Reading

“We have to deconstruct the idea that we have to fix on one way of reading the Bible.”

“Reading is to the Mind, what Exercise is to the Body.”

“I owe everything to the mechanical education I received from that American magazine.”

“Našel jsem tu Válku s mloky. K Čapkovi jsem měl vždycky blízko.”

“My chief pleasure has been books.”

“The link between the two is that you have to be very careful with the text, and that you can respond to a text in various ways.”

“經以明道，以求道者不必空執義理求之也。但當正文字，辨音讀，釋訓詁，通傳注，則義理自見，而道在其中矣。”

“Amidst that large and valuable collection of books, I found an inexhaustible source of information and entertainment.”

“فإن بيتا بغير كتب هو بيت بغير فكر.. أى بيت بلا روح، والمقابر هو المكان الوحيد الذى يخلو من الكتب.”

“Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.”

“لستُ أهوى القراءةَ لأكتبَ، ولا أهوى القراءةَ لأزدادَ عُمُرًا في تقديرِ الحسابِ، وإنما أهوى القراءةَ؛ لأنَّ عندي حياةً واحدةً في هذه الدنيا وحياةً واحدةً لا تكفيني.”

“On the Last Day God will not question us on the opinions of the commentators and on how they understood the Koran, but he will question us on his Book which he sent down to guide and instruct us.”

“They had a good library at the railway workshops and so I discovered a new world.”

“I cannot live without books; but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.”

“Dẫu có bạc vàng trăm vạn lạng / Không bằng kinh sử một vài pho”

“Kẻ sĩ đi học phải bỏ lối học tầm chương trích cú mà theo đuổi việc học rộng biết nhiều.”

“Pourquoi les libraires ne cessent-ils de vouloir des préfaces, et pourquoi les lecteurs ont-ils cessé de les lire ?”

“Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.”

“I started reading at the age of four, and at the age of eight began composing poems.”

“Indeed, ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.”