Gems of Thought — On The Bible

This collection of books has taken such a hold on the world as no other. The literature of Greece, which goes up like incense from that land of temples and heroic deeds, has not half the influence of this book from a nation alike despised in ancient and modern times ... The sun never sets on its gleaming page ... It is woven into the literature of the scholar, and colors the talk of the street ... It lifts man above himself; our best of unuttered prayers are in its storied speech. Men rest on this their dearest hopes. It tells them of God, and of his blessed Son; of earthly duties and of heavenly rest. — Theodore Parker.