Books Quotes - Page 72

The open door is never behind you; the open door is always before you. Quit looking at your past life and mistakes. Look unto Jesus who is the Author and Perfector of our faith. Your open door is not in the opportunity you missed ten years ago, it is not in some stuffs behind you that you can't get back. You can't gain your access by giving attention to your past life.Your past days are behind you and what God has for you is in front of you. Just pay attention.

Patience Johnson

If negative emotions have gain access into your heart, it is because you have given it attention. If memories of pain and hurt dominates your heart, it is because you gave them attention. How can a memory hurt you when it has only happened? It can only hurt you when you give it attention.

Patience Johnson

The forgiveness of God flows through me and because I am forgiven, I can forgive.

Patience Johnson

If you ask me I think the greatest breakthrough each and everyone of us need is not on finance, marriage, work, relationship, own house, car but self. The first breakthrough should start from being selfish.

Patience Johnson

Is it not funny, in the presence of an unlimited God, we will still be stucked? Sometimes faith overwrites the fact, that some people have not come to realise. Stop giving excuses and telling God what is happening around you. You have the tools.

Patience Johnson

There is no where that life problem can take you that God's presence cannot reach you. There is nothing that people can do to you that can keep God from getting to you.

Patience Johnson

You have a standing invitation to experience God's presence but you have to pay attention because attention creates access.

Patience Johnson

The reason some people do not experience God in their life is the same reason that we do not notice that something is going wrong with our marriage untill we arrive in a divorce court or that something is wrong with our child until we got a phone call from the police station . Simply put....Because we do not pay attention

Patience Johnson

I am not a Books warm, but I like Books too much.

It is possible to find the passion to read.

Lailah Gifty Akita

No one was born a reader we learn to build the habit of reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The cure to eliminate fake news is that people stop reading 140-character tweets and start reading 600-page books.

Nothing threatens a corrupt system like a free mind.

It is equally important to learn from experience and from books.

He who doesn't see the essence of books shall surely be ruled by those who find and value the real essence of books.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A happy childhood can fortify one against the ravages of life, and part of that happiness is found in books, which become our constant companions for the rest of our lives.

The world of books is the only paradise there is.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o’clock on an April morning and by nightfall more than sixty had applied for cards at the free library.

James A. Michener

The joy of reading is grace of renewal of mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

To read is to renew thy mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you wish to renew your mind, read.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I had a renewal of mind, when I begin to read.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I am thankful to my teachers who taught me how to read.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and history, too many facets of yourself may never come into being.

You can only learn to read by reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

How could you renew your mind, if you never read?

Lailah Gifty Akita

I always returned from my travels with new books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

Purple Mike promises to be an intriguing read that will teach anyone who wants to know about the highs and lows of drug addiction. Purple Mike is a legal, natural high. Enjoy reading.

Sin Mils

You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what he writes himself.

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself.

Tommy Lee

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else?

Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. The trouble is that very few of their laborious explanations stick in the memory. The mind drops them as a branch drops its overripe fruit. ... Again and again I ask impatiently, "Why concern myself with these explanations and hypotheses?" They fly hither and thither in my thought like blind birds beating the air with ineffectual wings. I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser.

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

Karl Marx

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

Malcolm X

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on books. I offered him free books, but he insisted on giving me his quarters. He walked away filled with joy as if he possessed the world's riches in his hands. In a way, he did. He left me smiling and knowing that he was wealthier than many others... (01-21-10)

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

Abraham Lincoln

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

Peter S. Jennison

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Abraham Lincoln

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Augustine of Hippo

reading books is great, reading pictures much better, especially those that shows you the future #quote

Manuel Corazzari

The secret to success is no secret. Be honest in your words, be trustworthy and share value. Most people won't tell the difference, but those that do are your readers.

Robin Sacredfire

Long ago, I stopped buying- let alone reading, books that talk about organizational success but fail to emphasize the importance of TRUST

Assegid Habtewold

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.

Dejan Stojanovic

I believe that everyone should have a dream and believe in it. Make it real, bring it to life. You'll never regret trying. Trying is what strengthens your heart and delivers courage. Once you believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.

Richard P. Denney

I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!

Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre.

Israelmore Ayivor

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely that she could have everything she wanted if she tried hard enough to get it, she never stopped trying.

Cecily von Ziegesar

Textbook intelligence is not true intelligence. It only marks a man good at memorization.

Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.

Israelmore Ayivor

All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external.

A house filled with books is source of knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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