Books Quote by Jeanette Winter Download Open image “In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammed was 'Read.” — Jeanette Winter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Firsts Said
“nodded. “The Prophet lived about five hundred years after Jesus. Unlike the Bible, which is the collected writings of many authors over many centuries,… — Jeffrey Small Copy Share Image
You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on. — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the arabic words… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I see the Koran very much as an outsider. It stands in the great prophetic tradition of trying to return people to the basic… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The Koran is a not 'a product of Muhammad or even of Arabia,' but a collection of earlier Judeo-Christian liturgical materials stitched together to… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
“We don't have any option. We are dependent on these mullahs to learn the Quran," he said. "But you just use him to learn… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“for the last half of the Koran recited by Mohammed, the god of Islam was commanding Muslims to fight the unbelievers (the Kuffar), to… — Peter Mcloughlin Copy Share Image
A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“However, not all Muslims have always believed that the Koran is eternal and uncreated—a fact that has important implications for modern-day hopes for the… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free. — Jeanette Winter Copy Share Image
“Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.” — Jeanette Winter Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
