Reading Quotes - Page 4

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

Amongst the friends of Allah (Awliya), the Qur'an is considered as a love letter from Allah, which inevitably is read continuously to remind them of their Beloved.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

A finished person is a boring person.

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

Read the Bible daily. Make it part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Gather your manna fresh every morning. Choose your own seasons and hours. Do not scramble over and hurry your reading. Give your Bible the best, and not the worst, part of your time. But whatever plan you pursue, let it be a rule of your life to visit the throne of grace and the Bible every day.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. Is this deadly routine really necessary? And if so, for what? Don't hide behind reading, writing, and arithmetic as a rationale, because 2 million happy homeschoolers have surely put that banal justification to rest.

All spiritual growth comes from reading and reflection. By reading we learn what we did not know; by reflection we retain what we have learned. The conscientious reader will be more concerned to carry out what he has read than merely to acquire knowledge of it. In reading we aim at knowing, but we must put into practice what we have learned in our course of study.