Quotes About Reading

Listening to sermons and reading the Bible provide information about Jesus, but this is not the same as a personal meeting of him in the events of his life.

It was one of those bookstores that barely exist anymore in our age of the antiseptic chain store, replete with the smell of the musty pages and the sense that reading itself is, at its heart, a countercultural act.

Real readers poison themselves with words. They close each book as though climbing, reborn, from a tomb.

When I read, the words on the page replace the voice in my head and I cease, for a little while, to be me, or at least to be so painfully aware of being me.

Influencers" succeed in a culture when the masses stop reading and thinking for themselves.

Reading, after all, is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction, a matter of engagement in a society that seems to want nothing more that for us to disengage.

Think about it: when we read, we soul travel, in the sense that we join, or enter, the consciousness of another human. We empathize—we have to—because our experience is enlarged.

When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read.

When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.

The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.

Don't say God is silent when your Bible is closed. Open it and read it. God will speak.

The clarity of Scripture means that the Bible is written in such a way that its teachings are able to be understood by all who will read it seeking God's help and being willing to follow it.

The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

My God, to read without joy is stupid.

Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God.

In books I converse with men, in the Bible I converse with God.

God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books that hadn't been checked out in 30 years, so I didn't feel too bad.

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.

I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

Boredom is why God invented books.