How to Read Slowly Quotes

“I am most interested in encouraging Christians to think and read well. Christians, of all people, should reflect the mind of their Maker. Learning to read well is a step toward loving God with your mind. It is a leap toward thinking God’s thoughts after Him.”
― James W. Sire, How to Read Slowly: Reading for Comprehension

“Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on…Each of us when we read a great piece of literature is a little more human than befor”
― James W. Sire, How to Read Slowly: Reading for Comprehension

“Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own.”
― James W. Sire, How to Read Slowly: Reading for Comprehension

“When writers write they do so from the perspective of their own world view. What they presuppose about themselves, God, the good life and the validity of human knowledge governs both what they say and how they say it. That is why reading with world views in mind (your own and that of the author) will help you understand not only what is written in the lines but what is written between the lines—that is, what is presupposed before a pen ever reaches the page.”
― James W. Sire, How to Read Slowly: Reading for Comprehension

“Christians, of all people, should reflect the mind of their Maker. Learning to read well is a step toward loving God with your mind. It is a leap toward thinking God’s thoughts after him.”
― James W. Sire, How to Read Slowly: Reading for Comprehension

“One thing the Bible does not do: it does not denigrate the mind. The Bible is not anti-intellectual. Rather it gives the reason why all of us know what we know, why we can think with some degree of accuracy, and why we fail to think with complete accuracy.”
― James W. Sire, How to Read Slowly: Reading for Comprehension