Quotes about Reading
Drink deeply from good books.
— John Wooden
I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
— JC Ryle
Those of us we have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors.
— CS Lewis
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
— Cicero
To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind
— Henry Ward Beecher
The Bible wasn't meant to be read; it was meant to be prayed. Start reading, and God will start speaking. And that's when you need to stop reading and start praying.
— Mark Batterson
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
— Mark Twain
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
— Mark Twain
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
— Mark Twain
One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
— Martin Luther
One becomes a theologian by living, by dying, and by being damned, not by understanding, reading, and speculation.
— Martin Luther
Satan has frightened men from reading the sacred writings, and has rendered Holy Scriptures contemptible, so as to ensure his poisonous philosophy to prevail in the church.
— Martin Luther