Quotes about Reading
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
- John of the Cross
Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.
- St. Cyprian
Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading.
- St. Isidore of Seville
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
- John of the Cross
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
- Kathleen Norris
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
- JC Ryle
Wenn man Bücher bei sich trug, waren Handgreiflichkeiten zu vermeiden. Er trug immer Bücher bei sich.
- Elias Canetti
The only wrong way to read the Bible is to not read it at all.
- Elizabeth George
God's Word is written for you and to you, but it won't help unless you read it.
- Elizabeth George
I just love to look at cookbooks, it's almost like they're comic books for me. I can't look at them before bed; it gets me too excited.
- Katie Lee
I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all.
- Olga Tokarczuk
I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
- Elie Wiesel