Quotes about Book
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book;… in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But be warned! The book is an inconceivably impressive sharpening of the commandment 'Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain'.
— Karl Barth
For it is a dangerous book, a book filled with the apocalyptic air of judgement.
— Karl Barth
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
— George Eliot
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.
— John Donne
Now may this little Book a blessing be To those that love this little Book, and me: And may its Buyer have no cause to say, His money is but lost, or thrown away.
— John Bunyan
Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book.
— Ellen White
The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.
— Charles Spurgeon
There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!
— Vance Havner
I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.
— John Adams
I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I've come to the bottom of the Word of God.
— Adrian Rogers