Whatever can be proved to be good, must be so by being shown to be a means to something admitted to be good without proof.
You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove.
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.
It has been said that every great emerging scientific truth goes to three phases: First people say: "It can't be true". Second they say: "It conflicts with the bible." Third they say: "It's true all along."
A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
It has been said that Homer was the Bible of the Greeks. The remark exactly misses the truth. The Greeks fortunately had no Bible, and this fact was both an expression and an important condition of their freedom. Homer's poems were secular, not religious, and it may be noted that they are freer from immorality and savagery than sacred books that one could mention.
For hundreds of years the Bible was the standard, and whenever anything was asserted in any science contrary to-the Bible, the church immediately denounced the scientist. I admit the standard has been changed, and ministers are very busy, not trying to show that science does not agree with the Bible, but that the Bible agrees with science.
Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,—
A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.