Quotes about Reading

Our library isn't very extensive, said Anne, but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph.

Prose, rightly written and read, is sometimes as beautiful as poetry.

A true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him. His own ideas are only call'd forth by what he reads, and the vibrations within, so entirely correspond with those excited, 'tis like reading himself and not the book .

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! - take them out of this book, for instance, - you might as well take the book along with them

The Bible was meant to be read by those in love. It's sad when it's not.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.

Consecutive reading of biblical books forces everyone who wants to hear to put himself, or to allow himself to be found, where God has acted once and for all for the salvation of men.

In family devotions it is best that the various members thereof undertake the consecutive reading in turn. When this is done it will soon become apparent that it is not easy to read the Bible aloud for others. The more artless, the more objective, the more humble one's attitude toward the material is, the better will the reading accord with the subject.

Study to practice in life that which the Lord commands, and then be you assured that you shall never hear nor read the same without fruit.