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!
Henry Ward Beecher (1627-1691) Minister, abolitionist
The ultimate slight perpetrated against the Creator is to not listen when he speaks, to ignore his words, or to place less than the appropriate importance upon the study of them. The Bible is God speaking to us. When and wherever the Scriptures have been easily accessed as in most places in the world today, it will not be an excusable offense, when we stand before the judgment seat of Christ, not to have read and studied them.
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 to their country and respectable members of society.
J. Q. Adams (1767-1848) 6th President of the United States
When Darwin visited Terra Del Fuego in 1833, he wrote: “The Fugians are in a more miserable state of barbarism than I ever expected to see any human being.” He thought it would be impossible to civilize them. Protestant Christians took the Bible there, taught it, and lived its precepts. Darwin visited it again in 1869. His astonishment was great to find those people, whose condition he thought hopeless, transformed into Christian men and women. He wrote to the London Missionary Society, enclosing twenty-five pounds for its work, and said: “I shall feel proud if your Committee shall think fit to elect me an honorary member of your Society. I certainly should have predicted that not all the missionaries in the world could have done what has been done. It is wonderful, and it shames me, as I always prophesied failure.” Gladly Mr. Darwin acknowledged the proof of the power of the Bible to transform and elevate mankind.
Scientific Faith: Howard Agnew Johnston. The Winona Publishing Company
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
Horace Greeley (1811 – 1872) American newspaper editor and publisher
It seems there are good reasons to do so. I know of no reason not to.