We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.
04185 – Anybody Reading Us?
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03887 – Books Help Us Understand Life
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us...
03047 – Life is…
Life is no holiday game, nor a clever book, nor a school of instruction, nor a valley of tears, but it is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principles of evil hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way must be disputed.
02921 – The Story of Christianity
The story of Christianity didn't take shape behind pulpits or on altars or in books. No, the story of Christianity takes shape around tables, as people face one another as equals, telling stories, sharing memories, enjoying food with one another. from Table to Table
02837 – Choose Wisely!
You are the books you read, the movies you watch, the music you listen to, the people you spend time with, the conversations you engage in. Choose wisely what you feed your mind.
02836 – Picking Books to Read
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
02655 – Get Lost in a Good Book!
I find that one really sees more of the country with a book than without: for you are always forced to look up every now and then and the scene into which you have blundered without knowing it comes upon you like something in a dream. from All My Road Before Me
02546 – Measuring Prosperity of Nations
We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books.
02452 – What Pain Can Do
Pain has made me a better theologian than any book I've ever read.
02038 – Good Can Come from Evil
To show you … how out of evil there can come good, in those five years I read every book in the black school library. I read all the books I could get from the white school library. I memorized James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen and Langston...