Tributes to the Bible by Brainy Men
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THOMAS CARLYLE. “Jesus is our divinest symbol. Higher has the human thought not yet reached. A symbol of quite perennial, infinite character: whose significance will ever demand to be anew in quired into and anew made manifest.” JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE. “The most perfect being who has ever trod the soil of this planet was called the Man of Sorrows.” CHARLES DICKENS IN HIS WILL. “I commit my soul to the mercy of God, through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide themselves by the teachings of the New Testa ment.” SHAKESPEARE IN HIS WILL. “I commend my soul into the hands of God, my Creator, hoping and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life ever lasting.” LORD BYRON. “If ever man was God, or God man, Jesus Christ was both.” MATTHEW ARNOLD. “To the Bible men will return because they cannot do with out it. The true God is and must be pre-eminently the God of the Bible, the eternal who makes for righteousness, from whom Jesus came forth, and whose spirit governs the course of hu manity.” DIDEROT. “No better lessons can I teach my child than those of the Bible.”
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