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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.
I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.
We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.
The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.
I don't think Trump reads. If he does, my guess is he's reading autobiographies of ... I wonder if he's read Mein Kampf.
I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research.
It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.
Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations.
We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.
Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.
Early on, people invested in me because of my letters and then, somehow, after they invested, they stopped reading them.
I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.
Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading.
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.
Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum.
what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.
I know the action in the street is excitin' But Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’ I’ve been readin’ ‘n writin’.
Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading.
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented: That is not even wrong.
He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.
I was meeting a lot of directors and reading scripts, and I was like, "Well, I'd love to play this part," but I couldn't.
I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.
I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.
I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.
Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.
Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.
I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading anyway.
I was just working on music and reading. It was relaxing. I would just stay up so late for no reason because I was bored.
Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading.
My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in.
Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read.
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.