Quotes about Reading
Reading is of great service towards procuring recollection in any one who proceeds in this way; and it is even necessary for him, however little it may be that he reads, if only as a substitute for the mental prayer which is beyond his reach.
- Teresa of Avila
My fondness for good books was my salvation.
- Teresa of Avila
I continue to do something I've done since I was 18, and that is read a chapter of Proverbs every day as part of my daily devotion. I still maintain that.
- Mike Huckabee
I didn't have any brothers or sisters, so I did a lot of stuff where I entertained myself playing games, reading a lot, a lot of fantasy novel stuff.
- Bill Bailey
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.
- George Bernard Shaw
There was no better way to understand life than to live it—if not through your own life, then through another's. There was once a man who owned a field. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Not to read was to turn your back on the wisest minds.
- Ted Dekker
I've gotten into doing electronic books and audiobooks, so I have an iPad. I still love reading a real book, but when you travel, it's better than carrying around a bunch of books.
- Jim James
The surest way to stop growing is to stop reading.
- Fred Craddock
Spiritual reading, therefore, is slow, deliberate, meditative reading in which we allow the words to penetrate our heart and question our spirit.
- Henri Nouwen
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books which are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.
- Henry David Thoreau
Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature and, through her, God.
- Henry David Thoreau