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“The grand old book will laugh them all to scorn, and will float, like Noah’s Ark, under Almighty care, on the waves of a deluge, that may overflow a reckless and unthinking world.” -- Lord Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper (1801-1885), in “The Revision of the Bible,” 1870
“This volume is like a beautiful old picture which has come down to us in a state of extraordinary perfection.” -- Clement Clarke Moore, speaking of the Bible
“We don’t like to speak ill of the living, so we let others do it.” -- Read
“Sooner or later a person who wears two faces forgets which one is real.” -- Unknown, possibly based on Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter: “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
“Trying to impress those you are teaching with how smart you are is to show them how smart you are not.” -- Heard
“Time is the deposit each one has in the bank of God, and no one knows the balance.” -- Ralph Washington Sockman (to which some have added “until the note falls due.”)
“Boys throw stones at frogs in sport, but frogs don’t die in sport. They die in earnest.” -- Bion of Borysthenes
“The faintest ink is more lasting than the strongest memory.” -- Chinese proverb
“The family altar is rarer than any Egyptian mummy, while millions eat their daily bread with no gratitude to God for it.” -- Benjamin G. Wilkinson
“Vanquished by the Word Incarnate, Satan next directed his subtle malice against the Word written.” -- John W. Burgon
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