“our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read”

“Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.”

“College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.”

“I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.”

“How we remember changes how we have lived.
Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.”

“The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.”

“I would like to be able with authority to present the case for believing in God, but I would far rather be an authoritative argument for believing in God. The saints are the best argument for Christianity. They have the highest authority in the world for they coerce us and yet our coercion is a willing one. They drive us along the way which in our best moments we want to go. When we read their lives, and even more when we touch their lives with our own in day-to-day living, we meet Christianity’s unanswerable argument. We know, with an authority nothing can resist or overcome, that Christianity changes lives and that if Jesus Christ were given a chance he would change the world.”

“I meet people who tell me things like, ‘I read your book in two days’. Please don’t do that. These things take me years to write. Slow down. Everything you read, slow down. Reading is our great act of resistance in this age of speed and carelessness.”

“If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?”

“We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.”