Tag Archives: Reading

The Quality of a Preacher’s Library

The modern preacher in his study is a man with his tools. If he does not have the right tools upon his desk, he cannot produce rapid results and as high grade work as he otherwise may…. One can usually tell the quality of a preacher’s work by looking at the books in his library.

A. T. Robertson (1895-1934)


God’s People Will Be Readers

One of the great suppositions of the Bible is that God’s people will read. The existence of Scripture is in itself an argument for the necessity of reading. That God inspired a book indicates His desire that His servants should be readers.

Dinsdale Young, Messages for Home and Life, p. 61


Reading and Ministry

There is only one way to get any reading done, and that is to read. If one does not wish to read, he will not read — but if he does not, his ministry will be impoverished indeed.

Wilbur M. Smith, A Treasury of Books for Bible Study, p. 13


A Good Book

A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seeds for more fruit. It is not a picture on the wall: it is a window that invites us to wider horizons.

Warren Wiersbe


Why Read?

The supreme purpose of reading other books, is solely to increase one’s knowledge of the Book of books. To neglect the Bible for other books is fatal.

Alfred P. Gibbs, The Preacher and His Preaching, p. 338


The Purpose of a Good Book

The worst thing a book can do for a Christian is to leave him with the impression that he has received from it anything really good; the best it can do is to point the way to the Good he is seeking. The function of a good book is to stand like a signpost directing the reader toward the Truth and the Life…. The work of a good book is to incite the reader to moral action, to turn his eyes toward God and urge him forward. Beyond that it cannot go.

A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of Man, p. xv

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I Love Books

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

Samuel Davies (1723 – 1761)

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