The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

Power is my mistress

Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four

For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical.

It (The Bible) has lost power in the proportion that man has gained knowledge

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.