Past Presidents and Their Attitudes of the Scriptures
May our incoming President have the kind of regard for the Bible as the Presidents in the past have had.
“Above all, the pure and benign light of Revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind, and increased the blessings of society.”
“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible”
John Adams (1797-1801) – Our 2nd President
“I have made it a practice every year for several years to read through the Bible.”
John Quincy Adams (1825-29) – Our 6th President
“The first and almost the only book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. I speak as a man of the world . . . and I say to you, ‘Search the Scriptures.’”
“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 and respectable members of society…”
Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865) – Our 16th President
“I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this book upon 
reason that you can and the balance by faith, and you will live and die a better man.”
“I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book. But for it we could not know right from wrong”
“It is the duty of nations as well as men to recognize the truth announced in Holy Scripture and proven by all of history that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”
Ulysses S. Grant (1869-77) – 18th President
“Hold fast to the Bible as the anchor of your liberty; write its precepts in your hearts and practice them in your lives.”
Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) – 23rd President
“If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?”
William McKinley (1897-1901) 25th President
“The more profoundly we study this Book and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09) – 26th President
“Almost every man who by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race
is proud, of which our people are proud, almost every such man has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the Bible.”
“If a man is not familiar with the Bible, he has suffered the loss which he had better make all possible haste to correct.”
Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) – 30th President
“The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.”
Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) – 40th President
“Inside the Bible’s pages lie all the answers to all of the problems man has ever known…. It is my firm belief that the enduring values presented in its pages have a great meaning for each of us and for our nation. The Bible can touch our hearts, order our minds, and refresh our souls.
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord” (Psalm 32:12).
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Devotional, Michael Carter
on October 16th, 2008
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