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It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments. Up to then, I'd thought the main job to do is help the meek inherit the Earth. And I still, that's a job that's got to be done. But I realized if we didn't do something soon, what the meek would inherit would be a pretty poisonous place to live.
Oct 1, 2025
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
When you pay attention to the Quran, you discover that it can only be from Allah. It becomes clearer and clearer to you that it cannot be from a human being. But many people don't perceive the Quran this way because Allah doesn't open its doors to people who do not pay attention.
I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.
Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 [gibberish]. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You".
A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!
Three worldly things have been made dear to me: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and reading the Qur'an.
Amongst the friends of Allah (Awliya), the Qur'an is considered as a love letter from Allah, which inevitably is read continuously to remind them of their Beloved.
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
I think it's the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so it's coming out of the novelists who are really creating these wonderful female characters that we want to see on the big screen.
Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.
It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.
Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.
The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.
The Bible definitely is infallible, how else could it survive so many years of bad preaching?
Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.
The Bible isn't a storybook with many heroes. No, there's only one hero in Scripture: the Son, the Lamb, the Savior, the King, the Redeemer - Jesus.
This book (the Bible) is not hard to understand. It's just hard to swallow.
The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”
The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.
Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.
For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other religious history – perhaps like no other book in any religious history- and still, it stands.
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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