Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Prayer is the most important thing you can do as a father.

Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

Prayer exercises your willpower and gives God authority to work in your life.

We need more Christians for whom prayer is the first resort, not the last.

The secret of reaching men is to know the secret of reaching God.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.

Reading for me, is spending time with a friend.