Tag Archives: Reading
Pastor, What Are You Reading?
Every third book you read should be from outside your own (provincial) century.
A Leader Is a Reader
I have yet to meet a leader who is growing in personal passion for God and godliness, and effectiveness in pastoral ministry and preaching, who doesn’t have a voracious appetite for 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
I Love Books
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.
Life Is Worship 