (art critic and social commentator)

The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it. - Thomas Huxley (Author & Scientist)

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever growing influence of the Bible. - W.H. Seward (Secretary of State)