“I would be pretty near the last one in the world to do anything to take it away. If anybody finds anything in this life that brings them consolation and health and happiness I think they ought to have it.”
-Clarence Darrow, [commenting on The Holy Bible]

“I wish I could believe in the Bible, like you people—I just can’t. And I wish I could get hope out of it like you do. I’ve got no hope.”
-Clarence Darrow, [commenting on The Holy Bible]

One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good, nobody can touch Him.
-John W. Gardner

It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons.
-C.S. Lewis, Letters