Quotes about Reading
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
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