"Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong."

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Source : Quoted in Listener, 14 Dec. 1939 See Calonne 1; Santayana 14; Trollope 3

Fridtjof Nansen

“I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.”

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“Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.”
“My mom cooked the same food every day - tortillas, beans and meat. If it was enchiladas, it was - tortillas, beans and meat. If it was burritos, it was still - tortillas, beans and meat.”
“... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.”
“Being unashamedly Muslim while excelling in whatever you do is of the greatest forms of Dawah.”
“If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made.”
“For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod Campbell and based upon his reading of the letter to the Hebrews in particular, is that Christ offers up his life and death as a penitential act on our behalf, rather than as a punishment in our stead.”
“Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings.”

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