quotes tagged with 'books'

Please encourage your families, your quorum members, everyone to learn and become better educated. If formal education is not available, do not allow that to prevent you from acquiring all the knowledge you can. Under such circumstances, the best books, in a sense, can become your “university”—a classroom that is always open and admits all who apply. Strive to increase your knowledge of all that is “virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy.” Seek knowledge “by study and also by faith.” Seek with a humble spirit and contrite heart. As you apply the spiritual dimension of faith to your study—even of temporal things—you can amplify your intellectual capacity, for “if your eye be single to [God’s] glory, your whole [body] shall be filled with light, . . . and [comprehend] all things.”


In our learning, let us not neglect the fountain of revelation. The scriptures and the words of modern-day apostles and prophets are the sources of wisdom, divine knowledge, and personal revelation to help us find answers to all the challenges in life. Let us learn of Christ; let us seek out that knowledge which leads to peace, truth, and the sublime mysteries of eternity.

Author: President Dieter F. Uchtdorf , Source: http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-1117-19,00....Saved by mlsscaress in truth education revelation faith peace books challenges study seek answers virtuous praiseworthy univeristy classroom passport lovely goodreport capapcity 4 months ago[save this] [permalink]

During the difficult economic conditions of postwar Germany, opportunities for education were not as abundant as they are today. But in spite of limited options, I always felt an eagerness to learn. I remember one day, while I was out on my bike delivering laundry, I entered the home of a classmate of mine. In one of the rooms, two small desks were nestled against the wall. What a wonderful sight that was! How fortunate those children were to have desks of their own! I could imagine them sitting with open books studying their lessons and doing their homework. It seemed to me that having a desk of my own would be the most wonderful thing in the world.


I had to wait a long time before that wish was fulfilled. Years later, I got a job at a research institution that had a large library. I remember spending much of my free time in that library. There I could finally sit at a desk—by myself—and drink in the information and knowledge that books provide. How I loved to read and learn! In those days I understood firsthand the words of an old saying: Education is not so much the filling of a bucket as the lighting of a fire.

Author: President Dieter F. Uchtdorf , Source: http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-1117-19,00....Saved by mlsscaress in education books library excitement options eagerness 4 months ago[save this] [permalink]

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

Author: Abraham Lincoln, Source: unknownSaved by mlsscaress in books sight 4 months ago[save this] [permalink]

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.  I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.... What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Author: Henry David Thoreau, Source: unknownSaved by mlsscaress in behavior persuasion teach books 4 months ago[save this] [permalink]

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

Author: Charles Lamb, Source: Last Essays of Elia, 1833Saved by mlsscaress in experience reading books live 4 months ago[save this] [permalink]

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Author: Anna Quindlen, Source: "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991Saved by mlsscaress in happiness reading home books 4 months ago[save this] [permalink]

Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley’s mother counseled him: ‘Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind.

Author: President Ezra Taft Benson, Source: Saved by mlsscaress in read priorities body mind conscience focus books intellect less best tenderness taint JohnWesley 10 months ago[save this] [permalink]

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for living.

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson, Source: The Art of the Start, p. 217Saved by richardkmiller in reading living books doing 1 year ago[save this] [permalink]
What’s really needed is to recognize the need for spiritual as well as material happiness. A society that has great material prosperity but lacks spiritual purpose is really a poor society. A body without the soul is a dead body-even if it is nicely decorated with fancy ornaments.
Author: Jagad Guru, Source: http://www.jagadguruchrisbutler.comSaved by nitty080 in life science foundation books quotes lifestyle identity of jagad guru chris butler ScienceofIdentityFoundation JagadGuruChrisButler teachings booklets 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]

Recent studies on the turnover of the molecular population within a given nerve cell have indicated that, although the cells themselves retain their individuality, their macromolecular contingent is renewed about ten thousand times in a lifetime.

Author: Jagad Guru, Source: http://www.chrisbutlerspeaks.org/Saved by leen77 in satisfaction knowledge books quotes jagad guru chris butler videos socialharmony jagadguru 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]

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