"Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village"

"The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens"

"I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point"

"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation"

"The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid"

"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land"

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile"

"Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to"

"The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed"