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firefox4th:
Appreciated as the richest american ever lived but Mansa Musa of Mali is the richest as far as being rich is concerned

Recorded as the richest MAN that ever lived. Musa comes behind him though.

ladyF:
Educating.

To think he was a janitor....days of little beginnings.

He was never a janitor as an ordinary man. He was and remained a janitor as a billionaire. it was more of a service to God because he did it in the church.

Samunique:
@OP.

God bless you, more grace to u sir.

Amen.

Rilwayne001:
" "Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest anything that is cruel." - Thomas Paine

thomas paine also said "I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life"....

One can just hope he didnt receive his greatest shock beyond this life.

theAtheist101:
And is it the only teacher? Why would you choose to ignore other teachers? Must you allow your experience overcome you? Would you live in fear all your life, because you are scared some deity could strike you again? You are the one would needs to grow up!

Which other best teacher do we have?. Yes, I have experienced God, my heart is overwhelmed.
We do not live in fear, we do not live without a lamp, we live in freedom.
You will grow up soon enough, you just need time.

NAME; John Davison Rockefeller
OCCUPATION; Famous Business Leaders, Entrepreneur , CEO, Bible study teacher, Janitor.
BIRTH DATE; July 8 , 1839
DEATH DATE; May 23 , 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH; Richford, New York
PLACE OF DEATH; Ormond Beach , Florida


EARLY LIFE
Born in Richford, New York, on July 8, 1839, John Davison Rockefeller moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, at the age of 16. Unafraid of hard work, he took on a number of small-business ventures as a teenager, he got his first job aged 16 as an assistant bookkeeper. This job was for Hewitt & Tuttle, a small produce commission company in New York. He worked very long hours for the princely sum of $0.50 per day, so after three months of work he had earned his first $50. Due to his deeply religious and charitable nature, he promptly gave $5 of it to his church.
During his stint at Hewitt & Tuttle, Rockefeller worked very long hours, but enjoyed life in the office. He became skilled at calculating transport expenses and helped to streamline the company’s expenditure in this area. These transport cost skills were the building blocks for Standard Oil’s monopoly in the oil industry, so his time in the offices of Hewitt & Tuttle paid off well. His insights into the workings of Hewitt & Tuttle also inspired his first business venture, which was a produce commission business. It is said that, during his time as an assistant bookkeeper, Rockefeller came up with two personal goals for his life: To make $100,000 and to live to 100 years old. (He died aged 97 with a fortune of an estimated $663,000,000,000 today).
By the age of 20, Rockefeller, who'd thrived at his job, ventured out his own with a business partner, working as a commission merchant in hay, meats, grains and other goods. At the close of the company's first year in business, it had grossed $450,000. A careful and studious businessman who refrained from taking unnecessary risks, Rockefeller sensed an opportunity in the oil business in the early 1860s. With oil production ramping up in western Pennsylvania, Rockefeller decided that establishing an oil refinery near Cleveland, a short distance from Pittsburgh, would be a good business move. In 1863, he opened his first refinery, and within two years, it was the largest in the area. It didn't take much further success to convince Rockefeller to turn his attention full-time to the oil business.

BUISNESS
In 1870, Rockefeller and his associates incorporated the Standard Oil Company, which immediately prospered, thanks to favorable economic/industry conditions and Rockefeller’s drive to streamline the company’s operations and keep margins high. With success came acquisitions, and Standard began buying out its competitors. Standard’s moves were so quick and sweeping that it controlled the majority of refineries in the Cleveland area within two years. Standard then used its size and ubiquity in the region to make favorable deals with railroads to ship its oil. At the same time, Standard got into the transport business itself with the purchase of pipelines and terminals, setting up a system of transport for its own products. Controlling (or owning) almost every aspect the business, Standard’s grip in the industry tightened, and it even bought thousands of acres of forest for lumber and drilling and to block competitors from running their own pipelines. Standard’s footprint got bigger as well, and it bought up competitors in other regions, soon pursuing ambitions of being an industry player both coast to coast in the U.S. and abroad. In just over a decade since Standard Oil was incorporated, it had a near monopoly of the oil business in the U.S. and consolidated each division under one giant corporate umbrella, with Rockefeller overseeing all of it. Everything Rockefeller had done to this point had led to the first American monopoly, or “trust,” and it would serve as a guiding light for others in big business following behind him.

Unfortunately, with such an aggressive push into the industry, the public and the U.S. Congress took notice of Standard and its seemingly unstoppable march, and they didn’t like what they saw. Monopolistic behavior was generally not something anyone applauded, and Standard became the epitome of a company too big, too dominant, for the public good. Congress jumped into the fray with both feet in 1890 with the Sherman Antitrust Act, and two years later the Ohio Supreme Court deemed Standard Oil a monopoly that stood in violation of Ohio law. Always eager to be a step ahead, Rockefeller dissolved the corporation and allowed each property under the Standard banner to be run by others. The overall hierarchy remained chiefly in place, though, and Standard’s board maintained control of the web of spun-off companies. Just nine years after the company broke itself into pieces in the face of antitrust legislation, those pieces were again reassembled in a holding company. In 1911, though, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the new entity in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and illegal.

John D. Rockefeller was the first person in history to amass a personal fortunate of $1 billion. He didn’t stop there though; he continued to build on his already staggering wealth until it peaked at $1.5 billion after his retirement. When he died, in 1937, his net worth was estimated at around $1.4 billion, with the majority of the cash tied up in family trust funds. To put these figures into perspective for the time, when his fortunes peaked at $1.5 billion, the United States national gross domestic product (GDP) was an estimated $92 billion. This means that Rockefeller held 1.6% of the money of the entire United States! Various methods have been used to adjust Rockefeller’s wealth to account for inflation over time, in order to see how much he would be worth today. The estimates put his personal fortune at an estimated $663 billion. Let’s compare this to the richest man alive, Bill Gates . Gates’ net worth stands at around $78.9 billion at July 2015. This means that the estimate for Rockefeller’s adjusted net worth is over nine times the amount of the richest man on Earth! This makes him far and away the richest man in recorded history. By the time he died Rockefeller was known as a massively generous philanthropist.
In 1912, the year the Titanic sank, Rockefeller had the oppourtunity to insure the Titanic. This deal would have made him the richest man that ever lived (richer than King Solomon as some people believe). But he kept on saying that the Holy spirit said No. If he had gone ahead with the deal, this means that his fortune would have suffered a serious setback the very day the ship sank. Amazed by his strategies and instincts, Rockefeller reiterated during several interviews and public speaking that "God gave me this money"

CHRISTIAN LIFE
Regarding his Christian faith, Rockefeller would read the Bible daily, attend prayer meetings twice a week and even led his own Bible study with his wife.He was also the church janitor. He tithed, rested on the Sabbath and gave away much of his money to charity. Burton Folsom Jr. has noted, “he sometimes gave tens of thousands of dollars to Christian groups, while, at the same time, he was trying to borrow over a million dollar to expand his business.” Additionally, Rockefeller took time to spend with his family, something that confused many businessmen. Rockefeller’s philanthropy was extensive. As his own personal fortune grew, so did the amount of money he gave to good causes. Historians estimate that he gave away more than half of his fortune. Rockefeller routinely gave his money away. Ever since his very first pay check, of which he donated 10% to the Erie Street Mission Baptist Church, he charitably gave away a portion of his earnings. Throughout his career and life he offered considerable donations to many organisations, mainly focussing on medical research (he was a major factor in the eradication of hookworm and yellow fever), public education, and scientific research.
His philosophy of giving was founded upon biblical principles. He truly believed in the biblical principle found in Luke 6:38, “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
With Rockefeller’s philanthropy, people were able to build schools, churches and hospitals. He was able to support missionaries and was able to bring the message of Christianity the whole world. His giving also led to vast improvements in education for many. He gave tens of millions to the University of Chicago, black schools, Southern schools and Baptist schools. Yet, not all the schools continually received money; improved results were a requirement. This was based upon Rockefeller’s interpretation of the parable of the talents and the Apostle Paul’s writing that, “if any would not work, neither should he eat.”
As he neared the end of his life, Rockefeller learned how to enjoy the small things in life. He learned how to tango, hired a caddy to help with his golf swing and spent more time with his family—especially his grandkids. He would also watch people who passed his house and gave dimes to children telling them to work and to save.
Rockefeller was an amazing Christian, and that he successfully passed the faith on to his son, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Because of his Biblical recognition that having great wealth would bring an equally great responsibility and accounting before God, Junior was reluctant to assume control of his father’s empire, when Senior wanted to retire. John Jr. raised his children to be God fearing Bible believing Christians. They prayed, memorized scriptures daily, and were taught to live moral Christian lives. He and his wife Abbey had six children, a daughter and the five Rockefeller brothers.
But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for [it is] He that giveth thee power to get wealth, that He may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as [it is] this day -- Deuteronomy 8:18.
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success -- Joshua 1:8.
Rockefeller serves as a great example of what it means to be a good steward of what God has given us. He also is a reminder to abide by those seemingly counterintuitive instructions to rest on the Sabbath and to give so that we might have more.

MORE FACTS ABOUT ROCKEFELLER
1. He is considered the richest person in history, with an estimated net worth when he was alive of $660 billion in 2007 USD equivalent.
2. Rockefeller became well known in his later life for the practice of giving dimes to adults and nickels to children wherever he went. He even gave dimes as a playful gesture to wealthy men, such as tire mogul Harvey Firestone.
3. The Rockefeller Foundation has distributed more than $14 billion in current dollars.
4. By the 1870s, Standard Oil held nearly 90% share in the oil refining industry of the US.
5. He taught Sunday school, served as a trustee, clerk, and occasional janitor at the Erie Street Baptist Mission Church in Cleveland.
6. Standard Oil wanted to make sure customers knew they were getting 42 gallon in a barrel of oil, so Rockefeller shipped his oil in a distinctive blue barrel. Today a barrel of oil is abbreviated “bbl,” and the first “b” stands for “blue.”
7. Rockefeller remained totally abstinent from alcohol and tobacco throughout his life.
8. Rockefeller’s father was a traveling conman who traveled the country selling herbal-remedies, gaining him the nickname “Doc Rockefeller.”
9. John D. Rockefeller’s personal fortune accounted for over 1.5% of the total United States GDP in 1937.
10. Every year, Rockefeller celebrated the anniversary of landing his first job.
11. He hired substitute soldiers to avoid Civil War combat.
12. The court-ordered breakup of Standard Oil made Rockefeller hundreds of millions of dollars. The monopoly was broken up into 34 separate entities that included companies that would become ExxonMobil, Conoco, Chevron and Amoco. The court order turned out to be a financial windfall for Rockefeller, who still held a quarter of Standard Oil’s stock after his retirement. The individual pieces of the company were worth more than the whole, and as shares of the individual companies doubled and tripled in value in their early years.
13. Winston Churchill would have written Rockefeller’s biography—if his price hadn’t been so high.
14. Rockefeller suffered from alopecia and lost all hair from his body and head in his 40s.
15. Rockefeller lived so long that his life insurance company had to pay him $5 million.

SOME SELECTED ROCKEFELLER QUOTES
"If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it".
"Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing".
"This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have".
"There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ".
"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people".
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship".
"I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake".
"Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing".
"I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts".


Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper -- ps 1:1-6.

donholy28:
He's dead...where is the money now?

Probably continuing in his prosperity in Heaven.

theAtheist101:
What criteria did you use to gauge the age? And why is age paramount?

If age is so important, then, for instance, can a so called uneducated old man know all things than an educated child?

You must really be a kid....Have you never heard the saying " Experience is the best teacher".

NAME; John Davison Rockefeller
OCCUPATION; Famous Business Leaders, Entrepreneur , CEO, Bible study teacher, Janitor.
BIRTH DATE; July 8 , 1839
DEATH DATE; May 23 , 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH; Richford, New York
PLACE OF DEATH; Ormond Beach , Florida


EARLY LIFE
Born in Richford, New York, on July 8, 1839, John Davison Rockefeller moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, at the age of 16. Unafraid of hard work, he took on a number of small-business ventures as a teenager, he got his first job aged 16 as an assistant bookkeeper. This job was for Hewitt & Tuttle, a small produce commission company in New York. He worked very long hours for the princely sum of $0.50 per day, so after three months of work he had earned his first $50. Due to his deeply religious and charitable nature, he promptly gave $5 of it to his church.
During his stint at Hewitt & Tuttle, Rockefeller worked very long hours, but enjoyed life in the office. He became skilled at calculating transport expenses and helped to streamline the company’s expenditure in this area. These transport cost skills were the building blocks for Standard Oil’s monopoly in the oil industry, so his time in the offices of Hewitt & Tuttle paid off well. His insights into the workings of Hewitt & Tuttle also inspired his first business venture, which was a produce commission business. It is said that, during his time as an assistant bookkeeper, Rockefeller came up with two personal goals for his life: To make $100,000 and to live to 100 years old. (He died aged 97 with a fortune of an estimated $663,000,000,000 today).
By the age of 20, Rockefeller, who'd thrived at his job, ventured out his own with a business partner, working as a commission merchant in hay, meats, grains and other goods. At the close of the company's first year in business, it had grossed $450,000. A careful and studious businessman who refrained from taking unnecessary risks, Rockefeller sensed an opportunity in the oil business in the early 1860s. With oil production ramping up in western Pennsylvania, Rockefeller decided that establishing an oil refinery near Cleveland, a short distance from Pittsburgh, would be a good business move. In 1863, he opened his first refinery, and within two years, it was the largest in the area. It didn't take much further success to convince Rockefeller to turn his attention full-time to the oil business.

BUISNESS
In 1870, Rockefeller and his associates incorporated the Standard Oil Company, which immediately prospered, thanks to favorable economic/industry conditions and Rockefeller’s drive to streamline the company’s operations and keep margins high. With success came acquisitions, and Standard began buying out its competitors. Standard’s moves were so quick and sweeping that it controlled the majority of refineries in the Cleveland area within two years. Standard then used its size and ubiquity in the region to make favorable deals with railroads to ship its oil. At the same time, Standard got into the transport business itself with the purchase of pipelines and terminals, setting up a system of transport for its own products. Controlling (or owning) almost every aspect the business, Standard’s grip in the industry tightened, and it even bought thousands of acres of forest for lumber and drilling and to block competitors from running their own pipelines. Standard’s footprint got bigger as well, and it bought up competitors in other regions, soon pursuing ambitions of being an industry player both coast to coast in the U.S. and abroad. In just over a decade since Standard Oil was incorporated, it had a near monopoly of the oil business in the U.S. and consolidated each division under one giant corporate umbrella, with Rockefeller overseeing all of it. Everything Rockefeller had done to this point had led to the first American monopoly, or “trust,” and it would serve as a guiding light for others in big business following behind him.

Unfortunately, with such an aggressive push into the industry, the public and the U.S. Congress took notice of Standard and its seemingly unstoppable march, and they didn’t like what they saw. Monopolistic behavior was generally not something anyone applauded, and Standard became the epitome of a company too big, too dominant, for the public good. Congress jumped into the fray with both feet in 1890 with the Sherman Antitrust Act, and two years later the Ohio Supreme Court deemed Standard Oil a monopoly that stood in violation of Ohio law. Always eager to be a step ahead, Rockefeller dissolved the corporation and allowed each property under the Standard banner to be run by others. The overall hierarchy remained chiefly in place, though, and Standard’s board maintained control of the web of spun-off companies. Just nine years after the company broke itself into pieces in the face of antitrust legislation, those pieces were again reassembled in a holding company. In 1911, though, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the new entity in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and illegal.

John D. Rockefeller was the first person in history to amass a personal fortunate of $1 billion. He didn’t stop there though; he continued to build on his already staggering wealth until it peaked at $1.5 billion after his retirement. When he died, in 1937, his net worth was estimated at around $1.4 billion, with the majority of the cash tied up in family trust funds. To put these figures into perspective for the time, when his fortunes peaked at $1.5 billion, the United States national gross domestic product (GDP) was an estimated $92 billion. This means that Rockefeller held 1.6% of the money of the entire United States! Various methods have been used to adjust Rockefeller’s wealth to account for inflation over time, in order to see how much he would be worth today. The estimates put his personal fortune at an estimated $663 billion. Let’s compare this to the richest man alive, Bill Gates . Gates’ net worth stands at around $78.9 billion at July 2015. This means that the estimate for Rockefeller’s adjusted net worth is over nine times the amount of the richest man on Earth! This makes him far and away the richest man in recorded history. By the time he died Rockefeller was known as a massively generous philanthropist.
In 1912, the year the Titanic sank, Rockefeller had the oppourtunity to insure the Titanic. This deal would have made him the richest man that ever lived (richer than King Solomon as some people believe). But he kept on saying that the Holy spirit said No. If he had gone ahead with the deal, this means that his fortune would have suffered a serious setback the very day the ship sank. Amazed by his strategies and instincts, Rockefeller reiterated during several interviews and public speaking that "God gave me this money"

CHRISTIAN LIFE
Regarding his Christian faith, Rockefeller would read the Bible daily, attend prayer meetings twice a week and even led his own Bible study with his wife.He was also the church janitor. He tithed, rested on the Sabbath and gave away much of his money to charity. Burton Folsom Jr. has noted, “he sometimes gave tens of thousands of dollars to Christian groups, while, at the same time, he was trying to borrow over a million dollar to expand his business.” Additionally, Rockefeller took time to spend with his family, something that confused many businessmen. Rockefeller’s philanthropy was extensive. As his own personal fortune grew, so did the amount of money he gave to good causes. Historians estimate that he gave away more than half of his fortune. Rockefeller routinely gave his money away. Ever since his very first pay check, of which he donated 10% to the Erie Street Mission Baptist Church, he charitably gave away a portion of his earnings. Throughout his career and life he offered considerable donations to many organisations, mainly focussing on medical research (he was a major factor in the eradication of hookworm and yellow fever), public education, and scientific research.
His philosophy of giving was founded upon biblical principles. He truly believed in the biblical principle found in Luke 6:38, “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
With Rockefeller’s philanthropy, people were able to build schools, churches and hospitals. He was able to support missionaries and was able to bring the message of Christianity the whole world. His giving also led to vast improvements in education for many. He gave tens of millions to the University of Chicago, black schools, Southern schools and Baptist schools. Yet, not all the schools continually received money; improved results were a requirement. This was based upon Rockefeller’s interpretation of the parable of the talents and the Apostle Paul’s writing that, “if any would not work, neither should he eat.”
As he neared the end of his life, Rockefeller learned how to enjoy the small things in life. He learned how to tango, hired a caddy to help with his golf swing and spent more time with his family—especially his grandkids. He would also watch people who passed his house and gave dimes to children telling them to work and to save.
Rockefeller was an amazing Christian, and that he successfully passed the faith on to his son, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Because of his Biblical recognition that having great wealth would bring an equally great responsibility and accounting before God, Junior was reluctant to assume control of his father’s empire, when Senior wanted to retire. John Jr. raised his children to be God fearing Bible believing Christians. They prayed, memorized scriptures daily, and were taught to live moral Christian lives. He and his wife Abbey had six children, a daughter and the five Rockefeller brothers.
But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for [it is] He that giveth thee power to get wealth, that He may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as [it is] this day -- Deuteronomy 8:18.
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success -- Joshua 1:8.
Rockefeller serves as a great example of what it means to be a good steward of what God has given us. He also is a reminder to abide by those seemingly counterintuitive instructions to rest on the Sabbath and to give so that we might have more.

MORE FACTS ABOUT ROCKEFELLER
1. He is considered the richest person in history, with an estimated net worth when he was alive of $660 billion in 2007 USD equivalent.
2. Rockefeller became well known in his later life for the practice of giving dimes to adults and nickels to children wherever he went. He even gave dimes as a playful gesture to wealthy men, such as tire mogul Harvey Firestone.
3. The Rockefeller Foundation has distributed more than $14 billion in current dollars.
4. By the 1870s, Standard Oil held nearly 90% share in the oil refining industry of the US.
5. He taught Sunday school, served as a trustee, clerk, and occasional janitor at the Erie Street Baptist Mission Church in Cleveland.
6. Standard Oil wanted to make sure customers knew they were getting 42 gallon in a barrel of oil, so Rockefeller shipped his oil in a distinctive blue barrel. Today a barrel of oil is abbreviated “bbl,” and the first “b” stands for “blue.”
7. Rockefeller remained totally abstinent from alcohol and tobacco throughout his life.
8. Rockefeller’s father was a traveling conman who traveled the country selling herbal-remedies, gaining him the nickname “Doc Rockefeller.”
9. John D. Rockefeller’s personal fortune accounted for over 1.5% of the total United States GDP in 1937.
10. Every year, Rockefeller celebrated the anniversary of landing his first job.
11. He hired substitute soldiers to avoid Civil War combat.
12. The court-ordered breakup of Standard Oil made Rockefeller hundreds of millions of dollars. The monopoly was broken up into 34 separate entities that included companies that would become ExxonMobil, Conoco, Chevron and Amoco. The court order turned out to be a financial windfall for Rockefeller, who still held a quarter of Standard Oil’s stock after his retirement. The individual pieces of the company were worth more than the whole, and as shares of the individual companies doubled and tripled in value in their early years.
13. Winston Churchill would have written Rockefeller’s biography—if his price hadn’t been so high.
14. Rockefeller suffered from alopecia and lost all hair from his body and head in his 40s.
15. Rockefeller lived so long that his life insurance company had to pay him $5 million.


SOME SELECTED ROCKEFELLER QUOTES
"If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it".
"Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing".
"This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have".
"There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ".
"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people".
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship".
"I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake".
"Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing".
"I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts".


Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper -- ps 1:1-6.

NAME; John Davison Rockefeller
OCCUPATION; Famous Business Leaders, Entrepreneur , CEO, Bible study teacher, Janitor.
BIRTH DATE; July 8 , 1839
DEATH DATE; May 23 , 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH; Richford, New York
PLACE OF DEATH; Ormond Beach , Florida


EARLY LIFE
Born in Richford, New York, on July 8, 1839, John Davison Rockefeller moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, at the age of 16. Unafraid of hard work, he took on a number of small-business ventures as a teenager, he got his first job aged 16 as an assistant bookkeeper. This job was for Hewitt & Tuttle, a small produce commission company in New York. He worked very long hours for the princely sum of $0.50 per day, so after three months of work he had earned his first $50. Due to his deeply religious and charitable nature, he promptly gave $5 of it to his church.
During his stint at Hewitt & Tuttle, Rockefeller worked very long hours, but enjoyed life in the office. He became skilled at calculating transport expenses and helped to streamline the company’s expenditure in this area. These transport cost skills were the building blocks for Standard Oil’s monopoly in the oil industry, so his time in the offices of Hewitt & Tuttle paid off well. His insights into the workings of Hewitt & Tuttle also inspired his first business venture, which was a produce commission business. It is said that, during his time as an assistant bookkeeper, Rockefeller came up with two personal goals for his life: To make $100,000 and to live to 100 years old. (He died aged 97 with a fortune of an estimated $663,000,000,000 today).
By the age of 20, Rockefeller, who'd thrived at his job, ventured out his own with a business partner, working as a commission merchant in hay, meats, grains and other goods. At the close of the company's first year in business, it had grossed $450,000. A careful and studious businessman who refrained from taking unnecessary risks, Rockefeller sensed an opportunity in the oil business in the early 1860s. With oil production ramping up in western Pennsylvania, Rockefeller decided that establishing an oil refinery near Cleveland, a short distance from Pittsburgh, would be a good business move. In 1863, he opened his first refinery, and within two years, it was the largest in the area. It didn't take much further success to convince Rockefeller to turn his attention full-time to the oil business.

BUISNESS
In 1870, Rockefeller and his associates incorporated the Standard Oil Company, which immediately prospered, thanks to favorable economic/industry conditions and Rockefeller’s drive to streamline the company’s operations and keep margins high. With success came acquisitions, and Standard began buying out its competitors. Standard’s moves were so quick and sweeping that it controlled the majority of refineries in the Cleveland area within two years. Standard then used its size and ubiquity in the region to make favorable deals with railroads to ship its oil. At the same time, Standard got into the transport business itself with the purchase of pipelines and terminals, setting up a system of transport for its own products. Controlling (or owning) almost every aspect the business, Standard’s grip in the industry tightened, and it even bought thousands of acres of forest for lumber and drilling and to block competitors from running their own pipelines. Standard’s footprint got bigger as well, and it bought up competitors in other regions, soon pursuing ambitions of being an industry player both coast to coast in the U.S. and abroad. In just over a decade since Standard Oil was incorporated, it had a near monopoly of the oil business in the U.S. and consolidated each division under one giant corporate umbrella, with Rockefeller overseeing all of it. Everything Rockefeller had done to this point had led to the first American monopoly, or “trust,” and it would serve as a guiding light for others in big business following behind him.

Unfortunately, with such an aggressive push into the industry, the public and the U.S. Congress took notice of Standard and its seemingly unstoppable march, and they didn’t like what they saw. Monopolistic behavior was generally not something anyone applauded, and Standard became the epitome of a company too big, too dominant, for the public good. Congress jumped into the fray with both feet in 1890 with the Sherman Antitrust Act, and two years later the Ohio Supreme Court deemed Standard Oil a monopoly that stood in violation of Ohio law. Always eager to be a step ahead, Rockefeller dissolved the corporation and allowed each property under the Standard banner to be run by others. The overall hierarchy remained chiefly in place, though, and Standard’s board maintained control of the web of spun-off companies. Just nine years after the company broke itself into pieces in the face of antitrust legislation, those pieces were again reassembled in a holding company. In 1911, though, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the new entity in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and illegal.

John D. Rockefeller was the first person in history to amass a personal fortunate of $1 billion. He didn’t stop there though; he continued to build on his already staggering wealth until it peaked at $1.5 billion after his retirement. When he died, in 1937, his net worth was estimated at around $1.4 billion, with the majority of the cash tied up in family trust funds. To put these figures into perspective for the time, when his fortunes peaked at $1.5 billion, the United States national gross domestic product (GDP) was an estimated $92 billion. This means that Rockefeller held 1.6% of the money of the entire United States! Various methods have been used to adjust Rockefeller’s wealth to account for inflation over time, in order to see how much he would be worth today. The estimates put his personal fortune at an estimated $663 billion. Let’s compare this to the richest man alive, Bill Gates . Gates’ net worth stands at around $78.9 billion at July 2015. This means that the estimate for Rockefeller’s adjusted net worth is over nine times the amount of the richest man on Earth! This makes him far and away the richest man in recorded history. By the time he died Rockefeller was known as a massively generous philanthropist.
In 1912, the year the Titanic sank, Rockefeller had the oppourtunity to insure the Titanic. This deal would have made him the richest man that ever lived (richer than King Solomon as some people believe). But he kept on saying that the Holy spirit said No. If he had gone ahead with the deal, this means that his fortune would have suffered a serious setback the very day the ship sank. Amazed by his strategies and instincts, Rockefeller reiterated during several interviews and public speaking that "God gave me this money"

CHRISTIAN LIFE
Regarding his Christian faith, Rockefeller would read the Bible daily, attend prayer meetings twice a week and even led his own Bible study with his wife.He was also the church janitor. He tithed, rested on the Sabbath and gave away much of his money to charity. Burton Folsom Jr. has noted, “he sometimes gave tens of thousands of dollars to Christian groups, while, at the same time, he was trying to borrow over a million dollar to expand his business.” Additionally, Rockefeller took time to spend with his family, something that confused many businessmen. Rockefeller’s philanthropy was extensive. As his own personal fortune grew, so did the amount of money he gave to good causes. Historians estimate that he gave away more than half of his fortune. Rockefeller routinely gave his money away. Ever since his very first pay check, of which he donated 10% to the Erie Street Mission Baptist Church, he charitably gave away a portion of his earnings. Throughout his career and life he offered considerable donations to many organisations, mainly focussing on medical research (he was a major factor in the eradication of hookworm and yellow fever), public education, and scientific research.
His philosophy of giving was founded upon biblical principles. He truly believed in the biblical principle found in Luke 6:38, “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
With Rockefeller’s philanthropy, people were able to build schools, churches and hospitals. He was able to support missionaries and was able to bring the message of Christianity the whole world. His giving also led to vast improvements in education for many. He gave tens of millions to the University of Chicago, black schools, Southern schools and Baptist schools. Yet, not all the schools continually received money; improved results were a requirement. This was based upon Rockefeller’s interpretation of the parable of the talents and the Apostle Paul’s writing that, “if any would not work, neither should he eat.”
As he neared the end of his life, Rockefeller learned how to enjoy the small things in life. He learned how to tango, hired a caddy to help with his golf swing and spent more time with his family—especially his grandkids. He would also watch people who passed his house and gave dimes to children telling them to work and to save.
Rockefeller was an amazing Christian, and that he successfully passed the faith on to his son, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Because of his Biblical recognition that having great wealth would bring an equally great responsibility and accounting before God, Junior was reluctant to assume control of his father’s empire, when Senior wanted to retire. John Jr. raised his children to be God fearing Bible believing Christians. They prayed, memorized scriptures daily, and were taught to live moral Christian lives. He and his wife Abbey had six children, a daughter and the five Rockefeller brothers.
But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for [it is] He that giveth thee power to get wealth, that He may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as [it is] this day -- Deuteronomy 8:18.
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success -- Joshua 1:8.
Rockefeller serves as a great example of what it means to be a good steward of what God has given us. He also is a reminder to abide by those seemingly counterintuitive instructions to rest on the Sabbath and to give so that we might have more.

MORE FACTS ABOUT ROCKEFELLER
1. He is considered the richest person in history, with an estimated net worth when he was alive of $660 billion in 2007 USD equivalent.
2. Rockefeller became well known in his later life for the practice of giving dimes to adults and nickels to children wherever he went. He even gave dimes as a playful gesture to wealthy men, such as tire mogul Harvey Firestone.
3. The Rockefeller Foundation has distributed more than $14 billion in current dollars.
4. By the 1870s, Standard Oil held nearly 90% share in the oil refining industry of the US.
5. He taught Sunday school, served as a trustee, clerk, and occasional janitor at the Erie Street Baptist Mission Church in Cleveland.
6. Standard Oil wanted to make sure customers knew they were getting 42 gallon in a barrel of oil, so Rockefeller shipped his oil in a distinctive blue barrel. Today a barrel of oil is abbreviated “bbl,” and the first “b” stands for “blue.”
7. Rockefeller remained totally abstinent from alcohol and tobacco throughout his life.
8. Rockefeller’s father was a traveling conman who traveled the country selling herbal-remedies, gaining him the nickname “Doc Rockefeller.”
9. John D. Rockefeller’s personal fortune accounted for over 1.5% of the total United States GDP in 1937.
10. Every year, Rockefeller celebrated the anniversary of landing his first job.
11. He hired substitute soldiers to avoid Civil War combat.
12. The court-ordered breakup of Standard Oil made Rockefeller hundreds of millions of dollars. The monopoly was broken up into 34 separate entities that included companies that would become ExxonMobil, Conoco, Chevron and Amoco. The court order turned out to be a financial windfall for Rockefeller, who still held a quarter of Standard Oil’s stock after his retirement. The individual pieces of the company were worth more than the whole, and as shares of the individual companies doubled and tripled in value in their early years.
13. Winston Churchill would have written Rockefeller’s biography—if his price hadn’t been so high.
14. Rockefeller suffered from alopecia and lost all hair from his body and head in his 40s.
15. Rockefeller lived so long that his life insurance company had to pay him $5 million.

SOME SELECTED ROCKEFELLER QUOTES
"If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it".
"Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing".
"This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have".
"There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ".
"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people".
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship".
"I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake".
"Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing".
"I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts".


Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper -- ps 1:1-6.

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Cecil B. DeMille
"After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the BIBLE, I never fail to find it always new and marvellously in tune with the changing needs of every day"

Timothy Dwight
"The BIBLE is a window in this prison world, through which we may look into eternity"

Ernest von Dobschutz
"There is a small book: one can put it in one's pocket, and yet all the libraries of America, numerous as they are, would hardly be large enough to hold all the books which have been inspired by this one little volume. The reader will know what I am speaking of; it is the BIBLE, as we are used to call it -- the Book, the book of mankind, as it has properly been called"

Steve Maraboli; Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.”

John Adams (1735-1826)
"The Bible contains more philosophy than all the libraries that I have ever seen, & such parts as I cannot reconcile with my little philosophy, I postpone for future investigation".

J. Hamilton
"The Word of GOD will stand a thousand readings, and he who has gone over it most frequently is the surest of finding new wonders there"

Emanuel Swedenborg
"We are, because GOD is"

Mark Victor Hansen
"With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The BIBLE says, ' Without vision we perish''"

Everett T. Harris
"No one ever graduates from BIBLE study until he meets the Author face to face"

Jack Hayford
"The BIBLE is ... as necessary to spiritual life as breath is to natural life. There is nothing more essential to our lives than the Word of GOD."

James McCosh
"The book to read is not one which thinks for you, but the one that makes you think. No other book in the world equals the BIBLE for that"

J. Vernon McGee
"GOD's Word is as good as He is. There is an old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well, GOD is as good as His Word. His character is behind what He has said."

John Wesley
“ I want to know one thing, the way to heaven: how to land safe on that happy shore. God himself has condescended to teach the way; for this very end he came from heaven. He has written it down in a book! Oh, give me that book! At any price, give me the book of God! I have it: here is knowledge enough for me. Let me be: “A man of one book.”

Time Magazine
"Reputable scholars now believe that the New Testament account is reliable history.”

Students of Natural Sciences
"We the undersigned, students of the Natural Sciences, desire to express our sincere regret that researchers into scientific truth are perverted by some in our own times into occassion for casting doubt upon the truth and authenticity of the Holy Scriptures. We conceive that it is impossible for the Word of G-D written in the book of nature, and G-D's Word written in Holy Scripture, to contradict one another ... physical science is not complete, but is only in a condition of progress" -- [Signed by 800 scientists of Great Britain, recorded in Bodelian Library, Oxford].

From the translators to the readers in the introduction to the original 1611 King James Bible.
"We do not deny, nay we affirm and avow, that the very meanest translation of the Bible in English, set forth by men of our profession, containeth the word of God, nay, is the word of God: as the King’s speech which he uttered in Parliament, being translated into French, Dutch, Italian, and Latin, is still the King’s speech, though it not be interpreted by every translator with the like grace nor peradventure so fitly for phrase, nor so expressly for sense, everywhere".



Isaiah 40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Thomas Carlyle
"The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long- forgotten home".

John Locke
"The BIBLE is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by GOD on the children of men -- It has GOD for its Author, Salvation for its end, and Truth without any mixture for its matter. -- It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting"

Thomas B. Macaulay
"Western literature has been more influenced by the BIBLE than any other book"

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

William Foxwell Albright, American Archaeologist and educator known for his excavations of biblical sites, 1891-1971
“The Bible towers in content above all earlier religious literature; and it towers just as impressively over all subsequent literature in the direct simplicity of its message and the catholicity of its appeal to men of all lands and times.”

Prof. Edward Meyer, University of Berlin, one of the greatest living authorities on ancient history
Concerning the Bible said:
“…There is no ground at all for refusing to accept these oldest traditions as historically trustworthy in all essentials, and in their chronological ordering of history.”

Francis Bacon , English statesman and writer, 1597 Called the Bible:
“The book of God’s word.”

Malcolm Muggeridge
"There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory"

Nachmanides
"This was the purpose of the whole creation, that man should recognize and know Him and give praise to His Name"

John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
"The first & almost only book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. I speak as a man of the World. So great is my veneration for the Bible, that the earlier my children begin to read it, the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country & respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year".

Mark Twain
“It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it’s the parts that I do understand.”

Alexander Cruden
"All other Books are of little importance in comparison with the Holy Scriptures"

Dwight Lyman Moody
“Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.”
“The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.”

Malcolm Muggeridge , British broadcaster, 1903-1990
“People say that the Bible is a boring book…but they don’t say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.”

Victor Hugo , French writer, 1802-1885
“England has two books; the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England.”

Salmon P. Chase
"There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would try the Book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long, serious and profound study and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the BIBLE is a supernatural Book, that it has come from GOD, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings"

Rufus Choate
"No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the BIBLE"

Goethe , German writer and scientist, 1749-1832
“I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.”

Franklin Rooselvelt (1882-1945)
The influence of the Bible in the early days of the Republic is plainly revealed in the writing & thinking of the men who made the nation possible...They found in the Scriptures that which shaped their course & determined their cause.

James W. Alexander
"The study of GOD's W-rd, for the purpose of discovering GOD's will, is the secret discipline which has formed the greatest characters"

Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
To the influence of the Book we are indebted for the progress made in civilisation, & to this we must look as our guide in the future. The Bible is the sheet-anchor of our liberties.

Sir Frederic Kenyon, Director and principal librarian of the British museum, foremost expert on ancient manuscripts:
“The interval between the dates of original composition (of the N.T.) and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact negligible and the foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed; both the authenticity and the general integrity of the books of the N.T. may be regarded as firmly established.”

Jim McCotter
“All Scripture is God-breathed and He doesn’t waste His breath.”

Søren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”

Albert Baird Cummins
"The empire of Caesar is gone; the legions of Rome are smouldering in the dust; the avalanches of Napoleon hurled upon Europe have melted away, the prince of the pharoahs is fallen; the pyramids they raised to be their tombs are sinking every day in the desert sands; Tyre is a rock for bleaching fisherman's nets; Sidon has scarcely left a wreck behind; but the WORD OF GOD still survives: All things that threatened to extinguish it have only aided it; and it proves every day how transient is the noblest monument that men can build, how enduring is the least Word that GOD has spoken"

J. I. Packer
"One of the many divine qualities of the BIBLE is this: that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and censorious"

Kenyon A. Palmer
"GOD's Road Map -- The BIBLE"

Cecil B. DeMille
"After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the BIBLE, I never fail to find it always new and marvellously in tune with the changing needs of every day"

Timothy Dwight
"The BIBLE is a window in this prison world, through which we may look into eternity"

Ernest von Dobschutz
"There is a small book: one can put it in one's pocket, and yet all the libraries of America, numerous as they are, would hardly be large enough to hold all the books which have been inspired by this one little volume. The reader will know what I am speaking of; it is the BIBLE, as we are used to call it -- the Book, the book of mankind, as it has properly been called"

Steve Maraboli; Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.”

John Adams (1735-1826)
"The Bible contains more philosophy than all the libraries that I have ever seen, & such parts as I cannot reconcile with my little philosophy, I postpone for future investigation".

J. Hamilton
"The Word of GOD will stand a thousand readings, and he who has gone over it most frequently is the surest of finding new wonders there"

Emanuel Swedenborg
"We are, because GOD is"

Mark Victor Hansen
"With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The BIBLE says, ' Without vision we perish''"

Everett T. Harris
"No one ever graduates from BIBLE study until he meets the Author face to face"

Jack Hayford
"The BIBLE is ... as necessary to spiritual life as breath is to natural life. There is nothing more essential to our lives than the Word of GOD."

James McCosh
"The book to read is not one which thinks for you, but the one that makes you think. No other book in the world equals the BIBLE for that"

J. Vernon McGee
"GOD's Word is as good as He is. There is an old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well, GOD is as good as His Word. His character is behind what He has said."

John Wesley
“ I want to know one thing, the way to heaven: how to land safe on that happy shore. God himself has condescended to teach the way; for this very end he came from heaven. He has written it down in a book! Oh, give me that book! At any price, give me the book of God! I have it: here is knowledge enough for me. Let me be: “A man of one book.”

Time Magazine
"Reputable scholars now believe that the New Testament account is reliable history.”

Students of Natural Sciences
"We the undersigned, students of the Natural Sciences, desire to express our sincere regret that researchers into scientific truth are perverted by some in our own times into occassion for casting doubt upon the truth and authenticity of the Holy Scriptures. We conceive that it is impossible for the Word of G-D written in the book of nature, and G-D's Word written in Holy Scripture, to contradict one another ... physical science is not complete, but is only in a condition of progress" -- [Signed by 800 scientists of Great Britain, recorded in Bodelian Library, Oxford].

From the translators to the readers in the introduction to the original 1611 King James Bible.
"We do not deny, nay we affirm and avow, that the very meanest translation of the Bible in English, set forth by men of our profession, containeth the word of God, nay, is the word of God: as the King’s speech which he uttered in Parliament, being translated into French, Dutch, Italian, and Latin, is still the King’s speech, though it not be interpreted by every translator with the like grace nor peradventure so fitly for phrase, nor so expressly for sense, everywhere".



Isaiah 40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Albert Baird Cummins
"The empire of Caesar is gone; the legions of Rome are smouldering in the dust; the avalanches of Napoleon hurled upon Europe have melted away, the prince of the pharoahs is fallen; the pyramids they raised to be their tombs are sinking every day in the desert sands; Tyre is a rock for bleaching fisherman's nets; Sidon has scarcely left a wreck behind; but the WORD OF GOD still survives: All things that threatened to extinguish it have only aided it; and it proves every day how transient is the noblest monument that men can build, how enduring is the least Word that GOD has spoken"

J. I. Packer
"One of the many divine qualities of the BIBLE is this: that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and censorious"

Kenyon A. Palmer
"GOD's Road Map -- The BIBLE"

Cecil B. DeMille
"After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the BIBLE, I never fail to find it always new and marvellously in tune with the changing needs of every day"

Timothy Dwight
"The BIBLE is a window in this prison world, through which we may look into eternity"

Ernest von Dobschutz
"There is a small book: one can put it in one's pocket, and yet all the libraries of America, numerous as they are, would hardly be large enough to hold all the books which have been inspired by this one little volume. The reader will know what I am speaking of; it is the BIBLE, as we are used to call it -- the Book, the book of mankind, as it has properly been called"

Steve Maraboli; Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.”

John Adams (1735-1826)
"The Bible contains more philosophy than all the libraries that I have ever seen, & such parts as I cannot reconcile with my little philosophy, I postpone for future investigation".

J. Hamilton
"The Word of GOD will stand a thousand readings, and he who has gone over it most frequently is the surest of finding new wonders there"

Emanuel Swedenborg
"We are, because GOD is"

Mark Victor Hansen
"With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The BIBLE says, ' Without vision we perish''"

Everett T. Harris
"No one ever graduates from BIBLE study until he meets the Author face to face"

Jack Hayford
"The BIBLE is ... as necessary to spiritual life as breath is to natural life. There is nothing more essential to our lives than the Word of GOD."

James McCosh
"The book to read is not one which thinks for you, but the one that makes you think. No other book in the world equals the BIBLE for that"

J. Vernon McGee
"GOD's Word is as good as He is. There is an old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well, GOD is as good as His Word. His character is behind what He has said."

John Wesley
“ I want to know one thing, the way to heaven: how to land safe on that happy shore. God himself has condescended to teach the way; for this very end he came from heaven. He has written it down in a book! Oh, give me that book! At any price, give me the book of God! I have it: here is knowledge enough for me. Let me be: “A man of one book.”

Time Magazine
"Reputable scholars now believe that the New Testament account is reliable history.”

Students of Natural Sciences
"We the undersigned, students of the Natural Sciences, desire to express our sincere regret that researchers into scientific truth are perverted by some in our own times into occassion for casting doubt upon the truth and authenticity of the Holy Scriptures. We conceive that it is impossible for the Word of G-D written in the book of nature, and G-D's Word written in Holy Scripture, to contradict one another ... physical science is not complete, but is only in a condition of progress" -- [Signed by 800 scientists of Great Britain, recorded in Bodelian Library, Oxford].

From the translators to the readers in the introduction to the original 1611 King James Bible.
"We do not deny, nay we affirm and avow, that the very meanest translation of the Bible in English, set forth by men of our profession, containeth the word of God, nay, is the word of God: as the King’s speech which he uttered in Parliament, being translated into French, Dutch, Italian, and Latin, is still the King’s speech, though it not be interpreted by every translator with the like grace nor peradventure so fitly for phrase, nor so expressly for sense, everywhere".



Isaiah 40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Below are some compilations on some quotes about the Bible. Some of these are from famous people, scholars, theologians, authors, mornachs and so on.



Napoleon , Emperor of the French (1804-1814), 1769-1821
“The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.”

Pascal , French philosopher and mathematician, developed the modern theory of probability, 1623-1662
“I prefer to believe those writers who get their throats cut for what they write.”

Isaac Newton , English mathematician and scientist, 1642-1727
“We account the scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatsoever.”

Queen Elizabeth II
"To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this Treasure House, the BIBLE?"

Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
"That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ".

John D. Rockefeller – Worth = $ 663.4 billion (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937), the richest man the world has seen since King solomon, philanthropist, Bible study teacher.
"There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

Sir William Herschel (1738-1822)
"All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more & more strongly the truth contained in the Sacred Scriptures".

Sir Ambrose Fleming (1849-1948)
"There is abundant evidence that the Bible, though written by men, is not the product of the human mind. By countless multitudes it has always been revered as a communication to us from the Creator of the Universe".

Sir Richard Steele
"Even the style of the Scriptures is more than human"
The BIBLE is a telescope between man and GOD; it is the rending of a veil"

Voltaire, French infidel, died 1778
- said that within 100 years of his time, Christianity would be swept away from existence and pass into the obscurity of history.
-Yet 50 years after his death, the Geneva Bible Society used his house and printing press to produce stacks of Bibles.

Robert Dick Wilson, fluent in more than 45 languages and dialects Concluded after a lifetime study of the Old Testament:
“I may add that the result of my 45 years of study of the Bible has led me all the time to a firmer faith that in the Old Testament, we have a true historical account of the history of the Israelite people.”

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Leadership of Indian independence movement, philosophy of Satyagraha, Ahimsa or nonviolence, pacifism
“You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.”

The Cambridge History of the Bible
“No other book has known anything approaching this constant circulation.”

Sir Ambrose Flemming , British electrical engineer and inventor, 1849-1945
“We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science…but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau, French skeptic
“Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.”

Patrick Henry , American Revolutionary leader and orator, 1736-1799
“There is a book worth all other books which were ever printed.”

President Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States
“Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible.”
“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”

Cotvos
"We may seek GOD by our intellect, but we can only find Him with our heart"

President George Washington, First President of the United States
“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.”

Jean Paul
"Without GOD there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness"

Immanuel Kant, German idealist philosopher, 1724-1804
“I believe that the existence of the Bible is the greatest benefit to the human race. Any attempt to belittle it, I believe, is a crime against humanity.”

Robert E. Lee, Civil War General who fought for the Southern Confederacy:
“In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.”

Abraham Lincoln , 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865
“I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God’s word because it finds me where I am.”
“I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good of the Savior of the world is communicated to us through the Book.”
“Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. It is the best Book which God has given to man(When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)”
“But for this book we could not know right from wrong.”

Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, 1856-1924
“When you have read the Bible, you know it is the word of God, because it is the key to your heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.”

William Gladstone (1809-1898)
"I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these, eighty-seven were followers of the Bible. The Bible is stamped with a Specialty of Origin, and an immeasurable distance separates it from all competitors".

Martin Luther
"For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant".

Theodore Roosevelt , 26th President of the United States, 1858-1919
“A thorough understanding of the Bible is better than a college education. Almost every man who has by his lifework added to the sum of human achievement has based his lifework largely upon the teachings of the Bible".
"It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the BIBLE. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of
the BIBLE"
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society"

D.L. Moody
"Sin will keep you from this Book. This Book will keep you from sin"

George Washington Carver
"The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the BIBLE,
"In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths"

Jeffrey E. Ramey
"Who decides what is right and wrong in the world? Who has the authority to define morality for all of creation? It is not the courts, congress, the media, public opinion, the "politically correct" police, the "tolerance" brigade or even the church. The only answer has been, is and always will be Jesus Christ. You can find His opinion on a great variety of subjects in His best seller... The Bible".

Dr. Robert Milikan
"I consider an intimate knowledge of the BIBLE an indispensable quality of a well educated man"

John Flavel
"The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying"

Benjamin Franklin
"We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the LORD build the House, they labor in vain that build it', I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages"
"Here is my Creed. I believe in one GOD, the Creator of the Universe. That He Governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped"

William Ellery Channing
"The incongruity of the BIBLE with the age of its birth; its freedom from earthly mixtures; its original, unborrowed, solitary greatness; the suddenness with which it broke forth amidst the general gloom; these, to me, are strong indications of its Divine descent. I cannot reconcile them with a human origin"

Daniel Webster , American politician and noted orator, 1782-1852
“Education is useless without the Bible.”

Professor M. Montiero-Williams, former Boden prof. Of Sanskrit who spent 42 years studying Eastern books
Said comparing them with the Bible:
“Pile them, if you will, on the left side of your study table; but place your own Holy Bible on the right side–all by itself, all alone–and with a wide gap between them. For there is a gulf between it and the so-called sacred books of the East which severs the one from the other utterly hopelessly, and a forever…a veritable gulf which cannot be bridged over by any science of religious thought.”

John Wesley , British religious leader who founded Methodism, 1703-1791
“This book had to be written by one of three people: good men, bad men or God. It couldn’t have been written by good men because they said it was inspired by the revelation of God. Good men don’t lie and deceive. It couldn’t have been written by bad men because bad men would not write something that would condemn themselves. It leaves only one conclusion. It was given by divine inspiration of God.”

Werner Keller
“In view of the overwhelming mass of authentic and well- attested evidence now available, as I thought of the skeptical criticism which from the eighteenth century onward would fain have demolished the Bible altogether, there kept hammering in my brain this one sentence: The Bible is right after all.”

Hebert Hoover (1874-1964)
"There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals etc...he who seeks for guidance...may look inside its covers & find illumination".

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
"Only he who knows GOD is truly moral"

Robert Payne Smith
"The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. GOD's Word is like Himself, "The same yesterday, today and forever"

John Lea
From the Greatest Book in the World:
“It seems strange that the text of Shakespeare which has been in existence less than 208 years should be far more uncertain and corrupt than that of the N.T., now over 18 centuries old, during nearly fifteen of which it existed only in manuscript…with perhaps a dozen or twenty exceptions, the text of every verse in the N.T., may be said to be so far settled by general consent of scholars, that any dispute to its readings must relate rather to interpretation of the words than to any doubts respecting the words themselves.
But in every one of Shakespeare’s 37 plays there are probably a 100 headings still in dispute, a portion of which materially affect the meaning of the passages in which they occur.”

Bernard Ramm
“Jews preserved it as no other manuscript has ever been preserved. With their massora they kept tabs on every letter, syllable, word and paragraph. They had special classes of men within their culture whose sole duty was to preserve and transmit these documents with practically perfect fidelity–scribes, lawyers, massorettes.” “In regard to the New Testament, there are about 13,000 manuscripts, complete and incomplete, in Greek and other languages, that have survived from antiquity.” “A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.”
“No other book has been so chopped, knifed, sifted, scrutinized, and vilified. What book on philosophy or religion or psychology or belles lettres of classical or modern times has been subject to such a mass attack as the Bible? With such venom and skepticism? With such thoroughness and erudition? Upon every chapter, line and tenet?”
“ The Bible is still loved by millions, read by millions, and studied by millions.”

Horace Greeley, Editor and Politician
“It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible- reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”

Dr. Robert Milikan, former President of the California Inst. Of Tech. And Nobel Peace Prize winner
“I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.”

Thomas Carlyle
"The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long- forgotten home".

John Locke
"The BIBLE is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by GOD on the children of men -- It has GOD for its Author, Salvation for its end, and Truth without any mixture for its matter. -- It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting"

Thomas B. Macaulay
"Western literature has been more influenced by the BIBLE than any other book"

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

William Foxwell Albright, American Archaeologist and educator known for his excavations of biblical sites, 1891-1971
“The Bible towers in content above all earlier religious literature; and it towers just as impressively over all subsequent literature in the direct simplicity of its message and the catholicity of its appeal to men of all lands and times.”

Prof. Edward Meyer, University of Berlin, one of the greatest living authorities on ancient history
Concerning the Bible said:
“…There is no ground at all for refusing to accept these oldest traditions as historically trustworthy in all essentials, and in their chronological ordering of history.”

Francis Bacon , English statesman and writer, 1597 Called the Bible:
“The book of God’s word.”

Malcolm Muggeridge
"There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory"

Nachmanides
"This was the purpose of the whole creation, that man should recognize and know Him and give praise to His Name"

John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
"The first & almost only book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. I speak as a man of the World. So great is my veneration for the Bible, that the earlier my children begin to read it, the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country & respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year".

Mark Twain
“It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it’s the parts that I do understand.”

Alexander Cruden
"All other Books are of little importance in comparison with the Holy Scriptures"

Dwight Lyman Moody
“Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.”
“The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.”

Malcolm Muggeridge , British broadcaster, 1903-1990
“People say that the Bible is a boring book…but they don’t say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.”

Victor Hugo , French writer, 1802-1885
“England has two books; the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England.”

Salmon P. Chase
"There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would try the Book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long, serious and profound study and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the BIBLE is a supernatural Book, that it has come from GOD, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings"

Rufus Choate
"No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the BIBLE"

Goethe , German writer and scientist, 1749-1832
“I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.”

Franklin Rooselvelt (1882-1945)
The influence of the Bible in the early days of the Republic is plainly revealed in the writing & thinking of the men who made the nation possible...They found in the Scriptures that which shaped their course & determined their cause.

James W. Alexander
"The study of GOD's W-rd, for the purpose of discovering GOD's will, is the secret discipline which has formed the greatest characters"

Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
To the influence of the Book we are indebted for the progress made in civilisation, & to this we must look as our guide in the future. The Bible is the sheet-anchor of our liberties.

Sir Frederic Kenyon, Director and principal librarian of the British museum, foremost expert on ancient manuscripts:
“The interval between the dates of original composition (of the N.T.) and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact negligible and the foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed; both the authenticity and the general integrity of the books of the N.T. may be regarded as firmly established.”

Jim McCotter
“All Scripture is God-breathed and He doesn’t waste His breath.”

Søren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”

Albert Baird Cummins
"The empire of Caesar is gone; the legions of Rome are smouldering in the dust; the avalanches of Napoleon hurled upon Europe have melted away, the prince of the pharoahs is fallen; the pyramids they raised to be their tombs are sinking every day in the desert sands; Tyre is a rock for bleaching fisherman's nets; Sidon has scarcely left a wreck behind; but the WORD OF GOD still survives: All things that threatened to extinguish it have only aided it; and it proves every day how transient is the noblest monument that men can build, how enduring is the least Word that GOD has spoken"

J. I. Packer
"One of the many divine qualities of the BIBLE is this: that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and censorious"

Kenyon A. Palmer
"GOD's Road Map -- The BIBLE"

Below are some compilations on some quotes about the Bible. Some of these are from famous people, scholars, theologians, authors, mornachs and so on.



Napoleon , Emperor of the French (1804-1814), 1769-1821
“The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.”

Pascal , French philosopher and mathematician, developed the modern theory of probability, 1623-1662
“I prefer to believe those writers who get their throats cut for what they write.”

Isaac Newton , English mathematician and scientist, 1642-1727
“We account the scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatsoever.”

Queen Elizabeth II
"To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this Treasure House, the BIBLE?"

Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
"That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ".

John D. Rockefeller – Worth = $ 663.4 billion (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937), the richest man the world has seen since King solomon, philanthropist, Bible study teacher.
"There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

Sir William Herschel (1738-1822)
"All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more & more strongly the truth contained in the Sacred Scriptures".

Sir Ambrose Fleming (1849-1948)
"There is abundant evidence that the Bible, though written by men, is not the product of the human mind. By countless multitudes it has always been revered as a communication to us from the Creator of the Universe".

Sir Richard Steele
"Even the style of the Scriptures is more than human"
The BIBLE is a telescope between man and GOD; it is the rending of a veil"

Voltaire, French infidel, died 1778
- said that within 100 years of his time, Christianity would be swept away from existence and pass into the obscurity of history.
-Yet 50 years after his death, the Geneva Bible Society used his house and printing press to produce stacks of Bibles.

Robert Dick Wilson, fluent in more than 45 languages and dialects Concluded after a lifetime study of the Old Testament:
“I may add that the result of my 45 years of study of the Bible has led me all the time to a firmer faith that in the Old Testament, we have a true historical account of the history of the Israelite people.”

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Leadership of Indian independence movement, philosophy of Satyagraha, Ahimsa or nonviolence, pacifism
“You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.”

The Cambridge History of the Bible
“No other book has known anything approaching this constant circulation.”

Sir Ambrose Flemming , British electrical engineer and inventor, 1849-1945
“We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science…but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau, French skeptic
“Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.”

Patrick Henry , American Revolutionary leader and orator, 1736-1799
“There is a book worth all other books which were ever printed.”

President Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States
“Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible.”
“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”

Cotvos
"We may seek GOD by our intellect, but we can only find Him with our heart"

President George Washington, First President of the United States
“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.”

Jean Paul
"Without GOD there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness"

Immanuel Kant, German idealist philosopher, 1724-1804
“I believe that the existence of the Bible is the greatest benefit to the human race. Any attempt to belittle it, I believe, is a crime against humanity.”

Robert E. Lee, Civil War General who fought for the Southern Confederacy:
“In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.”

Abraham Lincoln , 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865
“I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God’s word because it finds me where I am.”
“I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good of the Savior of the world is communicated to us through the Book.”
“Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. It is the best Book which God has given to man(When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)”
“But for this book we could not know right from wrong.”

Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, 1856-1924
“When you have read the Bible, you know it is the word of God, because it is the key to your heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.”

William Gladstone (1809-1898)
"I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these, eighty-seven were followers of the Bible. The Bible is stamped with a Specialty of Origin, and an immeasurable distance separates it from all competitors".

Martin Luther
"For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant".

Theodore Roosevelt , 26th President of the United States, 1858-1919
“A thorough understanding of the Bible is better than a college education. Almost every man who has by his lifework added to the sum of human achievement has based his lifework largely upon the teachings of the Bible".
"It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the BIBLE. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of
the BIBLE"
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society"

D.L. Moody
"Sin will keep you from this Book. This Book will keep you from sin"

George Washington Carver
"The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the BIBLE,
"In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths"

Jeffrey E. Ramey
"Who decides what is right and wrong in the world? Who has the authority to define morality for all of creation? It is not the courts, congress, the media, public opinion, the "politically correct" police, the "tolerance" brigade or even the church. The only answer has been, is and always will be Jesus Christ. You can find His opinion on a great variety of subjects in His best seller... The Bible".

Dr. Robert Milikan
"I consider an intimate knowledge of the BIBLE an indispensable quality of a well educated man"

John Flavel
"The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying"

Benjamin Franklin
"We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the LORD build the House, they labor in vain that build it', I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages"
"Here is my Creed. I believe in one GOD, the Creator of the Universe. That He Governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped"

William Ellery Channing
"The incongruity of the BIBLE with the age of its birth; its freedom from earthly mixtures; its original, unborrowed, solitary greatness; the suddenness with which it broke forth amidst the general gloom; these, to me, are strong indications of its Divine descent. I cannot reconcile them with a human origin"

Daniel Webster , American politician and noted orator, 1782-1852
“Education is useless without the Bible.”

Professor M. Montiero-Williams, former Boden prof. Of Sanskrit who spent 42 years studying Eastern books
Said comparing them with the Bible:
“Pile them, if you will, on the left side of your study table; but place your own Holy Bible on the right side–all by itself, all alone–and with a wide gap between them. For there is a gulf between it and the so-called sacred books of the East which severs the one from the other utterly hopelessly, and a forever…a veritable gulf which cannot be bridged over by any science of religious thought.”

John Wesley , British religious leader who founded Methodism, 1703-1791
“This book had to be written by one of three people: good men, bad men or God. It couldn’t have been written by good men because they said it was inspired by the revelation of God. Good men don’t lie and deceive. It couldn’t have been written by bad men because bad men would not write something that would condemn themselves. It leaves only one conclusion. It was given by divine inspiration of God.”

Werner Keller
“In view of the overwhelming mass of authentic and well- attested evidence now available, as I thought of the skeptical criticism which from the eighteenth century onward would fain have demolished the Bible altogether, there kept hammering in my brain this one sentence: The Bible is right after all.”

Hebert Hoover (1874-1964)
"There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals etc...he who seeks for guidance...may look inside its covers & find illumination".

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
"Only he who knows GOD is truly moral"

Robert Payne Smith
"The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. GOD's Word is like Himself, "The same yesterday, today and forever"

John Lea
From the Greatest Book in the World:
“It seems strange that the text of Shakespeare which has been in existence less than 208 years should be far more uncertain and corrupt than that of the N.T., now over 18 centuries old, during nearly fifteen of which it existed only in manuscript…with perhaps a dozen or twenty exceptions, the text of every verse in the N.T., may be said to be so far settled by general consent of scholars, that any dispute to its readings must relate rather to interpretation of the words than to any doubts respecting the words themselves.
But in every one of Shakespeare’s 37 plays there are probably a 100 headings still in dispute, a portion of which materially affect the meaning of the passages in which they occur.”

Bernard Ramm
“Jews preserved it as no other manuscript has ever been preserved. With their massora they kept tabs on every letter, syllable, word and paragraph. They had special classes of men within their culture whose sole duty was to preserve and transmit these documents with practically perfect fidelity–scribes, lawyers, massorettes.” “In regard to the New Testament, there are about 13,000 manuscripts, complete and incomplete, in Greek and other languages, that have survived from antiquity.” “A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.”
“No other book has been so chopped, knifed, sifted, scrutinized, and vilified. What book on philosophy or religion or psychology or belles lettres of classical or modern times has been subject to such a mass attack as the Bible? With such venom and skepticism? With such thoroughness and erudition? Upon every chapter, line and tenet?”
“ The Bible is still loved by millions, read by millions, and studied by millions.”

Horace Greeley, Editor and Politician
“It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible- reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”

Dr. Robert Milikan, former President of the California Inst. Of Tech. And Nobel Peace Prize winner
“I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.”

William Ellery Channing
"The incongruity of the BIBLE with the age of its birth; its freedom from earthly mixtures; its original, unborrowed, solitary greatness; the suddenness with which it broke forth amidst the general gloom; these, to me, are strong indications of its Divine descent. I cannot reconcile them with a human origin"

Daniel Webster , American politician and noted orator, 1782-1852
“Education is useless without the Bible.”

Professor M. Montiero-Williams, former Boden prof. Of Sanskrit who spent 42 years studying Eastern books
Said comparing them with the Bible:
“Pile them, if you will, on the left side of your study table; but place your own Holy Bible on the right side–all by itself, all alone–and with a wide gap between them. For there is a gulf between it and the so-called sacred books of the East which severs the one from the other utterly hopelessly, and a forever…a veritable gulf which cannot be bridged over by any science of religious thought.”

John Wesley , British religious leader who founded Methodism, 1703-1791
“This book had to be written by one of three people: good men, bad men or God. It couldn’t have been written by good men because they said it was inspired by the revelation of God. Good men don’t lie and deceive. It couldn’t have been written by bad men because bad men would not write something that would condemn themselves. It leaves only one conclusion. It was given by divine inspiration of God.”

Werner Keller
“In view of the overwhelming mass of authentic and well- attested evidence now available, as I thought of the skeptical criticism which from the eighteenth century onward would fain have demolished the Bible altogether, there kept hammering in my brain this one sentence: The Bible is right after all.”

Hebert Hoover (1874-1964)
"There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals etc...he who seeks for guidance...may look inside its covers & find illumination".

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
"Only he who knows GOD is truly moral"

Robert Payne Smith
"The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. GOD's Word is like Himself, "The same yesterday, today and forever"

John Lea
From the Greatest Book in the World:
“It seems strange that the text of Shakespeare which has been in existence less than 208 years should be far more uncertain and corrupt than that of the N.T., now over 18 centuries old, during nearly fifteen of which it existed only in manuscript…with perhaps a dozen or twenty exceptions, the text of every verse in the N.T., may be said to be so far settled by general consent of scholars, that any dispute to its readings must relate rather to interpretation of the words than to any doubts respecting the words themselves.
But in every one of Shakespeare’s 37 plays there are probably a 100 headings still in dispute, a portion of which materially affect the meaning of the passages in which they occur.”

Bernard Ramm
“Jews preserved it as no other manuscript has ever been preserved. With their massora they kept tabs on every letter, syllable, word and paragraph. They had special classes of men within their culture whose sole duty was to preserve and transmit these documents with practically perfect fidelity–scribes, lawyers, massorettes.” “In regard to the New Testament, there are about 13,000 manuscripts, complete and incomplete, in Greek and other languages, that have survived from antiquity.” “A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.”
“No other book has been so chopped, knifed, sifted, scrutinized, and vilified. What book on philosophy or religion or psychology or belles lettres of classical or modern times has been subject to such a mass attack as the Bible? With such venom and skepticism? With such thoroughness and erudition? Upon every chapter, line and tenet?”
“ The Bible is still loved by millions, read by millions, and studied by millions.”

Horace Greeley, Editor and Politician
“It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible- reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”

Dr. Robert Milikan, former President of the California Inst. Of Tech. And Nobel Peace Prize winner
“I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.”

Thomas Carlyle
"The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long- forgotten home".

John Locke
"The BIBLE is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by GOD on the children of men -- It has GOD for its Author, Salvation for its end, and Truth without any mixture for its matter. -- It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting"

Thomas B. Macaulay
"Western literature has been more influenced by the BIBLE than any other book"

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

William Foxwell Albright, American Archaeologist and educator known for his excavations of biblical sites, 1891-1971
“The Bible towers in content above all earlier religious literature; and it towers just as impressively over all subsequent literature in the direct simplicity of its message and the catholicity of its appeal to men of all lands and times.”

Prof. Edward Meyer, University of Berlin, one of the greatest living authorities on ancient history
Concerning the Bible said:
“…There is no ground at all for refusing to accept these oldest traditions as historically trustworthy in all essentials, and in their chronological ordering of history.”

Francis Bacon , English statesman and writer, 1597 Called the Bible:
“The book of God’s word.”

Malcolm Muggeridge
"There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory"

Nachmanides
"This was the purpose of the whole creation, that man should recognize and know Him and give praise to His Name"

John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
"The first & almost only book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. I speak as a man of the World. So great is my veneration for the Bible, that the earlier my children begin to read it, the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country & respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year".

Mark Twain
“It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it’s the parts that I do understand.”

Alexander Cruden
"All other Books are of little importance in comparison with the Holy Scriptures"

Dwight Lyman Moody
“Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.”
“The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.”

Malcolm Muggeridge , British broadcaster, 1903-1990
“People say that the Bible is a boring book…but they don’t say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.”

Victor Hugo , French writer, 1802-1885
“England has two books; the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England.”

Salmon P. Chase
"There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would try the Book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long, serious and profound study and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the BIBLE is a supernatural Book, that it has come from GOD, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings"

Rufus Choate
"No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the BIBLE"

Goethe , German writer and scientist, 1749-1832
“I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.”

Franklin Rooselvelt (1882-1945)
The influence of the Bible in the early days of the Republic is plainly revealed in the writing & thinking of the men who made the nation possible...They found in the Scriptures that which shaped their course & determined their cause.

James W. Alexander
"The study of GOD's W-rd, for the purpose of discovering GOD's will, is the secret discipline which has formed the greatest characters"

Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
To the influence of the Book we are indebted for the progress made in civilisation, & to this we must look as our guide in the future. The Bible is the sheet-anchor of our liberties.

Sir Frederic Kenyon, Director and principal librarian of the British museum, foremost expert on ancient manuscripts:
“The interval between the dates of original composition (of the N.T.) and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact negligible and the foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed; both the authenticity and the general integrity of the books of the N.T. may be regarded as firmly established.”

Jim McCotter
“All Scripture is God-breathed and He doesn’t waste His breath.”

Søren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”

Below are some compilations on some quotes about the Bible. Some of these are from famous people, scholars, theologians, authors, mornachs and so on.



Napoleon , Emperor of the French (1804-1814), 1769-1821
“The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.”

Pascal , French philosopher and mathematician, developed the modern theory of probability, 1623-1662
“I prefer to believe those writers who get their throats cut for what they write.”

Isaac Newton , English mathematician and scientist, 1642-1727
“We account the scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatsoever.”

Queen Elizabeth II
"To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this Treasure House, the BIBLE?"

Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
"That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ".

John D. Rockefeller – Worth = $ 663.4 billion (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937), the richest man the world has seen since King solomon, philanthropist, Bible study teacher.
"There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

Sir William Herschel (1738-1822)
"All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more & more strongly the truth contained in the Sacred Scriptures".

Sir Ambrose Fleming (1849-1948)
"There is abundant evidence that the Bible, though written by men, is not the product of the human mind. By countless multitudes it has always been revered as a communication to us from the Creator of the Universe".

Sir Richard Steele
"Even the style of the Scriptures is more than human"
The BIBLE is a telescope between man and GOD; it is the rending of a veil"

Voltaire, French infidel, died 1778
- said that within 100 years of his time, Christianity would be swept away from existence and pass into the obscurity of history.
-Yet 50 years after his death, the Geneva Bible Society used his house and printing press to produce stacks of Bibles.

Robert Dick Wilson, fluent in more than 45 languages and dialects Concluded after a lifetime study of the Old Testament:
“I may add that the result of my 45 years of study of the Bible has led me all the time to a firmer faith that in the Old Testament, we have a true historical account of the history of the Israelite people.”

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Leadership of Indian independence movement, philosophy of Satyagraha, Ahimsa or nonviolence, pacifism
“You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.”

The Cambridge History of the Bible
“No other book has known anything approaching this constant circulation.”

Sir Ambrose Flemming , British electrical engineer and inventor, 1849-1945
“We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science…but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau, French skeptic
“Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.”

Patrick Henry , American Revolutionary leader and orator, 1736-1799
“There is a book worth all other books which were ever printed.”

President Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States
“Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible.”
“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”

Cotvos
"We may seek GOD by our intellect, but we can only find Him with our heart"

President George Washington, First President of the United States
“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.”

Jean Paul
"Without GOD there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness"

Immanuel Kant, German idealist philosopher, 1724-1804
“I believe that the existence of the Bible is the greatest benefit to the human race. Any attempt to belittle it, I believe, is a crime against humanity.”

Robert E. Lee, Civil War General who fought for the Southern Confederacy:
“In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.”

Abraham Lincoln , 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865
“I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God’s word because it finds me where I am.”
“I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good of the Savior of the world is communicated to us through the Book.”
“Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. It is the best Book which God has given to man(When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)”
“But for this book we could not know right from wrong.”

Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, 1856-1924
“When you have read the Bible, you know it is the word of God, because it is the key to your heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.”

William Gladstone (1809-1898)
"I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these, eighty-seven were followers of the Bible. The Bible is stamped with a Specialty of Origin, and an immeasurable distance separates it from all competitors".

Martin Luther
"For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant".

Theodore Roosevelt , 26th President of the United States, 1858-1919
“A thorough understanding of the Bible is better than a college education. Almost every man who has by his lifework added to the sum of human achievement has based his lifework largely upon the teachings of the Bible".
"It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the BIBLE. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of
the BIBLE"
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society"

D.L. Moody
"Sin will keep you from this Book. This Book will keep you from sin"

George Washington Carver
"The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the BIBLE,
"In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths"

Jeffrey E. Ramey
"Who decides what is right and wrong in the world? Who has the authority to define morality for all of creation? It is not the courts, congress, the media, public opinion, the "politically correct" police, the "tolerance" brigade or even the church. The only answer has been, is and always will be Jesus Christ. You can find His opinion on a great variety of subjects in His best seller... The Bible".

Dr. Robert Milikan
"I consider an intimate knowledge of the BIBLE an indispensable quality of a well educated man"

John Flavel
"The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying"

Benjamin Franklin
"We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the LORD build the House, they labor in vain that build it', I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages"
"Here is my Creed. I believe in one GOD, the Creator of the Universe. That He Governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped"

Blossom023:
so good hbu

I bless God.

Blossom023:
Thank you so much.

you are welcome, how was church service today?.

Esdb3:
Most of them are not atheists but hateists.

Some have suffered something tragic that they think God should have averted even though they never had a relationship with him.

Winner01 wetin na? Why you come steal my ftc.

very true, no vex biko.

jiggaz:
I really have to say dis ooo, since i started coming to the Religious section of Nairaland, i have been seeing some strange threads by people claiming they don't believe God exists & some even blaspheming against God!!! ... i was stunned!!!! To be honest!! I have never met an Atheist in real life though, most people i have met that were not Christians were either Muslims, Pagans or Hindu etc... but never an Atheist though...

So i was really stunned going through some Atheist posts here on Nairaland!!!! I was like wetin be dis? See blasphemy oo!!!! I was shocked cos i haven't really seen people talk bad about God like this... So i think, dis is a welcome to the religious section.....

Like you said they talk bad about God....they know he exists but hate him.

Blossom023:
Yasss.. Pray for me that I don't go back to the world, cos for every level there is a new devil...,the things I did in the past are fighting w me.

I will, you need to know that even after being born again, you are still subject to the flesh....the flesh has to be subdued, You need to feed the spirit so it can outgrow the flesh. Also know that in;
1 Corinthians 10:13 - There hath no temptation taken you but
such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not
suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with
the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be
able to bear [it].

if you keep feeding the flesh you'll find out that you are going back to the things you repented from...........(Galatians 6:8
For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap
corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the
Spirit reap eternal life).. apostle paul talks about the cricifixion of the flesh.

Galatians 5:17
For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit
against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so
that you may not do the things that you please.

The Flesh is subject to a law, that is why sin seems natural...it is obeying a natural law, we were naturally born into sin. the bible calls that law the law of sin and death.

But once you have Christ, you can subdue the sinful nature and it has to be willfully. so that your body can adapt to the new law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus....Please pray and read the book of Romans chapter 6,7,8,9....i belive God will show you something.

Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the
flesh in regard to its lusts.
bless you.

I bless God for your life sister Blossom023.....I was just trying to rationalize with them thats why i strictly left out spiritual tthings.

But it seems most of them are not as bright as i thought. I mean if you cant prove the existence of something you can see (such as yourself), how much more something you cannot see. Especially considering the fact that our source for knowledge is limited to our senses.
I have concluded that most of them know that God exists but hope that he dosent exist.

malvisguy212:
the op was not talking about the existence of God,he say, evidence that the bible is real.

Leave the menehseh guy, he must have typed that unknowingly....He hates God, not that he disproves his existence...it is written all over his comments

i recommed this great song for y'all...My everything-owl city.


www.nairaland.com/2474302/most-committed-atheists-once-chtistians

haffaze777:
Romans 3:7 "If the truth of God has
been spread by my lie, then why am I
judged a sinner." no lie again o,1 lie peren I wont waste my again to reply u

how old are you hafeez,

"If i rob people to make money, why then should the government arrest me?"........
does this simple phrase means i rob people....

chai, you people shaa....biko make u read the whole chapter again and get what he was teaching.

haffaze777:
but Paul encourage u to spread d gospel by lie now,and d last time I check Jesus wasn't d founder of Christian faith but paul

ehn ehn, oya quote from the sriptures where he said it na..
Jesus came to show us the way, and so we are called christ-ians (people like christ)..

haffaze777:
Dats just a stage name as rapper bro

keep deceiving yourself.

haffaze777:
point of correction haffaze pronounced half face not hafeez

God gave you a full face, dont accept the deceit from the devil that you are half-faced.

haffaze777:
d same thing apostle Paul gain from his lie now

im sorry taqqiya or deceit or whatever was never employed in the Bible in the process of spreading the gospel of truth. You wont find it in the bible....Even Jesus emphasised free-will when he said "whosoever belives in me"...please true christians follow the Bible, deceit is of the devil.