James Merritt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.
-- James Merritt

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There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition
Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.
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.
Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
The Almighty has His own purposes.
Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis ...
Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

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