“I took Eugene Sue's Arthur from the reading-room. It's indescribable, enough to make you vomit. You have to read this to realize the pitifulness of money, success, and the public. Literature has become consumptive. It spits and slobbers, covers its blisters with salve and sticking-plaster, and has grown bald from too much hair-slicking. It would take Christ of art to cure this leper.” WritingArtEnoughReadingLiteratureChristRealizingRoomsToo MuchHairCuresSpitArthurIndescribableLeperPlastersBlistersReading Room Author:Gustave Flaubert
“The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.” ThinkingWorldLittlesLife IsOrderFallCultureReadingChristChurchActingSonDutyHigherCreaturesEssentialsDown AndClubsImprovementLiftsBordersMutualMistakenMajestyFalling DownFreemanChurch Of ChristChaucerSpenser Author:Edward Everett Hale
“Let it be a settled principle in our minds, in reading the Bible, that Christ is the central sun of the whole book. So long as we keep Him in view, we shall never greatly err in our search for spiritual knowledge. Once losing sight of Christ, we shall find the whole Bible dark and full of difficulty.” MindLongBookWholeSpiritualReadingChristDarkViewsPrinciplesSunLosingSightDifficultySpiritual KnowledgeReading The Bible Book:Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke
“When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.” KnowsDoeMomentsReadingJesusChristPrayerJesus ChristForgivingThat MomentSaviorLiving My LifeRelationship With GodPersonal RelationshipsBible ReadingFaith In JesusPersonal Relationship With God Author:Anne Graham Lotz
“I was reading an interview with Keith Richards in a magazine and in the interview Keith Richards intimated that kids should not do drugs. Keith Richards! Says that kids should not do drugs! Keith, we can't do any more drugs because you already f-king did them all, alright? There's none left! We have to wait 'til you die and smoke your ashes! Jesus Christ! Talk about the pot and the f-kin' kettle.” ShouldKidsDiesReadingJesusLeftWaitingChristKingsDrugJesus ChristMagazinesSmokeInterviewsPotAshesAlrightKeithKettles Author:Denis Leary