I have put a New Testament among your books … because it is the best book that ever was, or will be, known in the world; and because it teaches you the best lessons by which any human creature, who tries to be truthful and faithful to duty, can possibly be guided.
Charles Dickens, when his youngest child was about to leave England for Australia
One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament; the proximity of so much impurity almost compels this. … I have searched it vainly for even a single congenial trait … everything in it is cowardice and self-deception.
Friedrich Nietzsche