Quotes about Reading
The more you read Scripture, the more you actually talk to God rather than think about fear.
- Edward Welch
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.
- Gordon Hinckley
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
- John Eldredge
I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
- Zig Ziglar
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
- Will Rogers
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
- Margaret Atwood
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best.
- Richard Baxter
Make careful choice of the books which you read. Let the Holy Scriptures ever have the pre-eminence; and next [to] them the solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the Scriptures.
- Richard Baxter
When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.
- Kathleen Norris
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
- Kathleen Norris
Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.
- David Brainerd