John Piper Quotes

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

Reading is more important than writing.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

I read incessantly, searching for the things that might move me.

Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

Reading is very good. And you can quote me!

And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

We live for books.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.