Denis Parsons Burkitt famous quotes

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  • I really wished he hadn't made me hate to read the Bible. Having it shoved down my throat all my life had made me bitter toward reading it. I believed it, but my dad had used it to his benefit too many times and ignored the parts in there that would point out his wrongs. Like judging Beau without even knowing him. That was in the Bible too.

  • 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.

  • If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

  • When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

  • I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.

  • A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.

  • I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

  • You can endure change by pondering His permanence.

  • When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.

  • Each match I approach like a new one. The work is so immense that you don't have time to sit and ponder.