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#29 List up to 5 books that have inspired and why
Books That Have Inspired Me
Why?
The first book I can ever recall reading was the King James version of the Bible. Then it would only be parts of it. While I recall skimming the entire book, certain passages helped me understand who I was as a boy.
In Junior High School, we had an extensive library at our disposal. There was one section that drew me like a moth to the flame. Biographies, autobiographies, and the Horatio Alger series of motivational books kept me going for nearly the entire eighth grade. They were all on one wall of the library. I read (consumed) every one of them. The one overriding lesson included in mind, body, spirit, and heart:
“If someone else can accomplish great things, even though many of them came from a position of lacking, then I can as well. “ — Horatio Alger, Social experiment
At the ripe old age of twenty-two, missionaries found my family and me. Ultimately, I felt called to minister and missionary myself. By the time I’d reached my mid-forties, I had read the Bible over twenty times. It did then, and as it still does now, affect my life.
