The ‘means of grace’ are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord’s Supper.
Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m drying my hair. I read in the bath. I read when I’m sitting in the bathroom. Pretty much anywhere I can do the job one-handed, I read.
Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading.
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you’re not.
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.
I was just reading about the new Lindsay Lohan diet, which is all liquid. 80 proof.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.
The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.
One of the best ways to expand his horizon is through a regular reading program.
Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.
This is what I love about novels – both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.