Quotes About Reading

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended.

The whole idea of the testing effect is that you learn more by testing yourself than by rereading. Well, it's very hard to get students to do that because they've been trained for so long to keep reading and reading the book.

rising familiarity with a text and fluency in reading it can create an illusion of mastery.

In another surprise, when letters are omitted from words in a text, requiring the reader to supply them, reading is slowed, and retention improves.

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

There are two types of people in this world; those that sing in the shower and those that read in the bath

The first question we should ask about what we are reading is not "How does this apply to me?" Rather, it is "What is this passage saying in the context of the book I am reading, and how would it have been heard in the ancient world?

The need to explain Jesus as both surprise ending and deeply connected to Israel's story drove the Gospel writers to do some creative reading. Sticking to what the Bible says wasn't their goal. Talking about Jesus was.

They were writing and reading these stories to understand their own relationship with God.

To see what Paul sees, Christians today are summoned to join Paul: the reality of Jesus demands that the Old Testament be read not by the book, but against the grain.

Literalism is a hermeneutical decision (often implicit) stemming from the belief that God's Word requires a literal reading.

a literal reading of Genesis is not the firmly settled default position of true faith to which one can "hold firm" or from which one "strays." Literalism is a hermeneutical decision (often implicit) stemming from the belief that God's Word requires a literal reading.

Rulebook Bible reading" shortchanges the depth and raw reality of Israel's own journey of faith in God.

In reading the Bible we are watching the spiritual journeys of people long ago.

These factors may combine to make disorganized infants become keen readers of the caregiver's mind under certain circumstances but, we suggest, poor readers of their own mental states.

When we are reading we become immersed in stories both on an intellectual and emotional level and when we come back to our own skins, we feel a little changed'.

Reading snow is like listening to music. To describe what you've read is like explaining music in writing.

Back then I could not understand one word of what I read. Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot understand what you are reading you can get something from books.

He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.

It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this instruction and these statutes.

when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel.

Afterward, Joshua read aloud all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.

Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.