"Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment and reason, listening to the voice within, not to the noisy babel without. Most of us possess discriminating reasoning powers. Can we use them or must we be fed by others like babes?"

-- Luther Burbank

#Book Quotes #Voice Quotes #Listening Quotes

“After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.”
“Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.”
“There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop the character of the fiancee. There's another strategy that one can employ, maybe riskier... Make the reader suffer the loss of the character in a more literal way.”
“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”
“And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.”
“There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.”
“Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a far more serious issue. Excessive pumping for irrigation to satisfy food needs today almost guarantees a decline in food production tomorrow.”
“Although age has its normal limits, it may be extended by two things-the study of history and by travel. Reading history broadens one's perception of the creation of the world, while travel extends one's field of vision.”

Source : "The Destiny of Doris: A Travel-story of Three Continents" by Julius Chambers, (Preface), 1914.

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