Topic(s): Wisdom

• Benjamin Franklin: “Young man, my advice to you is that you cultivate an acquaintance with and firm belief in the Holy Scriptures, for this is your certain interest. I think Christ’s system of morals and religion, as He left them with us, is the best the world ever saw or is likely to see.”

• Thomas Jefferson: “I have said and always will say that the studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.”

• Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Jesus is the most perfect of all men that have yet appeared.”

• Charles Dickens in his will: “I commit my soul to the mercy of God, through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide themselves by the teachings of the New Testament.”

• Shakespeare in his will: “I commend my soul into the hands of God, my Creator, hoping and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting.”