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The Best Book

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In regard to this great book, the Bible, I have but to say it is the best gift God has given. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man’s welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in it.
— Abraham Lincoln

Whatever I have done in my life has simply been due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read with me a part of the Bible, and made me learn a part of it by heart.
— Wendell Phillips

I rejoice in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches. I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways. I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word.
— Psalm 119:14-16

England has two books: the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare but the Bible made England.
— Victor Hugo

You don’t have to be a particularly religious person nor a person of any specific faith to see the wisdom in the book of Proverbs in the Bible. Like the facets of our life, golf is something we can improve at by being at peace with ourselves. Proverbs can help us find that peace.
— Gary Player

Prayer

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We must not conceive of prayer as an overcoming of God’s reluctance, but as a laying hold of His highest willingness.
— Richard Trench

When we ask for God’s help only in the major decisions, we are admitting Him into a very small part of our lives.
— Catherine Marshall

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
— Corrie ten Boom

A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
— Leonard Ravenhill

The example that my father set in the home mirrored his own spiritual values. We never started the day without Bible reading and a short time of prayer. We never ended the day without Bible reading and a time of prayer. We always prayed on our knees as a family.
— Franklin Graham

The Best Book

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Men turn this way and that in their search for new sources of comfort and inspiration, but the enduring truths are to be found in the Word of God.
— Elizabeth, the Queen Mother

Other books were given for our information, the Bible was given for our transformation.
— The Defender

The Bible, sir, is the rock on which our republic rests.
— Andrew Jackson

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me, it has hands, it lays hold on me.
— Martin Luther

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

The Best Book

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The Bible is not merely a book – it is a living power – a book surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with the same pleasure.
— Napoléon Bonaparte

I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book upon reason that you can and the balance upon faith, and you will live and die a better man.
— Abraham Lincoln

No one ever graduates from Bible study until he meets the Author face to face.
— Everett Harris

How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
— Psalm 119:103

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

The Power of Prayer

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Prayer guards hearts and minds and causes God to bring peace out of chaos.
— Beth Moore

Bring prayer to your family, bring it to your little children. Teach them to pray. For a child that prays is a happy child.
— Mother Teresa

I try to spend time each day in prayer or meditation. I also spend time in the Scriptures each day. My time in this fashion has been a real source of strength to me.
— Tom Osborne

The devil considers any real prayer dangerous.
— Catherine Marshall

So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
— Luke 11:9-10

The Best Book

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The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God’s word.
— Lady Jane Grey

A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the other books I ever read.
— Immanuel Kant

The Bible is not a guidebook to a theological museum. It is a road map showing us the way into neglected or even forgotten glories of the living God.
— Ray Ortlund

I thoroughly believe in a university education for both men and women; but I believe a knowledge of the Bible is more valuable than a college course without the Bible.
— Will Johnson

The Importance of Prayer

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Prayer is the gymnasium of the soul.
— Samuel Zwemer

Prayer, meditation, scripture study, and worship are just as essential to running a successful spiritual race as physical discipline is in preparing for athletic competition.
— Tom Osborne

Pray twice as much as you fret.
— Max Lucado

I have so much business I cannot go on without spending three hours daily in prayer.
— Martin Luther

Time spent in prayer will yield more than that given to work. Prayer alone gives work its worth and its success. Prayer opens the way for God Himself to do His work in us and through us. Let our chief work as God’s messengers be intercession; in it we secure the presence and power of God to go with us.
— Andrew Murray