Reading Quotes

4849 quotes by 2815 authors

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text.… — David Lloyd-Jones
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. — Guy Davenport
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. — Moses Hadas
When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal… — Smith Wigglesworth
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… — David Brainerd
The Bible does say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Preaching, music, the reading of the Word-these things are… — Jim Cymbala
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. — Elizabeth Drew
When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive look at just… — Aberjhani
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like… — Rick Warren
among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ...… — Thomas Jefferson
No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. — Unknown Author
A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena,… — Henry Ward Beecher
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. — Hugh Mackay
A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. — Abraham Lincoln
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests… — A. C. Benson
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. — Arthur Helps
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. — Austin Phelps
We read to know we are not alone. — C.S. Lewis
The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material. — Charles Clarke

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