Apocrypha Quotes

“Be this as it may, they decided by vote which of the books out of the collection they had made, should be the WORD OF GOD, and which should not. They rejected several; they voted others to be doubtful, such as the books called the Apocrypha; and those books which had a majority of votes, were voted to be the word of God. Had they voted otherwise, all the people since calling themselves Christians had believed otherwise; for the belief of the one comes from the vote of the other.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

“Jesus said: Wretched is the body which depends upon another body, and wretched is the soul which depends upon their being together.”
― Jesus Christ

“For wisdom is like her name; she is not readily perceived by many.”
― Ben Sira (6:22)