Famous Book Quotes

• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Anger, Reading

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

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• Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Book, Beer

  1849 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,'Sunday'.

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• If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wisdom, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Time, Cities

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

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• Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Happiness, Clever

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• The Bible definitely is infallible, how else could it survive so many years of bad preaching?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Years, Preaching, Infallible

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• The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Bible, Religious

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• Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lions, Scripture, Heard

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• 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.

  Paul David Tripp

  Jesus, Kings, Hero

  FaceBook post by Paul David Tripp from Mar 27, 2015

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• This book (the Bible) is not hard to understand.
  It's just hard to swallow.

  Steve Lawson

  Book, Hard

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• 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.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Religious, Book, Years

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• 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.

  Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

  God, Reading, Islamic

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• 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.

  Noah Webster

  Bible, God, Education

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• The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.

  Charles Hodge

  Bible, God, Christian

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• 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.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Doors, People, Attention

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from May 10, 2015

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• Three worldly things have been made dear to me: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and reading the Qur'an.

  Uthman ibn Affan

  Reading, Naked, Three

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• The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

  Noam Chomsky

  Bible, Atheist, Book

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• Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

  Bill Johnson

  Study, Bible Study, Pointless

  Bill Johnson (2014). “Experience the Impossible: Simple Ways to Unleash Heaven's Power on Earth”, p.57, Chosen Books

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• 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.”

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Light, Church

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• It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.

  R. C. Sproul

  Spirit, Inspired, Holy Spirit

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2016

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  There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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• A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!

  Diana Gabaldon

  Book, Cry

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.5749, Dell

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• 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.

  Salman Rushdie

  Moving, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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.

  Moliere

  Book, Reading, Done

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• 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".

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Book, Interesting

  "Eddie Izzard: Stripped". Documentary, Comedy, 2009.

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