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.
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There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.
The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious.'
If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.