Quote#World
It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary…
Quote byThomas Erskine · 1788–1870
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 32..
English (original)
It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral atmosphere quite different from that which we breathe in the world, and in the world's literature.
— Thomas Erskine
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