John Quincy Adams - To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of be...

John Quincy Adams Zitate

To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.

John Quincy Adams

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Die Bibel zu lesen ist von sich aus eine lobenswerte Tätigkeit und kann kaum versagen, eine nützliche Zeitanwendung zu sein; Aber die Gewohnheit, über das, was Sie gelesen haben, nachzudenken, ist ebenso wichtig wie das Lesen selbst, um ihm die volle Wirksamkeit zu verleihen, für die es empfänglich ist.

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