All Quotes By Tag: Reading

“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don’t undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.”

“On my website there’s a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: “The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.” I’ve always found that inspiring because the written word, as an art form, is unlike any other: movies, TV, music, they’re shared experiences, but books aren’t like that. The relationship between a writer and a reader is utterly unique to those two individuals. The world that forms in your head as you read a book will be slightly different to that experienced by every other reader. Anywhere. Ever. Reading is very personal, a communication from one mind to another, something which can’t be exactly copied, or replicated, or directly shared. If I read the work of, say, one of the great Victorian novelists, it’s like a gift from the past, a momentary connection to another’s thoughts. Their ideas are down on paper, to be picked up by me, over a century later. Writers can speak individually to readers across a year, or ten years, or a thousand. That’s why I love books.”

“Before there were books, we read each other.”

“Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.”

“Are you the fruit of redemption? If yes, then make a delightful noise unto Him.”

“You don’t need to go running from pillar to post looking for what God looks like.”

“Words are directed to your personalities namely; – God, your hearers, devil and yourself.”

“Everyone that enters through Him is secured and the person shall find pastures for himself. Jesus really cares!”

“The Prince came to give life unto those whose lives were almost being snuffed out by the devil via the cares of this world.”

“Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence.”

“God comes down in the evenings to chat with man, enjoy man’s company and find out how man faired in the course of the day.”

“God is not a thief. That which steals, kills and destroys is the devil – not God!”

“The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial sections, things, that is, which the spirit can assimilate to itself. After which it matters not that the actions, the feelings of this new order of creatures appear to us in the guise of truth, since we have made them our own, since it is in ourselves that they are happening, that they are holding in thrall, while we turn over, feverishly, the pages of the book, our quickened breath and staring eyes. And once the novelist has brought us to that state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied ten-fold, into which his book comes to disturb us as might a dream, but a dream more lucid, and of a more lasting impression than those which come to us in sleep; why, then, for the space of an hour he sets free within us all the joys and sorrows in the world, a few of which, only, we should have to spend years of our actual life in getting to know, and the keenest, the most intense of which would never have been revealed to us because the slow course of their development stops our perception of them.”

“The choice is yours. Don’t let your pronouncements destroy your destiny rather let them build your future up!”

“We cannot prevail by our own might or strength, we need to plug on to the source of our strength so that we will remain resourceful always.”