Quotes about Reading
I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
— Zig Ziglar
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
— Will Rogers
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
— Margaret Atwood
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best.
— Richard Baxter
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