Upon being given a Bible, President Abraham Lincoln replied, "In regard to this Great book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.

He (Lincoln) saw how intellectually and spiritually impoverished a person would be if he was limited to his own personal resources. The Bible, he recognized, vastly enlarged the area of experience on which an individual might depend.

Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man.