"I believe that the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through the book." - Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president.
"My doubts scattered to the winds and my reason became convinced by the arguments of the Old and New Testaments." - Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president.
"I sought for the greatness of the United States in her commodious harbors, her ample rivers, her fertile fields, and boundless forests - and it was not there. I sought for it in her rich mines, her vast world commerce, her public schools system and in her institutions of higher learning - and it was not there. I looked for it in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution - and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great!" - Alexis de Tocqueville in his book Democracy in America, explaining the remarkably low crime rate in the United States.
"That Book, Sir, is the rock on which our Republic stands." - Andrew Jackson, U.S. president, from his deathbed in reference to the Bible.
"I believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the will and word of God, and I believe Jesus Christ to be the son of God." - Daniel Webster.
"No serious scholar had ventured to postulate the non-historicity of Jesus." - Otto Betz.
"Tell your prince that this book is the secret of England's greatness." - Queen Victoria, referring to the Bible in response to the ambassador of an African prince.
"Everything indicates that here we have an historical individual. As noted above, he is not mentioned in any know archeological source, but his name appears in Babylonia as a personal name in the very period to which he belongs." [Here referring to Abraham]..."The excessive skepticism of many liberal theologians stems not from a careful evaluation of the available data, but from an enormous predisposition against the supernatural...On the whole, however, archeological work has unquestionably strengthened confidence in the reliability of the scriptural record." - Millar Burrows, What Mean These Stones? [New York: Meridian Books, 1956], pp.258-259.
"As a matter of fact, however, it may be stated categorically that no archeological discovery has ever controverted a Biblical reference. Scores of archeological findings have been made which confirm in clear outline or in exact detail historical statements in the Bible. And, by the same token, proper evaluation of Biblical descriptions has often led to amazing discoveries. They form tesserae in the vast mosaic of the Bible's almost incredible correct historical memory." - Dr.Nelson Glueck, Rivers in the Desert [New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1959]. p.31.
"Of the hundreds of thousands of artifacts found by the archeologists, not one has ever been discovered that contradicts or denies one word, phrase, clause, or sentence of the Bible, but always confirms and verifies the facts of the biblical record." - Dr. J.O. Kinnaman, scholar.
"In conclusion, we claim that the assaults upon the integrity and trustworthiness of the Old Testament along the line of language have utterly failed. The critics have not succeeded in a single line of attack in showing that the diction and style of any part of the Old Testament are not in harmony with the ideas and aims of writers who lived at, or near, the time when the events occurred that are recorded in the various documents...We boldly challenge these Goliaths of ex-cathedra theories to come down into the field of ordinary concordances, dictionaries, and literature, and fight a fight to the finish on the level ground of the facts and the evidence." - Dr. Robert Dick Wilson, A Scientific Investigation of the Old Testament [Chicago Moody Press], p. 130.
"It must be extremely significant that, in view of the great mass of corroborative evidence regarding the Biblical history of these periods, there exists today not one unquestionable find of archeology that proves the Bible to be in error at any point." - Henry M. Morris, The Bible and Modern Science [Chicago: Moody Press, 1956].
"For Acts the confirmation of historicity is overwhelming...any attempt to reject it's basic historicity even in matters of detail must now appear absurd." - Sherwin-White, biblical scholar (quoted by Rubel Shelly, Prepare to Answer [Grand Rapids; Baker Book House, 1990])
"We can already say emphatically that there is no longer any solid basis for dating the any book of the New Testament after circa A.D. 80"... after a decade of further archeological discovery...[The New Testament was written] "probably sometime between circa A.D. 50 and 75." - both quotes by Dr. William F. Albright, archeologist and bible scholar. Dr. Albright also wrote that the duration of time between Christ's death and the writing of the New Testament was "too slight to permit any appreciable corruption of the essential center and even of the specific wording of the sayings of Jesus."
"After forty-five years of scholarly research in biblical textual studies and in language study, I have come now to the conclusion that no man knows enough to assail the truthfulness of the Old Testament. When there is sufficient documentary evidence to make an investigation, the statement of the Bible, in the original text, has stood the test." - Dr. Robert Dick Wilson (Speaker's Source Book, p.391)
"Problems still exist, of course, in the complete harmonization of archeological material with the Bible, but none so serious as not to bear real promise of imminent solution through further investigation. It must be extremely significant that, in view of the great mass of corroborative evidence regarding the Biblical history of these periods, there exists today not one unquestionable find of archeology that proves the Bible to be in error at any point." - Henry M. Morris (The Bible and Modern Science [Chicago: Moody Press, 1956] )
"Luke is a historian of the first rank; not merely are his statements of fact trustworthy; he is possessed of the true historic sense,...In short this author should be placed along with the greatest of historians." - William Ramsey, (The Bearing of Recent Discovery on the Trustworthiness of the New Testament, p. 80 [Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1953] )
"The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caeser." - F.F. Bruce, historian (The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?)
"The Acts of the Apostles is now generally agreed in scholarly circles to be the work of Luke, to belong to the first century and to involve the labors of a careful historian who was substantially accurate in his use of sources." - Prof. Merrill F. Unger (Archeology and the New Testament [Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1962] )
"No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." - Thomas Hobbes, philosopher, describing the effects of a society abandoning faith in Christ.
"This Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caesar, Mohammed, and Napoleon; without science and learning, He shed more light on things human and divine than all philosophers and scholars combined; without the eloquence of schools, He spoke such words of life as were never spoken before or since, and produced effects which lie beyond the reach of orator or poet; without writing a single line, He set more pens in motion, and furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions, learned volumes, works of art, and songs of praise than the whole army of great men of ancient and modern times." - Philip Schaff (The Person of Christ [The American Tract Society, 1913] )
"the smallest change in any of the circumstances of the natural world, such as the relative strengths of the forces of nature, or the properties of the elementary particles, would have led to a universe in which there could be no life and no man. For example, if nuclear forces were decreased be few percent, the particles of the universe would not have come together in nuclear reactions to make the ingredients, such as atoms, of which life must be constructed." - Dr. Robert Jastrow, The Intellectuals Speak Out About God [Regent Gateway, 1984], p.21
"All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it the more we feel that it is too complex to have evolved anywhere....We believe as an article of faith that life evolved from dead matter on this planet. It is just that its complexity is so great, it is hard for us to imagine that it did." - Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry.
"I think that the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become dogma can be explained only on sociological grounds" - an unnamed speaker at the Alpach Symposium conference (Gershon Robinson, Mordechai Steinman, The Obvious Proof [New York: CIS Publishers, 1993], p.87).
"Precious little in the way of biochemical evolution could have happened on earth. If one counts the number of trial assemblies of amino acids that are needed to give rise to the enzymes, the probability of their discovery by random shufflings turn out to be less than one in 10-to-the-400,000th-power" - Fred Hoyle, Where Microbes Boldly Went, New Scientist magazine, pp. 412-415.