The Book of books

Bible belonging to Elvis Presley with handwritten notes by him.
Auctioned on the 35th anniversary of his death.

 If you struggle reading the Bible lately, and the words lost their meaning because you read them so many times, and "you know what that means" and so on, try this: Pray and ask Jesus to take the words straight to your inner self, your heart of hearts, without allowing them to get stuck in the interpretarions and jugdgements of your mind. Do not expect instant results but you will see that pretty soon life and joy come back to you. What the Word does to you is God's business, not yours, so let yourself go. Also remember that the primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God. 

One of the notes written by Elvis in his in Bible:
To Judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like
 judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

 Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself, but because it contradicts them. —Attributed to Charles Dickens

The immortal Book has survived three great dangers: (1) The negligence of its friends, (2) the warfare of its enemies, (3) and the false systems built upon it.—Isaac Taylor

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.—Helen Keller
 
Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.―D. L. Moody


I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the Bible.—D. L. Moody

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.—Attributed to George Washington

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible. I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary. No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible, and no uneducated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.—Theodore Roosevelt

Other books were given for our information. The Bible was given for our transformation. Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself, but because it contradicts them. The New Testament is the greatest Book the world has ever known or ever will know.—Attributed to Charles Dickens

I have always said, I always say, that the studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.—Attributed to Thomas Jefferson

The Bible is a Book in comparison with which all others in my eyes are of minor importance; and in all my perplexities and distresses has never failed to give me light and strength.—Robert E. Lee

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but the gospel of Jesus Christ.—Author unknown

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.—Sir Isaac Newton

The English Bible has been a greater influence in the course of English literature than all other forces put together. It is impossible to read standard authors intelligently without knowing something about the Bible, for they all assume familiarity with it on the point of their readers… To any young man or woman, eaten with ambition to become a writer, I shall advise first of all, KNOW THE BIBLE.—William Lyon Phelps, former Prof. of English Literature at Yale University

We are indebted to the Book of books for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering to its precepts.—Herbert Hoover

That Book, sir, is the Rock on which our republic stands.—Attributed to Andrew Jackson

Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the word of God before I go to bed.—Gen. Douglas MacArthur

I have made a covenant with my God that He send me neither visions, dreams, nor even angels. I am well satisfied with the gift of the Holy Scriptures, which give me abundant instruction and all that I need to know both for this life and for the life which is to come.—Martin Luther

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books—especially the Bible—build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.—John Wooden

The Bible—banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it, dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it. Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it more powerful than their weapons. Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints.—Charles Colson

The real influence of the Bible cannot be measured: It is reckoned only in terms of hearts that have been lifted up, decisions that have been changed, the men and women who, in response to its impervious demands, have done justice and loved kindness and walked humbly with God.—J. Carter Swain

A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.―Charles H. Spurgeon

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.—Ronald Reagan

The Bible is no mere book, but it’s a living creature with a power that conquers all who oppose it.—Napoleon

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.—Jack Hayford