American scholar Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No matter how much a man may study, reflect and meditate on all the books in the world, he is nothing more than a…

— Denis Diderot

“Consecutive reading of biblical books forces everyone who wants to hear to put himself, or to allow himself to be found, where God has…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has…

— Haruki Murakami

“For him books are not like men, who impose themselves and burden him with their chatter, and of whom it is hard to be…

— Stefan Zweig

“Many go to great lengths to discover God's will or to hear His voice, yet we only need to open His Book.”

— Dillon Burroughs

“The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try…

— Pat Conroy

“It is refreshing, and salutary, to study the poise and quietness of Christ. His task and responsibility might well have driven a man out…

— Anonymous

“Reading is of great service towards procuring recollection in any one who proceeds in this way; and it is even necessary for him, however…

— St. Teresa Of Avila

“The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story…

— Shannon L. Alder

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

“I, for my share, cannot understand," continued she, "how men have made themselves believe that God speaks to us through books and histories. The…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The objectivity of the narrator is a modern invention, we need only reflect that our Lord God didn’t want it in his book.”

— José Saramago