The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view ... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for.

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between.

Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.

The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct.

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do.

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.

I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.

Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.

Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.

The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?