"The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read." --Jacques Ellul
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." --Mark Twain
"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you." --Mortimer J. Adler
John Piper, pastor and author, makes the discipline of reading sound doable. He writes:
"Suppose that you read slowly, say about 250 words a minute (as I do). This means that in twenty minutes you can read about five thousand words. An average book has about four hundred thousand words to a page. So you could read about twelve-and-a-half pages in twenty minutes. Suppose you discipline yourself to read a certain author or topic twenty minutes a day, six days a week, for a year. That would be 312 times 12.5 pages for a total of 3,900 pages. Assume that an average book is 250 pages long. This means you could read fifteen books like that in one year." (from--Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, pp. 66-67)
Pick some good books, set aside 20 minutes a day, and start developing your mind and feeding your soul. READ!
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