Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament.

It is important to learn to understand in a historical text, a text from the past, the living Word of God, that is, to enter into prayer and thus read Sacred Scripture as a conversation with God.

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

Take up, read! Take up, read!

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

Qui nescit Scripturas, nescit Dei virtutem, ejusque sapientiam. Ignoratio Scripturarum ignoratio Christi est. Quem ignora as Escrituras ignora o poder e a sabedoria de Deus. A ignorância das Escrituras é ignorância de Cristo.

An angel can illume the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

God chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.

The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths.

The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.