Quotes about Book
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He's spilled the beans. He's poured out His intentions, allowing us full access. The humans put the Forbidden Book on display tables and shelves. But we actually read it; indeed we must no matter how loathsome.
— Randy Alcorn
If God really did write a book, we ought to be reading it, studying it, memorizing it, and letting it guide our lives.
— James MacDonald
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book;… in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But be warned! The book is an inconceivably impressive sharpening of the commandment 'Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain'.
— Karl Barth
For it is a dangerous book, a book filled with the apocalyptic air of judgement.
— Karl Barth
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
— George Eliot
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.
— John Donne
Now may this little Book a blessing be To those that love this little Book, and me: And may its Buyer have no cause to say, His money is but lost, or thrown away.
— John Bunyan
Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book.
— Ellen White
The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.
— Charles Spurgeon