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Biblical Quotations for All Occasions : From the World's Greatest Source, Over 2,000 Timeless Quotes to Enrich Your Message

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I got this book for Christmas and have enjoyed just browsing through it, though I expect it to be useful as a reference book as well. I think the author (or maybe the publisher) did a neat job of updating the King James Version so that the quotes sound poetic but are still easy to understand. (They did away with all the words like 'thee' and 'thou' and so on.) I have recommended this to people in my church because I think its topical arrangement makes it easy to find what you're looking for in practically any subject area.

...it still fills a terrific void. When writing thank you notes or other letters marking special occasions, I go looking for that great bible verse to sum it all up. This means I will open up my bible's concordenance and hunt verse by verse for something to grab my eye. Usually, I find the searching to be quite enjoyable and relaxing, but if time is an issue, it can frustrate the experience.

Until now. This book meets my need. With these great bible verses all catagorized, all one has to do is hit the index and look up the occasion. Congratulating someone on a new job or promotion? There are over 10 verses to choose from. What about the usual anniversary, birthday, wedding, etc events? There are many, many verses here that one is bound to be appropriate.

This book will not stop me from bible-hunting; that is an exercise I enjoy too much to give up. However, this book is a great catalogue and I am using it frequently.

This book is packed with quotes! The only downside is the author re-wrote them to modernize them, so they are in neither King James version nor New International version nor any other text. I look up a lot of them to see their original wording, which is a good way to learn the quotes anyway. Great way to learn the Bible and use it in everyday life.

This has been useful to me for magazine writing. I also do some speaking at my women's group, and this is a great source of quotes. It is organized by topics, so it makes it easy to locate just the right quote for what you need. One interesting difference between this and other quotation books is that the author has used the King James Version of the Bible but has carefully modernized some of the difficult "antique" words from the old version. I think that helps a lot, because in places the King James could be hard to understand.

This book is arranged by topic, which makes it great for quick reference. If you want a quote on "marriage" or "children" or "success" or just about anything, it is easy to find. One thing I didn't like about it (at first) is that it appeared to be "sort of" like the King James Version, but not quite. In fact, it appears the editor has used the KJV but modernized it slightly--that is, he left the quotes as close as possible to the KJV, but changed a word here and there to make the meaning clear. I think that was a wise choice, as sometimes the KJV is just not clear enough. Anyway, I do use this book often and I have a feeling I may eventually wear the cover out from frequent use.

I found this to be a very useful desk reference book, also interesting just for leafing through when I have some down time at my job. I had not realized before that so many familiar quotes and phrases come from the Bible. The book is organized by topics in alphabetical order, making it easy to look things up. There is also a very handy index. It is not in hardback but has that kind of 'sturdy paperback' binding, so should hold up well after a lot of use.