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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

Henry Ward Beecher
Bible, Ocean, Biblical
"Life Thoughts".

There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.

Henry Ward Beecher
Bible, Believe, Men

Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

Henry Ward Beecher
Bible, Biblical, Spiders
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.8

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

Henry Ward Beecher
Bible, Religious, Religion

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

Henry Ward Beecher
Bible, Character, Literature
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

Henry Ward Beecher
Bible, Men, Noble
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John; it is the Gospel according to William; it is the Gospel according to Mary; it is the Gospel according to Henry and James; it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.

Henry Ward Beecher
Bible, Writing, Names
Henry Ward Beecher (1869). “Royal Truths”, p.201

Many will say, "I can find God without the help of the Bible, or church, or minister." Very well. Do so if you can. The Ferry Company would feel no jealousy of a man who should prefer to swim to New York. Let him do so if he is able, and we will talk about it on the other shore; but probably trying to swim would be the thing that would bring him quickest to the boat. So God would have no jealousy of a man's going to heaven without the aid of the Bible, or church, or minister; but let him try to do so, and it will be the surest way to bring him back to them for assistance.

Henry Ward Beecher
Bible, New York, Men
"Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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