The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
In reading our newspapers today, we can see how God is setting the table, getting everything in order, preparing the way for Christ to return.
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Reading can take you places you have never been before.
Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.
You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.
You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.
Children’s reading and children’s thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.
I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.
Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don’t realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.
In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.
Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.
I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.
Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance.
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.