bible and theology on Reading

After I graduated from seminary, I stopped reading the Bible. It’s been said that for all the gain that comes from dissecting a frog, all the hands-on knowledge one amasses from cutting out the organs...

We have never lived enough. Our experience is, without fiction, too confined and too parochial. Literature extends it, making us reflect and feel about what might otherwise be too distant for feeling....

Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.